At 5/13/2001 01:48 AM, someone wrote:
>The Moog was hardly new in '75 when Hissing came out. Among it's
>first uses in pop music was 6 years before.
Actually, I can date it back to as early as mid-1967, when Micky Dolenz
played it on the Monkees album "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and
Jones". From the liner notes on the reissued CD:
"Micky Dolenz's use of Robert Moog's synthesized keyboard on this track
marked the first time the instrument had been utilized on a mainstream pop
record." Although I'll admit it certainly wasn't an "artistic" use of it as
the notes continue "He had no idea how to play it; It was just random, hit
and miss kind of stuff".
Still, as a 10-year old kid I thought it was damn cool. :-)
Les
