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The late Raymond Baxter, who was a Battle of Britain pilot, before he ended up as a television presenter.

@@julianaylor4351 Interesting info, thanks

Yes, correctly. He even introduced himself as Bob Moog. I always tell people they're pronouncing his name incorrectly. Ah well.

In an interview Bob Moog said he didn't care which way it was pronounced. Half of his family pronounce it Mooog and the other have Moag.

@@thetwistedsock3253 In an interview Bob Moog said he didn't care which way it was pronounced. Half of his family pronounce it Mooog and the other have Moag.

And one of the original members of Manfred Mann!!!

I remember reading an interview with Jean Michel Jarre where he said that digital synths were a lost era of electronic music because of the very reasons you've mentioned. He utterly hated the DX 7. Programming and altering patches on those digital synths (especially the DX 7 and Roland D-50) is an enormous pain though if you persevere you can get really interesting stuff from them that doesn't sound like synth versions of classic instruments. Thankfully Jean Michel kept all of his old analogue gear and still uses it today. It's funny that those instruments that were considered junk and obsolete in the '80s are now highly sought after and are extremely expensive, whereas those digital synths can be bought for as little as £300.

@@PJV1990 He loved his D50 though, said he was 'obsessed with it', Revolutions is 95% D50 and Cousteau JD800. The DX7 gets a bad rap but much of TD's and Eno's sound in the early 80s were made with them. Can't beat a big modular though even if they aren't very practical.

​@@PJV1990I think the only two musicians who could really use this thing were Jan Hammer and Brian Eno. Hammer made it sing while Eno could program the hell out of it.

I remember scrapping truckloads of Moog modulars at the scrapyard I worked. We would use them for target practice as well. Little did I know I was 20.

​@@perge_musicThe JD-800 was released in 1991, Waiting for Cousteau was 1990. Maybe it was Chronologie (1993) he used the JD-800 for?

Alex and his 3 drogues. Droogs, drogues, moogs, mogues, pogues, rogues.

Used to great effect on Abbey Road, especially "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

He did the synth programming for Abbey Road that same year.

And yet, it's his former bandleader, Manfred Mann, who became one of the most expressive synthesizer players (albeit only after the Minimoog was introduced)

Very "Lucky Men".

Google Keith Emerson 🔥🔥🔥

Check out his set up

​@@thomassanchez-oo6sbyou, Sir, know the good stuff. I salute you

@@thomassanchez-oo6sb specifically, "Lucky man", which was the first time he used the moog, I think

Raymond Baxter did indeed present a lot of Tomorrow's World and had a similar tone. I believe though this is in fact Derek Cooper...perhaps more memorable from the Food Programme on BBC R4. Both had that post war gravitas in their voice when explaining science...

It's Derek Cooper. It's in the description. Wonderfully narrated in a no nonsense style.

​@@helenabarnett6441Is his accent considered RP? I'm American and am trying to work out UK accents.

@@Mick_Ts_Chick Yes. RP of the old school.

@@HeathcliffBlair OK, thanks.

Not legend. Well documented! And photographed! This is the guy behind the legendary, historic moog sounds on Here comes the sun and Because. In the same year as this video.

@@hepphepps8356 you're right .

@@hepphepps8356what about maxwells silver hammer? I hear a moog on that song too

I've seen footage of Pete Howell using a Yamaha CS80

@@welshaccenttutorials3104 Yeah, they took up Yamahas, Oberheims, ARPs, etc toward the end of the 70s into the early 80s. The EMS synths were just used for parts and accessories by then. Pity. They were far more distinctive sounding instruments. Problem was that they were also bulky and a bit slow.

They saw the Mellotron as an instrument of the Devil

03:40 sounds like he’s about to jam on Baba O’Riley!

@@timburdseyWe thought alike there! Edit: so did a few other people,scrolling down the comments.

In the days when a computer meant a mainframe filling an entire room.

he was playing an EMS Synthi

@@nobordersnoflags9905 Thanks for the info. ♥️

Virginia Plain?

@@rjjcms1 Yes, the clip is on RU-vid.... What's her name? ....🎶

I was just about to make the same comment but figured I can't be the only one who noticed the similarity!

A-a-a-amen

oh him, is he still going ? I remember his from that spoof series Look Around You

@@davedogge2280he turned his water based Hydrasynth prototype into a synth available for the general public a few years ago

That machine would certainly be harder to steal.

well, just 2 of them. Most prominently of course in "a Clockwork Orange".

One of the best uses of the moog was from Jeff Wayne's War of the worlds (musical version) This, and in most of the songs from the soundrack ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PjX8lAuRFbc.html

Keith Emerson used one on Pictures at an Exhibition.

I can't speak to how rare they were then, but the ones in this video are scarce. The later ribbons come up for sale from time to time but their value is increasing. I have the 1150 Model, which is the same one replicated on the Moog 15 app.

You beat me to it. This was 1969, before Baba O' Riley though, so Townsend must have nicked this.

@@Ian-gw2vx In the video at this point they are demonstrating setting up a documented patch. My guess was that it came with whatever synth Pete used, as a sort of "preset". (Edit. I thought I better look it up. Wikipedia says "Townshend instead recorded a Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ using its marimba repeat feature..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_O%27Riley

@@Ian-gw2vxHe “nicked” A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley. As in “Baba O’ Riley”

The size of a chest freezer

That was “A Rainbow in Curved Air” by Terry Riley from 1968

@@indigohammer5732 for sure; but this also sounds pretty similar. Maybe coincidence, but I can imagine Townsend probably saw this when it aired.

For “Baba O’Riley”, Townshend played a Lowrey organ, which had a setting called “marimba repeat” - this played a held note repeatedly, sounding like a marimba or mandolin. Sounds like a modern synth/arpeggiator, but Townshend played the notes “manually”, with the organ triggering the “repeat” effect.

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What you expect? Today when buying a Moog you are just paying the brand. There's so many hardware, VST synths and Moog emulators available that can produce these tones and much more. Yes, Moog was the first synth with a keyboard useful for musicians and they will always have a special place in history, but if you just care about the sound, there's no point to spend all that money on Moog

I was talking to a co-worker about Moog. Great build quality and rep but 9000 dollars for the Moog One? For just a amatuer musician who loves making music that's just too much.

They had it coming. Overselling their made in china hardware that was just ASSEMBLED in the USA and then sold to rich hipster kids and wealthy producers. Even their Theremins are insanely overpriced. And a Theremin really isn't a super sophisticated space-engine tech that justifies that asking price. They had their expensive niche for a while but i'm glad analog Synthesizers have become actually affordable and accessible now.

Starsky Carr did a video " Moog vs Novation Bass Station 2" Although Moog was obviously better , The BS2 was that far off the mark.$2,000 vs $500 .

It was in a sense the most obvious place to draw from, due to how many of the early electronic music pioneers were European.

If you can, you want to hear one in real life, there's a dimension to the sound which RU-vid simply can't accomplish.

Greensleeves

where can I listen to your synth jam from 1969?

The tune is Greensleeves!

Um, Mike Vickers wrote whole arrangements and stuff