Robert Moog is dead

[Nostromo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4173912.stm

Synthesiser inventor Dr Robert Moog has died.

His synthesiser which revolutionised music in the 1960s has been used by acts ranging from The Beatles to Fatboy Slim among others.

He won the Polar prize, Sweden's music "Nobel prize", in 2001.

Dr Moog died at his home in North Carolina aged 71, four months after being diagnosed with brain cancer.

[Nostromo]

He invented the famous Minimoog


Here's the Moog 55

[Sava]

I liked his son Andy

[joncha]

/me goes and digs out his old moog albums...

[Winston]

I imagine he must have been very influential in his field. I know the Moog synthesizer in one form or another holds a prominent place in some of the music I enjoy the most.

[Heresson]

ELP wouldn't have been the same without moogs.
Probably it'd have been better, but still...