Moog Bach aka 'Switched on Bach'

[Taverner]

Done by Wendy Carlos - Moog Maestress.

[Brickbat]

1. My parents had this and it was hella cool for about the first 2.5 songs.

So that's how I voted. Besides, I was 8. But I don't think we ever made it to the second side.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Taverner!

We still have that album, though we haven't played it in years, or maybe decades!

I love the music! Plus that cover is pure genius!

Thanks for the great memories...

:hi:

[Radical Activist]

3. Just because something can be done

doesn't necessarily mean it should be done.

[Taverner]

9. Ahhh now do you think the Moog 'ruined' Bach?

To me the perfect instrument to play Bach IS the Moog.

It can be anything it wants to be.

[jmowreader]

12. Bach would not have approved of the Moog

One note at a time is not enough for Bach, and Moogs sound like shit anyway. Bach would have approved of the Kurzweil 250:



Bach would have thoroughly approved of a machine that sounds almost exactly like a Steinway grand.

He would have rebelled at the fact it weighs almost exactly as much as one.

(Edited to put a picture that worked in...)

[Taverner]

13. I disagree. I think he would have gone for the Moog at the time

And would have been happy to go Mini-Moog today!

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. The Clockwork Orange soundtrack is better, IMO

"Funeral for a Queen". "The William Tell Overture", and "The Ode to Joy"

[pokerfan]

5. Would Bach have embraced the synthesizer?

I think so.

[sarge43]

6. Most likely

What else is the organ?

[6000eliot]

7. She was "Walter" at the time she made this album.

The gender reassignment didn't occur until later.

[Taverner]

8. Yes she was...

But since she's Wendy now, I will refer to her as female

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. One of my very first CD purchases. But it was William or whatever her name was first who did it.

[Taverner]

11. William Carlos => Wendy Carlos

And if you saw her today, you'd never think she used to be a man

[TroglodyteScholar]

14. Walter, not William n/t

[Taverner]

15. DOH!

Fuckus Uppus!