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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/arts/music/23moog.html?th&emc=th |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Switched on Bach. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Yeah. I saw this yesterday. Too bad. Bob's inventions have had a huge influence on music as we know it. Dave |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Emerson Lake & Palmer, The monkees, Bread, heck just about everyone used it in the late 60's and early 70's. RIP Robert. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I remember going to see him there in Ashville. It was in 83 and Steve Sutton, a great banjo picker, and I drove up through these Moonshine type mountains listening to Stevie Ray on the car system (on 10) to talk with Moog about making a guitar synth. Strange combination! |
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Location: Converse, Texas | The Monkees used a Moog? |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | They did, on the song "Daily Nightly" on the "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones" album. There was a segment that showed them using it for the song at the end of one show.
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Location: NJ | That album was "supposedly" credited with being the first commercial "pop" album t'use a Moog, . . . but I dunno . . . . . |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | The Monkees' (actually Michael Nesmith's) use of the Moog was pretty much boops and beeps and electronic whines; it wasn't that melodic.
The next use I can think of it is by The Byrds, on "Space Odyessy" on "The Notorious Byrd Brothers".
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Location: NJ | last Jan at namm i had a cool conversation with bob. he signed a pic for me and then i told him that i enjoyed not only his instruments but the music they made. we then had a cool exchange about how it is all about the music.
that was a very cool moment |
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Location: Scotland | It's true that "Daily Nightly" is acknowledged as the first time a Moog synth was used on a mainstream pop recording, but it had been around for a while before "Pisces, Aquarius Etc" was recorded. Nesmith wrote "Daily Nightly" but the Moog parts were allegedly played by Mickey Dolenz. It's fair to say that his keyboard skills were not as finely tuned as his drumming skills, which were non-existent. The album also credits a Paul Beaver as playing Moog. Apparantly he was the West Coast sales rep for Moog, so maybe he was to blame |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Boy are you guys old! So where was the Byrds' last concert? If my memory is correct, it was the same place I saw my first demonstration of a Moog Synthesizer. |
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Location: south east Michigan | The first Moog thing I can recall was EL&Ps, "Lucky Man". That had to be a real breakthrough for the instrument. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | No answers to the question on the Byrds last concert. I think it was in Manhattan, Kansas in around 1971. |
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Location: Tennessee | I have a micromoog I've been thinking about sending down the eBay route. I can play it about as well as, or slightly worse than, Mickey Dolenz. Maybe I ought to hang on to it ...
Think I'll go home and play a series of boops, beeps, whistles, and whines in honor of Bob. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Mark, looks like the last concert of the Byrds IN THAT ERA was in 1973, and there were six concerts after the Manhattan, KS one:
http://www.geocities.com/byrdsflyght/concerts73.htm
I presume this is the reformation of the original lineup, as they had an album out in that timeframe("Byrds" in early 1973). Although it could be the last lineup, with Clarence White....THAT would have been an interesting concert.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Agreed, that would have been a good one. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | The Monkees also used Teh moog on a Song Called Star Collector.Micky Dolenz actually had one set up at his house. Mickey took Drum Lessons, But during the last tour he played Rhythm Guitar and only went behind the drums twice during the whole show.
To quote him from one of his many interviews on the subject.
"we were all hired as actors to play this fictitious Rock group on TV, but Mike and Peter were really skilled musicians.Mike had been a folk singer-song writer and peter had worked the Folk Circuit on the east Coast. Peter is also Classicly trained and plays a variety of instruments. Since it was logical as the records began to sell that we'd have to tour, I took drum lessons so that i'd know how to play if the opportunity ever came up." |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Didn't Walter/Wendy Carlos extablish that prolonged exposure to a Moog leads to a sex change operation? |
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Location: NJ | That'd be Witko's area of expertise . . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Dammit, Roger. Another piece of incorrect trivia ruined by the internet. I went to Kansas State in 1973, but missed the Byrds concert and heard it was their last one. Now I can't remember if I saw Linda Ronstadt there or at Iowa. Give me a few more years and I'll have a lot better memory of stuff that never happened. |
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| Mark - age is an excuse for failing memory/failing bladder/failing eyesight, but when you forget where you saw Linda Ronstadt it's time to pull the plug.
Mr Chapman - we agreed a long time ago that there's not a lot to do in Fayetteville, but nobody should know that much about the Monkees. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | yeah Schroeder, I agree I shouldn't know that much about the Monkees, but I'm a fan. So.. what can i say? Hope your Doing well. |
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Location: NJ | Not to run-down Mr. Chapman, but I believe that Master Templeman (believe-it-or-not) is the pre-eminent expert of all things Monkee . . . . . |
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Location: Upper Left USA | When the oversized Manequin started talking it was over for me. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by cliff:
Not to run-down Mr. Chapman, but I believe that Master Templeman (believe-it-or-not) is the pre-eminent expert of all things Monkee . . . . . I wouldn't actually admit to that, but.... both songs appeared on the "Pisces, Aquarius" album. According to the sleeve notes on the Rhino reissue Dolenz played Moog on "Daily Nightly" and Paul Beaver played on "Star Collector"
Jesus F Christ! Posting Monkees trivia on a guitar geek site officialy confirms that I need to get a life. |
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We Lost Another One . . . .