[Vintage-Audio] Nashville "Country Moog"

Tue Sep 12 13:17:29 EDT 2006

Duane, you've touched upon one of my favorite hobbies. I have a pretty
big library of "field" recordings of such things as storms, babbling
brooks, airplanes taking off. It's in analog (tape) format. I've been
flirting with the idea of putting them on a website. It would be nice to
have a group of people submitting recordings, not just my own (not
always good) recordings. Regardless, I would very much enjoy hearing
your Model A recording if you ever find it.

Michael 

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Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Nashville "Country Moog"

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
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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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