Moog synthesizer

Oh, do you know what? I caught a little video on Instagram the other day of Keith from Emerson Lake and Palmer.

And he was playing with his traditional Moog, the big Moog with all of the wires in it.

And he was explaining what all of the different things were doing.

And you just think what an absolute nightmare that would have been for anybody that was a stage tech back in the day.

I'd say this to me is more G-Funky.

I've got it like, is this the best G-Funk beat ever? I think for me, for it to properly qualify as G-Funk, it has to have like a Moog bass sound.

Moog bass, but more sawtooth kind of.

Yeah, the sawtooth-y synth,

heavy kind of buzzy synth bass, to me, is the essence of G-Funk.

That's how you start a fucking album,

right? That was none other than Robert Moog, the creator of the Moog synthesizer.

Moog.

Moog, moog, whatever.

It matters.

Helping to play that opening bass line with production assistant, no relation to Paul, John Simon.

Are you going to make use of a keyboard player on the road, or are it just going to be the three of you?

Dusty is whipping up on a memory Moog by Moog Synthesizers, and it's great fun.

He's handling the low end.

I see.

So they see nobody knows to this, I think, do they say who Disco Kid refers to? But they seem to have understood that they were sort of in a disco context.

Sun Ra plays Moog and Rhodes mainly and other kind of electric instruments.

keyboards on it.

And overall, yeah, it's this really interesting record.

We're in his studio right now.

His Moog.

John is so awesome, man.

And you guys will probably see him on Worship Keys Podcast.

And there was this documentary out of Canada that came out around that time called I Dream of Wires, basically kind of like about the synthesizer.

And just as a footnote, they had mentioned that really Moog – Synthesizers wouldn't have necessarily gotten off the ground had it not been for a very early investment from the University of Toronto for their electronic music studio.

And that was just like a kind of a bombshell for me because I didn't know that they had one of the first electronic music studios in the country, but then also that they had such a close relationship to Bob Moak.

So that led me down... basically pitching and writing an article called The Nation of Tinkerers for Thump about that specific studio and its history.

And the more that I researched it, the more, as I sort of say in the introduction, like there's this kind of Canada-sized hole that sort of emerges in the knowledge, right? Like some people might talk about Bruce Hack.

Sometimes they'll talk about Hewlett-Cain.

and his influence on Bob Moog, but not really any kind of comprehensive looking at the timeline and how so many of the things that happened here were connected to the global movements.

So that kind of made it clear to me that this was a sort of necessary project.

And I definitely was struck, you know, I, if you had asked me like, what was your earliest musical memory? Like, you know, I would say for this, I was, you know, I mentioned last time that my parents were really into classical music, but one of the records that they had that I really gravitated towards was Switched On Bach, you know, by Wendy Carlos.

They did all those Moog stuff.

And that kind of led me into, you know, sort of, as I got older, I had a phase where I was digging some of the prog rock bands.

And, you know, with these really kind of virtuoso, these people are approaching a synthesizer as like a keyboard instrument.