[sdiy] Rest In Peace Bob

[Paul Schreiber]

The Moog modular/MiniMoog was the (not "a", 'THE') reason I switched from being 
a
chemistry/biology/physics nerd to an EE geek. Bob was always very nice and
polite to me, last NAMM I attended (2003) he actually wandered over to my booth
and asked to borrow my soldering iron.

The first time I met him was in 1983 at the AES convention (Audio Engineering
Society). The room wasn't that crowded, but I was towards the back. I was
reading the program when somebody sat next to me (which was sort of odd, there
were lots of empty chairs) and I look up and damn near had a heart attack. Even
though I was on the Tandy MG-1 project, I never dealt with Bob, it was David 'Mr
PolyMoog' Luce. He probably thought I was ill because I was shaking like a leaf
and when I tried to speak I croaked like a frog. But he was very nice and
polite, considering just how many times people like me babble on and on to him
(20 years later at NAMM, there were over 150 people waiting in line babbling the
SAME STUFF).

As a side note, at that same AES I was leaving the bathroom, turning a corner
out into the main exhibit hall, and Wendy Carlos and Dominic Molano (that big
tall dude that was editor of Keyboard, he's like 6' 10") literally ran smack
into me, trying to run from a pack of synth geeks (they went "out of bounds"
back behind the exhibits, pretty funny).