My Moog's bigger than your Moog ;)

24db · Post by **24db** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:41 pm

TD myths #101. Let's get this straight then...Chris sits in the middle of the stage with the Big Moog?, 'the' Big Moog...if that's Big, what were Edgar and Johannes using during the 1980 tour?, their racks make Chris's look like a Casio VL tone (well perhaps not, but bare with me)

http://the-archive-plus.blogspot.com/20 ... ay_19.html

Small photo only

Edgar:

Johannes:

Chris Monk · Post by **Chris Monk** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:05 pm

I know I've asked this numerous times but what was with the curtains on the 1980 tour? Where they there to protect the band or just for effect?

24db · Post by **24db** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:07 pm

Chris Monk wrote:I know I've asked this numerous times but what was with the curtains on the 1980 tour? Where they there to protect the band or just for effect?

And the 1981 tour

, I guess it was good to do back projected lights onto.
Either way it looked cool (at the time)

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:49 pm

there is always a bigger moog

awe inspiring

24db · Post by **24db** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:57 pm

bigmoog wrote:there is always a bigger moog

awe inspiring

and TD's even Bigger Moog was sold...watch for it in the Buggles 'Video killed the radio star' video...I'm not kidding

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:04 pm

yep.....shame buggles made it sound cobblers

24db · Post by **24db** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:06 pm

bigmoog wrote:yep.....shame buggles made it sound cobblers

Can't even blame them...blame Hans Zimmer

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:08 pm

give hans his frame

wish i had the cash to have purloined the massive moog

Chris Monk · Post by **Chris Monk** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:59 pm

24db wrote:
Chris Monk wrote:I know I've asked this numerous times but what was with the curtains on the 1980 tour? Where they there to protect the band or just for effect?
And the 1981 tour , I guess it was good to do back projected lights onto.
Either way it looked cool (at the time)

Yep. It looked well cool and gave the concert a feeling of danger.

Chris Monk · Post by **Chris Monk** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:02 pm

24db wrote:
bigmoog wrote:there is always a bigger moog

awe inspiring
and TD's even Bigger Moog was sold...watch for it in the Buggles 'Video killed the radio star' video...I'm not kidding

Hang on a sec, wasn't Video Killed the Radio Star before 1980?

....and before you accuse me of being a closet Buggles fan; I know that Buggles joined Yes at the start of 1980, which was a year or two after Video Killed the Radio Star.

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:09 pm

hmmmmm....bm powers up google

video killed etc was1979

24db · Post by **24db** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:12 pm

Chris Monk wrote:
24db wrote:
bigmoog wrote:there is always a bigger moog

awe inspiring
and TD's even Bigger Moog was sold...watch for it in the Buggles 'Video killed the radio star' video...I'm not kidding
Hang on a sec, wasn't Video Killed the Radio Star before 1980?

....and before you accuse me of being a closet Buggles fan; I know that Buggles joined Yes at the start of 1980, which was a year or two after Video Killed the Radio Star.

Yes....ok here goes (by the end of this you regret asking)

, Chris franke sold the Big Moog in the seventies...I mean the orginal Big one to Hans Zimmer. Now the geezer who serviced this says I'm wrong...but he then promptly sent me the wrong photo (it was a pic of Peter's PE modular...that Chris ended up with after TD paid for). However I used to know somebody who met Chris several times (the last time was in 1995 in Beveryhills), to cut a long story short he agrees with me that it's the same Modular, and he should know as he owns two of them! (although obviously Hans has assembled it in a different order and added to it over the years...Hans later was in group called Helden...note the second E, this group, who also had Warren Cann from Ultravox played at the London Planeterium, using the Big Moog).

and that's the short story

Oh and the Moog is right at the end of the video...have a look in youtube!

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:17 pm

i still think the vcs 3 was a better synthe

24db · Post by **24db** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:24 pm

bigmoog wrote:i still think the vcs 3 was a better synthe

lol...synth envy

I've always liked PPG stuff, or Moog, hell no make that a Yamaha CS80 or Korg PS3200.

Seriously though all of EMS's stuff is very good for making weird modulations on. I think Peter used his AKS brilliantly, as Edgar did on his VCS3 (I seem to remember that Chris had an AKS....if somebody knows better please correct me)

bigmoog · Post by **bigmoog** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:29 pm

oh yes aks....

in those days, reading the equipment lists on the td lps,was almost as exotic and exciting as the music.......moog modular? nice but whadda bout projekt elektronik rythym computer or oberheim or er, MELLOTRON

i used to get very nerdy then about the equipment...............

td are.were. will be beyond their time

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My Moog's bigger than your Moog ;)

My Moog's bigger than your Moog ;)