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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgJ55PJJHnw

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

Sadly, this clip misses the last 3 seconds: Mickey turns to the camera and mugs 
"Groovy!"

Paul S.

I love this song! I was a senior in high school when it came out and  
I listened to it endlessly. I fell in love with the synthesizer sound  
too.

skw

On Aug 13, 2006, at 1:06 AM, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgJ55PJJHnw
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> I saw this video over at a friends house when I was 12 years old.  
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> camera and mugs
> "Groovy!"
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> Paul S.
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You didn't show that to your kids, did you?  My grandson wanted to
know why it didn't make more sound.  

Chub - about the same age

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...> wrote:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgJ55PJJHnw
> 
> I saw this video over at a friends house when I was 12 years old.
Yep, this is 
> what got me going.
> 
> Sadly, this clip misses the last 3 seconds: Mickey turns to the
camera and mugs 

> "Groovy!"
> 
> Paul S.
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> 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

Yup, I saw that when it first came out. Confirms what I thought - that
Paul and I are roughly the same age.

I was already aware of moogs by then though - my dad, who's a pretty
well known astronomer, got an invite by Roger Mcguinn to "help" him
with some lyrics for some sci-fi based songs he was writing (CTA-102
and another come to mind). Apparently from my dads vague recounting of
the evening, there were some mood alterations involved, but he did go
on and on about the moog synthesizer he'd gotten to play with that
evening. He spent a long time describing how it worked, and the theory
behind it, and it all sounded fabulous to my 10 or 11 year old brain.
A few years later I discovered that Robert Moog lived and worked right
in the same town we were living in, and that there was this band in
town called Mother Mallards Portable Masterpiece Company that used 3
of the synths. I started going to all their concerts, but never
actually got any hands on time with a synth until going off to
college.

On 8/13/06, Paul Schreiber <synth1@...> wrote:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgJ55PJJHnw
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>  I saw this video over at a friends house when I was 12 years old. Yep, this
> is
>  what got me going.
>
>  Sadly, this clip misses the last 3 seconds: Mickey turns to the camera and
> mugs
>  "Groovy!"
>
>  Paul S.
>

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