[penguicon-general] The poster in the background... I want it!

[john guest]

Yeah, I've seen that a couple times.  Theremin was quite a character.
There's a rather surreal segment with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.
I remember that making a an interesting segue into a discussion about
Charlie Manson's musical career.

Cheers,

--John

On 6/4/07, Michael Rudas (computer) <MPR_Linux at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Steven M Campbell wrote:
>
> > There's a great documentary on (I think) Showtime right now called
> > "Moog" which is about, you guessed it, Bob Moog.   In the interview
> > with Rick Wakeman, Rick describes how keyboard solos pre-Moog were
> > just drab things that were no competition for the guitar solos but
> > after the moog hit the market he started hearing guitarists say "Oh,
> > it's the keyboard player.... oh #!#$!#$ he's got moog!".   BTW, I
> > highly recommend this documentary, quite entertaining.
>
> If you REALLY want to kick it old school, one of the most fascinating
> documentaries I EVER saw was "Theremin - An Electronic Odyssey" --
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/2nru97 which includes footage of Moog
> himself, as one of the largest manufacturers of Theremins (the ORIGINAL
> analog electronic synthesizer).
>
> -- Mikey
>
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