On the Road: Early “Live” Moog Modular Artists

On the Road: Early “Live” Moog Modular Artists

Moog Modular Historian Thom Holmes Explores Early “Live” Moog Modular Artists (1965-1970) We stray from Moog recordings for this edition of the blog to document some of the early pioneers of live Moog Modular performance. While digging through many of the...
Thom Holmes: Indexing the Moog Modular from 1967-1970

Thom Holmes: Indexing the Moog Modular from 1967-1970

The Moog Modular 1967–1970: An Index* Tabulating Leading Indicators of Early Moog Influence I want to look back to four years that changed electronic music history. The years were 1967 to 1970, the first years during which Bob Moog’s Modular Synthesizer were widely...
Moog: A History in Recordings—The First Moog Synthesizer Recordings

Moog: A History in Recordings—The First Moog Synthesizer Recordings

At first, Bob Moog didn’t think of his synthesizer as a total solution for the musician. He once famously said, “There was never a notion that a synthesizer would be used by itself for anything.” He pictured it as another piece of equipment in the traditional electronic music studio.

Countryman’s “Moog-Tastic” Pays Tribute

Moog-Tastic: A Tribute to Moog Instruments, Albums and Pioneers By Dana Countryman I am absolutely delighted to donate 20 copies of Moog-Tastic!, my new CD tribute to the many Moog synthesizer albums that inspired me when I was young,  to the Bob Moog Foundation. It...