What's the story: Harrison and the Moog
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Topic: What's the story: Harrison and the Moog
Posted By: earlyprog
Subject: What's the story: Harrison and the Moog
Date Posted: June 03 2006 at 06:10
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What have you heard about Harrison's meeting with the Moog synthesizer?
I think I heard Emerson say something along the lines of Harrison being the first to experiment with the Moog.
I'm not familar with Harrisons first solo outing (think it was 1968?) but didn't he experiment with electronics on that one?
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 03 2006 at 07:45
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He recorded "Electronic Sounds" in 1969. He said "All I did was get that very first Moog synthesiser with the big patch unit and the keyboards that you could never tune and I put a microphone into a tape machine. I recorded whatever came out". He also used the Moog on Abbey Road. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: June 03 2006 at 16:21
Yeah...I'm afraid it sounds like he 'recorded whatever came out' on 'Electronic Sounds'- a bizarre album that certainly doesn't equal to what I expect in music. I had this extremely rare album about 2 years ago but sold it fairly swiftly. As I recall reading, there was some controversy that Bernie Krause, the resident Moog guru of the era that recorded some albums as 'Beaver and Krause' and taught Stevie Wonder how to play the Moog, had played everything on the album and didn't receive due credit. I wouldn't have owned up to it, myself!
There is, however, some decent Moog playing on 'Abbey Road' that shows he'd managed to master it fairly well.
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