Bob Moog, the guy who had a 'little' helping hand in modern music is suffering from an in-operable brain tumour. Go to his site and say hi.

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― Kid Twist (kid twist), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

That's weird. I could swear I remember something about Bob Moog dying 4 or 5 years ago.

He's the Sir Alec Guiness of music technology.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, best wishes for him.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

aw man:-( some friends of mine know his granddaughter. last i heard he was producing a documentary based on the 'lords of chaos' black metal book.

totally best wishes, get well soon mr. moog!

― latebloomer: occasionally OTM (latebloomer), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.synthfool.com/images/bobshead.jpg

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Latebloomer: Weird I just heard about that book after I read a Wikipedia article about break off sects from the Church of Satan.

All the best to Bob.

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I know the spirit of it was best wishes, but doesn't "get well soon", when referring to an inoperable tumor, mean "hurry up and die"?

Anyway, great man. Enormous conribution to modern culture.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Man, that sucks.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm genuinely rather saddened by this news

― mafism (Constance Gore-Booth), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

That's a great picture of him.

And is actually what his head looks like. Clearly a genius.

― Kid Twist (kid twist), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

this bums me out tremendously. he visited my college once and gave a talk, and was an incredibly friendly, affable and nice guy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

This bums me out in a personal way because he was born in my hometown, and I always felt a bizarre & oblique sort of kinship to him while growing up :/

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

RIP.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 22 August 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

May the good man rest well. A genius beyond measure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 August 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

UGH :((

RIP

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 22 August 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

dammit

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 22 August 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

RIP

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 22 August 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

RIP, a true genius/innovator and local hero for me.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 August 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

I thought Gary Numan (using prophet's and mini-moog's) did
something cool with that technology in his earlier albums
(replicas, pleasure principle, telekon) by mixing
synths with low-key guitar, bass & drums.It created
a warm fusion of the organic & non-organic.Layers
of tantalizing sound.

― James R., Monday, 22 August 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

rip :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 22 August 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

rip

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Monday, 22 August 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Bob, you did quite a lot to make the world a much more interesting place, thank you. Rest In Peace.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Monday, 22 August 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

Oh god that's sad :(

I missed a viewing of that Moog by Plexi (at a festival) documentary the other week. Maybe some places can re-screen it soon as a tribute?

Innovaters like him really, really should be honored as prominently as "guitar heros" are in a fair world.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 22 August 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

aw this is terrible! i can't believe i missed the news about his tumor in the first place

rip bob

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 22 August 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

rest in peace, you nutty wizard genius

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

Damn that's sad. I'm an owner of countless recs and CDs that simply wouldn't exist if not for Bob Moog's discoveries. And now I'm off to play with my virtual Minimoog.

Thanks, Bob
RIP

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 22 August 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

RIP Bob. Before him electronic musical instruments were way beyond the financial reach of ordinary musicians. His innovations made it possible for anyone to make squiggly Martian noises, which is what I may well do today on my (borrowed) Minimoog as a mark of respect.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Monday, 22 August 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

RIP. I don't have too many musical heroes, but I guess he's one of them.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

he really led an amazing life, from teenage inventor to musical innovator. RIP

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 22 August 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

:-(

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 22 August 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Weird that he was only 71 -- RIP.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 22 August 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

I missed a viewing of that Moog by Plexi (at a festival) documentary the other week. Maybe some places can re-screen it soon as a tribute?

very disappointing film, but at least they got some interview footage out of him while they could.

the analog days book has terrific background on moog's life and career.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

The BBC have finally woken up to the news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4173510.stm

A shame they had to illustrate the piece with a picture of Fatboy Slim though...

Robbie

― Robbie Baldock (bongoboy), Monday, 22 August 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

rip

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

rip

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Good to see him so appreciated.

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

RIP

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

sad news

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

he visited my college once and gave a talk, and was an incredibly friendly, affable and nice guy

i attended a talk he gave last year and yes, this was how he came over at that too
(and i loved the fact that he had about half-a-dozen pens and probably a Personal Organizer crammed into his shirt pocket - it was like 'yup, that's an engineer alright...')

i am so glad to have gone to it - and to have waited around to get his autograph like an awestruck fan

(first time i had wanted anyone's autograph since 1979)

((& only second autograph i had ever sought))

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

:-(

RIP, massive respect to a true innovator.

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

I saw him play about 5 years ago on a tribute bill to Raymond Scott.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

i really wanted to go to that. i'm sorry i didn't.

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 22 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Aw. Just now one of those really long segments on Channel 4 News where Jon Snow had a Moog player in the studio and the Tx footage seemed somehow like a slice of u-matic retro.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

RIP

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Seems strange suggesting that one of the great musical innovators of the 20th century should rest in peace, but he'll be missed for sure.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I pulled out my Big Briar theremin to poorly play for Bob. Farewell and thanks.

― Erik The Mainer (EZSnappin), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

RIP, Bob. And thank you for everything. :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 22 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Good bio in the New York Times -- as well as what is certainly the first and last mention of the ADSR envelope in the paper... [here]

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

As the owner of a Moog Prodigy... RIP.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

sad news :(

i never know what to say on these threads.

my micromoog is cool.

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

thank you, bob. RIP.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

farwell bob.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

my ipod is named the moog liberation army. liberation was moog's short-lived line of keytars.

http://www.synthmuseum.com/moog/moolib01.jpg

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

that looks heavy.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

my friend/boss wrote a nice piece last week on some moog preservation work going on here in knoxville. including possibly the first recording of a moog synthesizer ever made.

― women are a bunch of dudes (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:20 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks. This is also the place for another RIP Walter Sear: http://moogfoundation.org/2010/in-memorandum-walter-sear-joins-bob-moog-in-analog-heaven/

― Generation Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

Also http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/arts/music/07sear.html?ref=obituaries

― Generation Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/moog-modular-synth-redux/

― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 January 2015 18:10 (eleven years ago)

eight years pass...

Sadly, the company might as well be dead now:

https://synthanatomy.com/2023/09/inmusic-has-fired-a-large-portion-of-the-moog-staff-a-sad-day-for-synth-industry.html

There is no official press release from Moog or inMusic yet. However, according to ex-employees, many Moog employees in Asheville were fired today. Adam Strange, a former instructor at Moog says: “Moog just fired most everybody, it was a good run. Game over”.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 September 2023 22:09 (two years ago)

oh fuck, that's bad news

― NickB, Friday, 22 September 2023 22:13 (two years ago)

Yeah that's a rough one.

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 22 September 2023 23:10 (two years ago)

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