Bob's Body Leaves Us [Bob Moog dead at 71 of brain cancer]

[truthisfreedom]

no mainstream articles or obituaries yet, but Bob Moog's website has this very sad announcement which will be of great significance to anyone who has ever had an interest in electronic music and/or synthesizers:

http://www.moogmusic.com

Bob's Body Leaves Us

Photo of Bob at work in Asheville
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — August 21, 2005 — Bob died this afternoon at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) in late April 2005. He had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat the disease. He is survived by his wife, Ileana, his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog, and Miranda Richmond; and the mother of his children, Shirleigh Moog.

Bob was warm and outgoing. He enjoyed meeting people from all over the world. He especially appreciated what Ileana referred to as "the magical connection" between music-makers and their instruments.

No public memorial is planned. Fans and friends can direct their sympathies or remembrances to www.caringbridge.com/visit/bobmoog.

Bob's family has established The Bob Moog Foundation dedicated to the Advancement of Electronic Music in his memory. Many of his longtime collaborators including musicians, engineers and educators have agreed to sit on its executive board including David Borden, Wendy Carlos, Joel Chadabpe, John Eaton, David Mash, and Rick Wakeman. For more information about the foundation, contact Matthew Moog at mattmoog at yahoo.com.

We'll miss you Bob.

[tuvor]

1. He'll be missed.

So many contributions to pop culture.

RIP

[tridim]

2. Anyone who can pull this out of his head..

Gets my respect. RIP Moog.

[stlsaxman]

13. That synth on the right would make a fitting headstone...

just try and find a carver that would attempt it!


Thanks for everything, Mr. Moog!

[benburch]

3. Damn.

By weird coincidence I was listening to Switched On Bach earlier today.

[Hissyspit]

4. He got his movie (documentary) right before he died.

Just like Ray Charles.

[truthisfreedom]

6. it's a goofy little movie but it's interesting, nonetheless.

i wish it would have been done more professionally.

[thebigidea]

5. damn! I just used one of his lovely gizmos tonight...

to thoroughly mangle "I'm the Urban Spaceman" -

http://www.terminalproduct.com/suburbanspaceman.mp3

not quite the sendoff Bob deserves, but it was fun twiddling those knobs anyway. RIP, mista moog. You were one of the good ones.

[truthisfreedom]

7. that's great!

i knew him personally, not well, but we met on 4 occasions at the NAMM show. it's especially sad for my employees and myself.

[Gregorian]

16. OMG, that is wonderful? Yes!

I swear it sounds like you borrowed the guitar from The Shags. :)

Encore!


PS- by bob.

[thebigidea]

18. ha! in that "rough fuzzy texture that has nothing to do with the song" way

[Nostradammit]

8. Goodbye Bob!!! Thanks for all your work!

I just spent the last two hours with my head under the hood of a Korg Karma, which would not today exist without Bob's tireless efforts.

Enjoy the music of the spheres, my friend -

:toast:

[burrowowl]

9. You said it well

Enjoy the music of the spheres!

:toast:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

10. Supposedly, Micky Dolenz was one of the first two people in the U.S....

...to own a Moog.

"Daily Nightly," from The Monkees' 1967 album "Pisces Aquarius Capricorn & Jones Ltd.," was one of the first mainstream pop songs to feature it.



I hear "Moog" and I immediately connect with that, so that's how I'll be remembering Bob.

:toast:

[fortyfeetunder]

11. My favorite Moog story

When I was in school, Mr. Moog was invited to demonstrate principles of his synthesizers for a science class. I was really jazzed about that experience. When Mr. Moog manipulated the frequencies of a tone, he had my undivided attention....

A few years later, I was playing Scrabble with an uncle, who I knew thought of me as being a smart-ass (after all, runs in the family!!). Anyway, he placed the word "Moog" on the board, and I promptly told him that was an invalid word for it was a proper name. He said no it's not, it's the Moog synthesizer. And I piped up, "yeah, but I met him!" The look on my uncle's face was priceless.

[truthisfreedom]

12. a little funny story about Bob Moog

[SheepyMcSheepster]

14. aww, goodbye bob

a legend.

the closest i came to bob moog was at an outside concert in prichard park, asheville nc.

i was chatting with a few members of one of the bands that played that evening and evidentally bob liked the act too and gave the keyboard player a card and told him to give him a call they would see about maybe getting him some equipment.

RIP bob moog.

[sendero]

15. I've been a fan..

.... of electronic music since I was a wee lad. Moog invented the first practical synthesizers. Back in the day, the idea was to use an electronic instrument to emulate natural ones.

That never really worked all that well, but no matter - soon the electronic sounds of the synthesizer became accepted in their own right.

RIP Mr. Moog. May your VCO never drift, and your VCF resonate beautifully :)

[LostinVA]

17. I went to college with his daughter Laura

She lived on my hall my Freshman year. Everyone called her "Moogie." This doesn't have anything to do with anything, I guess... just sharing.

[TrogL]

19. CNN report

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/08/22/moog.obit.ap/index.html

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

...

Keyboardist Walter (later Wendy) Carlos demonstrated the range of Moog's synthesizer by recording the hit album "Switched-On Bach" in 1968 using only the new instrument instead of an orchestra.

...

"The sound defined progressive music as we know it," said Keith Emerson, keyboardist for the rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

I used a Minimoog at University and owned a Polymoog for quite awhile.

Keith Emerson still tours with a Modular Moog.