Sunday, June 17, 2007
The First Moog Quartet - Bei Mir Bistu Shein - 45rpm
YouTube via Frritzz. via AudioLemon."My father got this from a Salvation Army store for 25 cents. He must've made some find. Played on my Pioneer PL-518."
Update via Frritzz in the comments:
"By the way, I do own a 3-CD set 'The Out Sound From Way In' as part of my CD collection. Fun to listen to.
On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Frritzz
On MySpace: http://myspace.com/frritz"
Update via the world of next tuesday in the comments:
"In a nutshell Kingsley and Perrey were both in NYC working with electronic music pre-Moog Modular. I believe the label A&R guy thought if they could team up they might put together a great album which was the case, and they subsequently did a second album together after the Moog came out and then parted ways.
For a subsequent project Kingsley came up with the first Moog Quartet concept trying to meet the challenge of playing live, in this case 4 performers on modular moogs. Moog built semi-custom gear for them. One of the members went on to form Hot Butter who had a hit with Popcorn some years later. So even though the recordings were done in the studio I suspect the concept was 4 guys could play it live though there are some non-synth instruments you'd presumably need backup guys playing.
Keith Emerson whom I guess was balking at the prices Moog wanted was offered one of the Quartet's Moogs after they disbanded and Moog's loaner gear was returned, so Emerson accepted Moog's offer to pick up a second hand gear, which I presume was quite useful to him since it had primitive patch switching for live use. So that synth was the first pieces of his modular."
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I think that's my first via via :)
ReplyDeleteCute little track though... I thought it reminded me of Jean Jacques Perry so I looked it up and Jean Jacques Perrys first album was made with Gershon Kingsley the guy who wrote this tune...
Hey this is "Frritzz" the one who uploaded this video on YouTube. I gave my congratulations to Matrixsynth for being my first subscriber! I've had an account for over a year and I'm just getting started on uploading the videos. There's gonna be more oldies but goodies as well as more electronic music and the ones I got from a flea market today.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I do own a 3-CD set "The Out Sound From Way In" as part of my CD collection. Fun to listen to.
On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Frritzz
On MySpace: http://myspace.com/frritz
Thanks fr-ritz, I updated the post with this.
ReplyDeleteAudiolemon thanks. You've been putting up some great content and I'm sure there will be more to follow.
Speaking of Jean Jacques Perry, do a quick search for Jean Jacques and you'll see a few posts I put up. I was fortunate to see him with Dana Countryman last year. It was a great show.
In a nutshell Kingsley and Perrey were both in NYC working with electronic music pre-Moog Modular. I believe the label A&R guy thought if they could team up they might put together a great album which was the case, and they subsequently did a second album together after the Moog came out and then parted ways.
ReplyDeleteFor a subsequent project Kingsley came up with the first Moog Quartet concept trying to meet the challenge of playing live, in this case 4 performers on modular moogs. Moog built semi-custom gear for them. One of the members went on to form Hot Butter who had a hit with Popcorn some years later. So even though the recordings were done in the studio I suspect the concept was 4 guys could play it live though there are some non-synth instruments you'd presumably need backup guys playing.
Keith Emerson whom I guess was balking at the prices Moog wanted was offered one of the Quartet's Moogs after they disbanded and Moog's loaner gear was returned, so Emerson accepted Moog's offer to pick up a second hand gear, which I presume was quite useful to him since it had primitive patch switching for live use. So that synth was the first pieces of his modular.
damn. i had no idea old Moog systems could do such good tack piano and acoustic drum sounds.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken, Keith's' Moog (a model IC w/preset box) was originally built for the "Jazz in the Garden" concert at Museum of Modern Art, New York, Aug 1969.
ReplyDeleteTwo Moog quartets were performing that night; the first featuring Herb Deutsch, Hank Jones, Artie Doolittle and Jim Pirone, the second with Chris Swanson and others.
The "First Moog quartet" concert took place some five months later (Jan 1970) at the Carnegie Hall, New York.
Gershon Kingsley was conducting this performance but except for Stan Free, who later played the Moog on "Hot Butter", I don't know who played the other Moog's.
The instruments used for this concert were afaik not the same as those used for the "Jazz in the garden" concert.
Micke
anyone know what the actual layout of these Moogs were? building a modular and i would like to incorporate some original clones, thanks for any help
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