[sdiy] Moog or moog

[Richard Wentk]

At 23:34 25/08/2005, J.D. McEachin wrote:
>At 05:24 PM 8/25/2005 -0400, Joseph Palermo wrote:
> >Which is the correct way to say it, I've never been to sure. Is it like
> >go or goo
>
> From the man himself:
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4180664.stm
>
>How are you spelling that?
>
><picture> Dr Moog, in vogue, performing in 1980
>
>In death, as in life, when people spoke about Robert Moog, his name 
>sounded like the noise a cow makes.
>
>For a man who did so much to broaden the range of sounds available to the 
>human ear - from prog rock to electronica - it might have been something 
>of an irony that people couldn't get his name right.

Do you think the whole synth and noise thing was some kind of psychological 
compensation, perhaps? :)

Richard (who has an unpronounceable surname too - hmmm...)