Bob Moog Interview - Bob the Tool Maker

You'll find it on RL Music here.

I wasn't planning on posting for the rest of the day to reflect on Bob. I spent the day outside with my wife and almost 2 year old daughter, in a way celebrating my daughter's hope in her life ahead of her. We all have a life to live and only so much time. This sort of news always makes this more real. I miss the early years when you either had no concept of it or it was soooo far out you never worried about yourself or those you cared about - you had plenty of time. I thought Bob had plenty of time and I thought I'd be fortunate to one day meet him in person. Life can be too short. I'm back home and my daughter is sleeping. I'm online and watching an interview of Bob Moog on the RLMusic site. I wasn't going to post, but I figure if it's about Bob, why not share it.

Update:
There is a transcript on the site as well. The following is "the connection" that makes Bob the master toolmaker for musisions:

"With so many of my customers buy vintage analogue equipment, why do you think in your opinion has this interest in vintage equipment come back to today’s home & professional studios – why is there such a resurgence of interest?

Bob:
It’s a question that’s asked so frequently, I could be flippant and say “oh it’s just fashion” I have a sense it’s a lot more than that. I have a sense that now that musicians have a lot of experience of digital instruments, in particular, have bumped up against the limitations of digital instruments when it comes to getting really great sound or getting there heads in there and shaping the sound. These very basic evangelist of analogue stuff are becoming clear. In the early years they were enamoured with all the novelty of all this digital stuff like the DX7 being a polyphonic synthesizer with new sound for $2000 dollars. That was a very distracting thing. Then the sample playing instruments- the EMU stuff and the Kurzweil Stuff and all the long string of digital stuff from Roland Korg and Yamaha came out with. There was a certain amount of excitement because it was so new but that’s died down now & musicians are missing really this sense of being able to connect with the sound. I think it’s much more difficult to do that with digital instruments. There is a tactile nature that’s a part of it but it’s also a uniquely human thing that goes on that has to do with more than just how it feels or the harmonics."