I'm old enough to remember when the Moog synthesizer's arrival turned the music world on its ear. Its inventor, Robert Moog, has died of cancer at age 71. His family maintains a page with a guest book here, in case you have pleasant memories to share or kind words to say to his survivors.
As I remember it, my friends and my brothers and I had sometimes-long, sometimes-heated discussions on whether "synthetic music" was good or bad - but at the same time we couldn't wait to get our hands on a Moog and dreamed of owning one of our very own...
Gem Books from 100 Years Past: 1924
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It was indeed a different era. What was going on in 1924 when these books
were being published and read? The 1924 Paris Olympics, Leopold and Loeb
murders,...
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