Remembering Bob Moog

Amos wrote into AH letting us all know Bob Moog would have been 73 today. Happy birthday Bob, wherever you are.

Image via Robotspeak, where you will find an interview with Bob from 10/29/04.

Update: I just received the following from the Bob Moog Memorial Foundation:
"Remembering Dad:
"The Best Birthday Present Ever"
I own a gift store in downtown Asheville. About five years ago, I happen to be working on my birthday. About an hour after I opened, I was in the back of store setting up a display. It was a quiet spring day and the doors were wide open. I was quietly working away.

My solitude was suddenly and wonderfully interrupted by Dad, who was standing at my front doors singing “Happy Birthday” to me at the top of his lungs. He was so into it. He was waving his arms up and down with the beat, bending his knees and singing so loudly that they heard it half way down the block. I’ve never smiled so much, nor have I ever been more touched.

Dad never really liked celebrating birthdays in the conventional sense because the idea of giving a gift just because you were supposed to troubled him on a deep intellectual level. But hell, who needs a gift when you’ve got your Dad at your door, bellowing out the birthday theme?

Today is Dad’s birthday. He would have been 73. I’m taking the day off to remember him……and to sing to him.

Send Bob a Birthday note--share your Moog Stories at our website.
Take a moment out today to reflect on how Dad touched your life, how he inspired your creativity, how he changed the face of music.

May Moog be with you,
Michelle Moog-Koussa
Executive Director, The Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music
Make Waves. Support Bob's Legacy."

And of course, via MOOG Music:
Happy Birthday Bob - May 23, 1934
Ileana Grams-Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Moog Music President Mike Adams and the Moog Music family gathered today to celebrate Bob's birthday and legacy.