[sdiy] Famous Gene?

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Tim Stinchcombe" <tim102 at tstinchcombe.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Famous Gene?
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:02:38 +0100

> > Excerpt from an interview with ELP keyboard tech Will 
> > Alexander From http://www.keithemerson.com/techtalk.html
> > 
> > ******************************
> > (TD)So the Moog was retired for ten years. What brought it 
> > out of retirement?
> > 
> > Keith feels it's an icon in the keyboard world. Even today it 
> > has a sense of mystery. People come up and look at it and 
> > they don't care about the technology. They could care less 
> > about samplers and synths, but they look at that Moog and 
> > say, "Wow!" When I got the Moog it was in pretty bad shape. 
> > It hadn't been used. There was lots of corrosion on all the 
> > contacts and modules didn't work. I have a friend named 
> > ***Gene Stopp*** who is also a Moog enthusiast, so we brought 
> > it into my living room for eight months.
> > ****************************************
> > 
> > Gene? Gene Stopp who writes to us mere mortals on Synth DIY? 
> > I'm impressed! What a great story to be able to tell at SDIY 
> > meetings. :)
> 
> This prompted me to have a look in Mark Vail's 'Vintage Synthesizers' book,
> and indeed there is much in there on Gene's contribution on how they
> breathed life back into the monster Moog, after it had spent an extended
> spell in a case outdoors.

Please note that the ASM-1 VCO matches the span of that Moog's VCO. See Vail's
book on those comments ;O)

Cheers,
Magnus