Bob Moog is the reason I became an EE as well.
I met Bob in the early 70s. Bob was in Cincinnati promoting the Minimoog.
I had purchased the first one in town, so I got to meet him.
I could hardly speak, but Bob was gracious as he always was.
I was entralled with the idea of a career where electronics design
engineering and music could be combined.
One of my senior projects involved adding aftertouch to my Minimoog. (This
was in the late 70s before midi, etc.)
I too later ran into him at a couple of AES conventions.
When I think of the number of people whose lives he touched ...
He will be missed, but his memory will live on in every musical piece,
played on any synthesizer.
Paul H.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
To: "MOTM litserv" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 11:29 PM
Subject: [motm] Update...Bob Moog dies
> Bob died around 2PM today from a large inoperable brain tumor at age 71.
> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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).
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> My biggest "Moog highlight" though was at my second NAMM show, and there
> was
> this really big, noisy and over-crowded 'reception' in a tent. The place
> was
> absolutely jammed, and I wandered by myself way off to the far corner by
> this
> potted plant and there were 4 chairs empty. I sat in one, grabbed a beer,
> and
> PLOP, here sits Bob Moog. Now, his booth was 20 feet from mine, and we
> waved at
> each other but I never really talked to him that much. We chatted for like
> 20
> seconds, and then here comes Roger Powell, Tom Oberheim and Dave Smith.
> Here are
> all these famous synth designers and one of the best rock keyboard players
> ever
> and ∗ME∗ (the former chemistry nerd that shot Estes rockets) sitting
> around and
> chatting.
>
> I wish Bob's family well and hope Big Briar lives on.
>
> Paul S.
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