With a Name Like Moog, It Has to be Good

Moog Music, the company Bob Moog(pronounced “moag”) founded in 1953 (then R.A. Moog Co.), pioneered the instrument that would launch the electonic music revolution. It was called the Moog synthesizer, and its later version the Minimoog came to symbolize the future of rock, jazz, raggae and any other genre whose artists sought a modern electronic sound. It was the first synthesizer to use a keyboard interface. That look has since defined the instrument itself; it is hard to imagine a synthesizer with only dials and buttons now. [READ MORE HERE]