Bernie Worrell used moog bass on parliament song " flash light " with astounding effect. Moog bass elevated flash light to top of the music charts for 16 weeks during 1978/early 1979. This now old instrument is still the bomb 💣.
Moog are the Lexus of synthsisers; they are made with the finest ingredients and will mostly likely outlast their human owners in lifespan - of course they're expensive. You need to be absolutely serious and committed before purchasing something like this. Start with a Casio SK-1, once you write a whole album on that, get a Little Phatty.
Great to see someone actually playing one instead of cat-walking up and down the keyboard with their fingers like a lot of these youtube demonstrations.
I have a Moog little phatty stage, a Roland SH-201, and a Korg i4S workstation. I am in a band called Break the Silence Teaser. (on youtube) Love Dream theater and Moog Music inc.
I love playing with this thing at Guitar Center, and I'm new to the synth stuff too, but I don't get why it's so much money. I'm leaning towards the Korg R3 cuz it has a vocoder and it has recordability on it that the Phatty doesn't have and it's only 600 rather than 1300, but this thing has such good sound though. I'm torn between.
I love it. I just wish this machine had a dedicated knob for filter functions: cutoff, res, attack, depth This is pretty standard on synths these days, even cheesy ones that don't have nearly the oscillators that Moog has. I assume this was a cost cutting omission? It worries me a little. Obviously, he's doing fine with it though ; )
at 1:23 you talk about using the SAME KNOB to alter the time AWAY from the DECAY and To the ATTACK. I notice this with a good percentage of the instruments that have been built in the last 20 years or so. To save space on the front panel, each control performs multiple functions BUT they can only perform ONE AT A TIME. This may be great for studio work, but for a live performance it somewhat limits the ability that you have to alter the sound WHILE you are performing.
What I wouldn't give to be able to borrow one of these things from somewhere and play with it for a couple weeks. It's too bad they're a wee bit out of the price range of someone on SSI.
His main band is Dream Theater. Some of the sickest musicians ever put together, but I don't listen to it very often because the singer is sooooo 80's cheese. They did instrumental stuff in a band called Liquid Tension though, much better without Michael Bolton lyrics.
Want Moog Little Phatty...Can't afford Moog Little Phatty...Of course first I gotta find out as much as I can about the supposed software that makes it possible for a totally blind individual to interface with it. Think I better call Moog Music tomorrow and ask them. Then I'll know if it's worth saving up for. Too bad none of the stores in the small town where I live keeps an LP around for demoing purposes...
