[Vintage-Audio] Nashville "Country Moog"

Tue Sep 12 12:18:31 EDT 2006

Hi Lee (and all)

I think I have another Moog album that is by Gil. Of course a lot of what 
the world heard was by Walter 'Wendy' Carlos; Switched on Bach #1 and #2, 
Switched on Bacharach and Beauty And The Beast.

Whereas Carlos gave the Moog a very clean Classical sound, Gil added some 
beat, some instrumental depth and some personality! I got a copy of "Country 
Moog" from somebody and copied it to my Voice Of Music tape Deck. I had it 
on a seven inch reel recorded at 7 1/2 IPS. I was still living at home, so 
that had to be before August 3, 1968, got married and moved out!

I also had a stereo recording of my 1929 model A Ford custom street machine. 
The engine was a 1933 model B Ford (model A had no crank counterbalance, 
model B from 32-33 had 3/4 balance and the 34 model C had full 
counterbalance) bored out .125 to 213 cubic inches, compression raised from 
4:1 to 8:1, Mallory ignition, Chevy four ring pistons, shortened rod stroke, 
from drip oil to 80 pound pressurized feeder system, fiber cam gear to 
aluminum, single updraft to twin Weber downdraft with ram air induction, 
hand built headers with no exhaust for back pressure, two chrome pipes ran 
the full length of the running boards and flared just before the ten inch 
slicks, solid adjustable lifters, electric fuel pump (Moon five gallon 
hydroplane pressureized tank on chrome planted 1/4 steel boiler plate mount 
on rear, etc. Let's just say that when she fired up, you could hear it bark 
for a quarter of a mile! Sure sounded cool on tape.

Question is, what the heck happened to all of those tapes? I never threw out 
any of my music, none of them! Anyone who touched my stereo equipment, 
record albums or tapes was on my hit list! And everyone knew it too!

Sometime I'll have to share with you a story that caused me to vaporize my 
Fruit Of The Loom briefs and wake up faster than I believed possible! Remind 
me: sitting on bed, playing Johnny Horton album and recording it to a seven 
inch tape. Suddenly heard this voice say "You're next!" It came out of my 
cieling mounted James B. Lansing 8 inch full range in 3/4 inch White Birch 
bass reflex cabinets. I played the tape back and sure enough it was on the 
tape I was recording to! It wasn't on the album, so like where did it come 
from?

Duane W8DBF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LeeHazen at aol.com>
To: <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Nashville "Country Moog"

> In a message dated 9/11/06 6:13:41 PM Central Daylight Time,
> dfischer at usol.com writes:
>
> << Hey Lee! Ever see a copy of the late sixties Moog synthesizer release
> called
> "Country Moog"? It did not have the guy/woman? Walter Wendy Carlos playing
> it. He/she was about the only musician that could play it right, other 
> than
> its inventor. Just look how far the synthesizer has come? >>
>
> Yes, I have it in my collection.  There were two very prolific Moog 
> artists in
> Nashville - Gil  Trythall and Rick Powell.
>
> Gil's albums were entirely Moog.  He synthesized country instruments and 
> the
> albums were very entertaining.
>
> Rick did two types of sessions - All Moog and Moog accompanied by the
> Nashville
> "A" team players as the rhythm section. Rick's recordings were incredible.
>
> I personally knew Rick and considered him  one of my best friends.  He was
> an accomplished arranger and guitarist and a producer as well.  We lost 
> Rick
> this year to cancer.
>
> I went to Ithica NY to train to program the Moog when I was at Woodland 
> Sound
> Studios.  I was the staff "Moog guy" and programmed the instrument for 
> clients
> who wanted to use it on projects.  I did a few wierd recordings on my 
> own -
> " Moog 4 X" and "The Outer Orbital Freeway" (using an eventide 
> Harmonizer).
>
> I'm pretty sure that you could find the Moog albums at the Great Escape in
> Nashville - and if not, I could copy my LPs to CDs since these  records 
> are
> out of print for over 30 years.
>
> Good Luck !
>
> Lee
>
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