This one in via Brian Kehew.
I thought the following was pretty great. It's at the end of a rare interview with Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter on the Miami New Times.
"Before you leave, may I ask you what influence Moog has had on your music?
We met him when we were recording a TV show in Los Angeles back in '75 and Mr. Moog was there. We used a monophonic Minimoog -- we didn't have the budget for the larger one -- but he, of course, knew that already. What he didn't know was that meeting the machine's inventor was one of the true highlights of our lives."
Update: below is an image of Kraftwerk from 1976 via Wikipedia's page for Trans Europe Express. You can see the Minimoog as well as a couple of ARP Odysseys. Curios what that is in the background left.
Update2 via Steven in the comments: "It's a Synthanorma sequencer (by Matten & Wiechers).
http://a-u-t-o-b-a-h-n.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/elektromusik-u-t-o-b-h-n-der-besten-das.html
I guess it's an earlier model than this one.
http://www.matrixsynth.com/2007/02/synthanorma-sequenzer.html"
And via Brian: "Under the Minimoog is an Orchestron, Model A or B..."
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