J.J. wrote on Wed, 02 March 2005 19:36 |
A couple things here ...
Terry, let me get this straight ... that's YOU playing that line on "Stranger In a Strange Land"? OK, you have worked on too many of my favorite albums. No fair. What other Leon stuff did you work on? I don't know if you saw me ask the question in the weird session thread, but do you know who "Shootout On the Plantation" is about?
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Didn't work a lot more on Leon, although he was a good friend, and came around a lot. But yes, that's me playing that synth line. He was very excited by the new Moog instrument.
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BTW, did you know that they wanted to call the first album "Can a Blue Man Play the Whites?" You probably did, but how many other 35 year olds do you think know that.
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I do remember that, now that you mention it...wouldn't have thought of it otherwise, though.
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Next, Bob Moog pronounces his last name like 'vogue', but apparently the company is pronounced like 'droog'. (The only word I could think o that rhymed.) This is according to Brian Kehew, and everybody at the Moog booth at NAMM pronouced it that way, too.
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Respectfully to you JJ, I am sorry, but any Moog (as in "Vogue") employees, including all the way to the top, who pronounce the word wrong are, well, wrong in my opinion. I was there at the very inception of the company, working with Bob, although for a short while, and the company name was Moog as in "Vogue." They made a product, however, called the "Rogue," and THAT NAME rhymed with "droog." Not really. When Bob sold out, all hell broke loose, semantically.
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Lastly, I know Bob Olhsson hasn't responded yet, but the earliest synth I can think of on a Motown song is the Supremes' "Reflections". Does anybody know?
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Bob?
Respectfully, Terry
Later that same evening...
"perhaps I should edit this post...hmmm...Brian K. might not like it....oh well, never mind....maybe I don't know what I'm talking about anyway....but I do wonder why in Heaven's name a man would NAME HIS OWN COMPANY AFTER HIMSELF, but then MAKE SURE that the company's spoken name DID NOT RHYME with that name....???" {See Brian's response to that below!}