Bob Moog Obit on The Gaurdian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/obituary/0,12723,1555746,00.html

Wow, this was an interesting and good one. Bob's take on synthesizers and musicians:

"I was never worried that synthesisers would replace musicians," he told journalist Jason Gross in 1997. "First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesiser. And second, I never thought that analogue synthesiser sounds would ever be mistaken for traditional musical instruments. To me, the synthesiser was always a source of new sounds."

This reminds me of when I purchased my first synthesizer, the Matrix-6 in 1986. I was blown away by the capability of creating and playing previously unheard musical instruments. The focus wasn't on trying to recreate the sound of an existing instrument but rather on creating subleties in sound never heard before. That is what a synth was and still is to me. To synthesize sound and new musical instruments.