{"id":2443985,"date":"2019-05-09T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=833135"},"modified":"2019-05-09T07:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:18:43","slug":"see-rick-wakeman-praise-favorite-keyboard-of-all-time-in-moog-doc-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-rick-wakeman-praise-favorite-keyboard-of-all-time-in-moog-doc-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"See Rick Wakeman Praise \u2018Favorite Keyboard of All Time\u2019 in Moog Doc Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMy favorite keyboard of all time will always be the Minimoog,\u201d Rick Wakeman says in an extended version of a scene that will appear in Electronic Voyager,<\/em> an upcoming doc on the life of legendary synth inventor Robert Moog. \u201cI couldn\u2019t live without one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the film, Moog\u2019s daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa, retraces the footstep of her father from his birthplace in Queens, New York, to his eventual home of Asheville, North Carolina. Along the way, she meets with various prominent musicians who have used Moog synths in their work, including Gary Numan, Jean-Michel Jarre and Wakeman, best known for his many tenures in Yes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this clip, Moog-Koussa visits Wakeman in Norfolk, England, at a building where he stores all his gear, including his collection of Minimoogs that he\u2019s used over the years. \u201cWelcome to my store,\u201d the keyboardist says, welcoming Moog-Koussa inside. \u201cSee the mess in there? \u2026 We know where most things are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He tells his guest that he has nine Minimoogs. He got the first one from actor Jack Wild, who gave it up because he wrongly thought the monophonic instrument was broken since it couldn\u2019t play more than one note at a time. Then, around the time Yes became successful in the early Seventies, Wakeman began building up his collection. \u201cThe Fragile<\/em> album was a massive hit, so I bought two more, and then \u2014 like some people collect stamps and some people collect cars \u2014 I collect Minimoogs,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

He goes on to talk about how the Minimoog revolutionized the role of the keyboard in rock music. \u201cFor years and years and years, the poor old keyboard player suffered \u2026 and then your dad invented and developed the Moog, which had a sound that would cut through concrete,\u201d Wakeman tells Moog-Koussa. \u201cAnd guitarists hated it, because suddenly you could be louder than them if you wanted to be. \u2026 So the greatest thing that Bob gave to keyboard players is the chance to truly express yourselves, because there\u2019s no point in expressing yourself if you can\u2019t be heard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Wakeman also reflects on how unassuming Moog was as a person. \u201cI really do think he was very surprised at his own success,\u201d he says. \u201cPeople would want to have their picture taken with him and he didn\u2019t quite get that. \u2026 He didn\u2019t quite get that he was a bit of an icon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The release of the Wakeman clip coincides with an Indiegogo fundraising campaign<\/a> for the doc\u2019s final stages that\u2019s currently in progress. (An earlier fundraiser<\/a> for the film met its goal on Kickstarter in 2016.) In addition to copies of the film in various formats \u2014 along with copies of I Dream of Wires,<\/em> a prior modular synth doc by Waveshaper Media, the team behind Electronic Voyager<\/em> \u2014 backers can also reserve copies of Electronic Voyages: Early Moog Recordings 1964-1969,<\/em> a new limited-edition LP compilation that\u2019s exclusive to the campaign. The campaign is live through May 30th, and the film is scheduled for release in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMy favorite keyboard of all time will always be the Minimoog,\u201d Rick Wakeman says in an extended version of a scene that will appear in Electronic Voyager, an upcoming doc on the life of legendary synth inventor Robert Moog. \u201cI couldn\u2019t live without one.\u201d In the film, Moog\u2019s daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa, retraces the footstep of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 20:41:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}