MOTM

> I saw this video over at a friends house when I was 12 years 
> old. Yep, this is what got me going.

Understandably.

Let's see... I think I first became aware of synthesizers while listening to
the soundtrack album for "Bugsy Malone" (a gangster movie in which the
entire cast were children, including rather young Scott Baio and Jodie
Foster). I would have been around 12 at the time also. The music was by Paul
Williams, and "Moog" was listed as one of the instruments. A few years later
I discovered Jean-Michel Jarre, Synergy, TD, Wendy Carlos, etc.

However, there was one specific photo that caused me to neeeeeeed a modular
synthesizer. It ran in Keyboard magazine and is reproduced here:
http://www.modularsynth.co.uk/images/sleeves/steve_porcaro_polyfusion.gif
I saw that and something clicked in my brain. That was the beginning of the
end.

--Adam