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...synthesizer is the latest chapter in the history of electronic music. A prototype was built by RCA in the '50s, but it was not until the mid-'60s that Robert Moog, a New Yorker, and Don Buchla, a Californian, independently designed the first practical models. They were ungainly machines, bristling with plugs and wires that looked more at home in a scientist's laboratory than on a stage. In 1968 Wendy Carlos (then Walter, before a sex change) used a Moog for the album Switched-On Bach, a fetching electronic counterfeit that alerted musicians to the instrument...
...NASA Engineer Richard Colonna to examine the suits, literally stitch by stitch. Its provisional finding: "Egregious oversights"-to use the words of one of the investigators-by the prime contractor, the Hamilton Standard division of United Technologies Corp., and by a key subcontractor, Carleton Controls Corp., a subsidiary of Moog Inc. By implication, the report also faulted the space agency...
...history, tends to evaporate. Gossip is certainly an instrument of power; Lyndon Johnson understood the magic leverage to be gained from intimate personal details, artfully dispensed. He made it a point to know the predilections of friends, the predicaments of enemies. He orchestrated whole symphonies of power upon the Moog...
...interludes; the movie's gigantic "production number" is a ten-minute chase sequence that has Aykroyd and Belushi careering into Chicago with most of the local and state police force on their tail. The Blues Brothers is a demolition symphony that works with the cold efficiency of a Moog synthesizer gone sadistic...
...rock and roll. For a long time, no one seemed to know what else to do with the synthesizer. More recently, Georgio Moroder and Donna Summer realized in "I Feel Love" a sound which no one will ever duplicate for sheer originality or sensuality. Nevertheless, millions of depraved Moog owners, sitting in their velour studios, will continue vainly to plagarize that legacy...