Bought my first, and probably last, Moog last year, the Grandmother, on four years of interest free credit. I was ill when it finally arrived. I was playing it in bed, on my lap with headphones, just ecstatic. When I was well enough to walk, we brought it down to the studio like David moving the Ark of the Covenant, we were playing horns and hand percussion in a procession happily shouting. One of the happiest moments of my life, up there with the birth of my child. The Grandmother was a huge problem for me in the studio. It just made the exact sound I'd been trying to achieve through other means for 20 years of electronic music production and destruction. What a waste of prime life. For weeks, into months, I couldn't work on songs, I just tracked and tracked, playing, exploring, modulating the Grandmother. I love that synth. And thanks to the product manager who saw the Grandmother project through to completion. A real inspired individual there. So sad to see the Grandmother eventually fall to the black and silver mob of uninspired nobodies. No offense.
A massive "thank you" to everyone behind this amazing documentary! Can't wait for the next one! Brilliant! I laughed and cried in equal measure! Joyous!
You and me both, my friend. I could listen to these synth pioneers and passionate enthusiasts talk about the history of electronic music for days on end. Every new detail or anecdote as fascinating as the last one. I'd have loved to have an extended version with even more of the original interviews.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an interview of Alan R. Pearlman before. It is incredible to see so many great minds in this industry whom created the backbone of what artists consider musical electronic sound and even pushed technology in voltage control as well. If it weren’t for them and others unknown we wouldn’t have the innovative instruments or software that we have today at such reasonable prices compared to the beginning. Thank you for creating/posting this video!
Nice to see that this documentary starts off with Herb Deutsch who I met in 1978 when I was a student @ Hofstra Univ. in Hempstead, NY. Then moves on to Bob Moog, who I bumped into on the streets of Boston and spent a pleasant afternoon with chatting to. Bob was in town doing a talk for the AES about his struggle getting the name MOOG back for his usage. He was using Big Briar @ the time + fighting to legally be able to use his own name on his own products. Of course I got to know Daniel Miller via my involvement with the Detroit techno scene + the London Acid House scene from my years involved with Psychic TV. I met Tom Oberheim via my friend Jeff Carvalho who was interviewing him for the relaunch @ a Red Bull Academy event in Boston and we spent a nice day + evening together. I met Alan Pearlman @ an ARP event @ Berklee Music School + got to tell him about my special friend Dennis Colin. I became close to Dennis Colin via his daughter + it's a real heartbreaker to see him again. So nice to see that you captured much of what he told me before he left us. Who am I ???
Thanks for sharing this. Good to see Herb Deutsch interview. I think his impact is often very much forgotten. Without him there might never have been a Moog Synthesizer.
This is brilliant Dave, such a pleasure! It really paints the picture of the history and development of electronic instruments well, in such an interesting and inspiring way, and there's some really great interviews in there. So wonderful getting that interview with Alan Pearlman before he passed away. Wow.... won't be the last time I watch this one. Well done, and thank you!
One of the best hour and seven minutes I ever spent. Well done! I didn't know about the Chamberlin and Mellotron story, so that was a nice surprise. And always nice to hear Alessandro Cortini talk. He's great. Well done, guys! Loved it!
it amazes me how many people didn't buy this when it came out - nice to see it uploaded legally - cheers chris n dave - i need new download links as my purchase links have expired
20:44 I'm a proud owner of an R.A.Moog Minimoog model D #79 (1079) and a muSonics model D #227 (1227). I also proudly own all the three types of oscillator boards these Minimoogs had. The original OSC board (from the metal-back ones), the "old" OSC board (starting with MoogMusic), and the "new" most stable osc board with 9 pots. The serial numbers indicate three things: 1) It became muSonics before they sold 230 Minimoogs. 2) The filter board only in these earliest Minimoogs with the black metal background have matched transistors, meaning all the Minimoogs until MoogMusic have the same legendary magic Moog sound since all the later Minimoogs did not have matched transistors in the transistor ladder filter board, so the leather-back (non-metal back) Minimoogs all sound a bit different from each other. The third thing is that I can pass stereo sound from two legendary Moog filters for sound magic :-) (just flexing) The magic sound is partially due to the unobtanium vintage VCA circuitry (definitely not the modern surface mount ones) so the later ones have most of the magic too ;-)
I bought this documentary and the album three years ago, and since then, I've watched the documentary a few times, and it's been one of the most listened-to albums in my music collection. Fascinating stories and amazing music. And it's a very important documentary that it would be too late to make not many years later. Well done. This will be one of those videos I will share and recommend, just as I have recommended the paid-for version to others before.
Who and more importantly *WHY* would someone give this a thumbs-down? You've got nothing better to do that hate on amazing content that they put their heart & soul into? And considering the time & effort required to get the interviews with people that were instrumental (coincidental pun) in the creation & progression of Synthesizers and Synthesis? Just ridiculous...
@@joserancel6255 It is also weird to expect that 100% of everyone who stumbles upon a video on youtube will like it. I mean we are currently at 0.5% thumb downs including mine that has nothing to do with the video content. Not really something worth wondering about.. I don't hate the video at all but I still thumbed down, it's really strange to assume that everyone that thumbs down a video hates it like the top level comment in this thread seems to suggest. Also, btw, the hover text on the thumbs down button says 'dislike', not 'hate'.
Dave, this blows my mind. I can't believe you got this much amazing content out of Herbert Deutsch. This is what the Moog Music UA-cam channel should have done. Thank you so much for this amazing Documentary. This is like infusion for a synth nerd. Also, why UA-cam didn't recommend this video to me until now is beyond me.
Thanks for making this available on YT, Dave. I bought the download when it first came out, but this is synth history gold and every electronic musician needs to have access like it was in a library.
This is great! I too, wanted a Mini Moog, when I was a teenager, back in the 70s, but could not afford. Recently, I bought my first Moog, a Subharmonicon. It is just the combination of elements that I was looking for, and so happy to finally have a real Moog, in my studio. Lately I'm also interested in the "west coast" synth style, and so I'm also enjoying the Buchla part of this video. It is a wonderful time to be into all kinds of electronic music, and synthesizers. So much good stuff available now. Special shout out to Korg Volca series, and Behringer, for their good sounding, affordable Synth gear. Thanks so much for making and sharing this! Best wishes for your continued success.
Beautifully compiled, high quality content. I've only recently discovered this channel and I haven't seen all your videos, but this goes for all the ones I've seen so far.
I've only recently dipped my toes in the world of hardware synthesis, but this documentary is really eye-opening. I grew up with computers and I know how to build a PC, but the way these pioneers built musical instruments by essentially taming raw electricity is so fascinating! It makes me aware of how little I understand about the electronics I own, and how stupidly advanced they all are, compared to 40+ years ago.
Yeah baby!! That is the upper left corner of a Moog Opus 3 in the foreground, starting at 3:31 (which Herb Deutsch was heavily involved with)!! Thank-you GForce Software for releasing this vid into the wild!
Darn, what a great work! Thank you :). Pearlman's part was probably the most interesting! Total random thought: Why does Alessandro Cortini look like Katie Holmes? :P
I’d never heard the Mellotron/Chamberlin story, even though I have the Chambertron Rack extension. Crazy to think that the Mellotron probably would not exist if Harry Chamberlin had hired a different window washer that day, or just wasn’t playing the instrument when Franzen was there.
Thank you Dave and Chris for sharing this with us all on a cold February day. ❄️ What an achievement this film is.
Couldn't have put it better
InstaBlaster...
Bought my first, and probably last, Moog last year, the Grandmother, on four years of interest free credit. I was ill when it finally arrived. I was playing it in bed, on my lap with headphones, just ecstatic. When I was well enough to walk, we brought it down to the studio like David moving the Ark of the Covenant, we were playing horns and hand percussion in a procession happily shouting. One of the happiest moments of my life, up there with the birth of my child.
The Grandmother was a huge problem for me in the studio. It just made the exact sound I'd been trying to achieve through other means for 20 years of electronic music production and destruction. What a waste of prime life. For weeks, into months, I couldn't work on songs, I just tracked and tracked, playing, exploring, modulating the Grandmother.
I love that synth.
And thanks to the product manager who saw the Grandmother project through to completion. A real inspired individual there. So sad to see the Grandmother eventually fall to the black and silver mob of uninspired nobodies. No offense.
I love this comment
A massive "thank you" to everyone behind this amazing documentary! Can't wait for the next one! Brilliant! I laughed and cried in equal measure! Joyous!
I wish this was 10 hours long!
You and me both, my friend. I could listen to these synth pioneers and passionate enthusiasts talk about the history of electronic music for days on end. Every new detail or anecdote as fascinating as the last one. I'd have loved to have an extended version with even more of the original interviews.
The best synth documentary ever. Thank you so much for making this available.
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen an interview of Alan R. Pearlman before. It is incredible to see so many great minds in this industry whom created the backbone of what artists consider musical electronic sound and even pushed technology in voltage control as well.
If it weren’t for them and others unknown we wouldn’t have the innovative instruments or software that we have today at such reasonable prices compared to the beginning.
Thank you for creating/posting this video!
Nice to see that this documentary starts off with Herb Deutsch who I met in 1978 when I was a student @ Hofstra Univ. in Hempstead, NY. Then moves on to Bob Moog, who I bumped into on the streets of Boston and spent a pleasant afternoon with chatting to. Bob was in town doing a talk for the AES about his struggle getting the name MOOG back for his usage. He was using Big Briar @ the time + fighting to legally be able to use his own name on his own products. Of course I got to know Daniel Miller via my involvement with the Detroit techno scene + the London Acid House scene from my years involved with Psychic TV. I met Tom Oberheim via my friend Jeff Carvalho who was interviewing him for the relaunch @ a Red Bull Academy event in Boston and we spent a nice day + evening together. I met Alan Pearlman @ an ARP event @ Berklee Music School + got to tell him about my special friend Dennis Colin. I became close to Dennis Colin via his daughter + it's a real heartbreaker to see him again. So nice to see that you captured much of what he told me before he left us.
Who am I ???
Thanks for sharing this.
Good to see Herb Deutsch interview. I think his impact is often very much forgotten. Without him there might never have been a Moog Synthesizer.
This is every bit as good as I remember Mark Vail's Vintage Synthesizer book to be. THANK YOU FOR THIS, AND YOUR AMAZING SOFTWARE!
This is brilliant Dave, such a pleasure! It really paints the picture of the history and development of electronic instruments well, in such an interesting and inspiring way, and there's some really great interviews in there. So wonderful getting that interview with Alan Pearlman before he passed away. Wow.... won't be the last time I watch this one. Well done, and thank you!
Wholeheartedly agree with your comment. 100% 👍
Thanks Dave, I rented this last year - nice to be able to re- watch, it's an incredible labour of love.
Agreed
Bought it, watched a few times and... heck, can't resist to watch it yet again, now on the youtubes :D
Lots of love has been put into this little documentary. Very nice work.
It's amazing to learn all about the synthesizers from the 60s and 70s. I'm also a big fan of I Monster!
Thanks so much for sharing such a beautiful document!!!
Thank you for getting all these people on the record telling their stories. Weaves together a history needing to be told. Bravo!
One of the best hour and seven minutes I ever spent. Well done! I didn't know about the Chamberlin and Mellotron story, so that was a nice surprise. And always nice to hear Alessandro Cortini talk. He's great.
Well done, guys! Loved it!
it amazes me how many people didn't buy this when it came out - nice to see it uploaded legally - cheers chris n dave - i need new download links as my purchase links have expired
Thanks very much for for posting this!
Amazing documentary - i'm learning so much ! huge merci !
20:44 I'm a proud owner of an R.A.Moog Minimoog model D #79 (1079) and a muSonics model D #227 (1227).
I also proudly own all the three types of oscillator boards these Minimoogs had. The original OSC board (from the metal-back ones), the "old" OSC board (starting with MoogMusic), and the "new" most stable osc board with 9 pots.
The serial numbers indicate three things:
1) It became muSonics before they sold 230 Minimoogs.
2) The filter board only in these earliest Minimoogs with the black metal background have matched transistors, meaning all the Minimoogs until MoogMusic have the same legendary magic Moog sound since all the later Minimoogs did not have matched transistors in the transistor ladder filter board, so the leather-back (non-metal back) Minimoogs all sound a bit different from each other.
The third thing is that I can pass stereo sound from two legendary Moog filters for sound magic :-) (just flexing) The magic sound is partially due to the unobtanium vintage VCA circuitry (definitely not the modern surface mount ones) so the later ones have most of the magic too ;-)
Very well done, thanks for posting this on youtube!
I bought this documentary and the album three years ago, and since then, I've watched the documentary a few times, and it's been one of the most listened-to albums in my music collection. Fascinating stories and amazing music. And it's a very important documentary that it would be too late to make not many years later. Well done. This will be one of those videos I will share and recommend, just as I have recommended the paid-for version to others before.
Who and more importantly *WHY* would someone give this a thumbs-down? You've got nothing better to do that hate on amazing content that they put their heart & soul into? And considering the time & effort required to get the interviews with people that were instrumental (coincidental pun) in the creation & progression of Synthesizers and Synthesis?
Just ridiculous...
I also thumbed down the video now only because of your comment. You are welcome.
I watched thousands videos of electronic gears.....i havent put thumbs-down never,this video is amazing
@@joserancel6255 It is also weird to expect that 100% of everyone who stumbles upon a video on youtube will like it. I mean we are currently at 0.5% thumb downs including mine that has nothing to do with the video content. Not really something worth wondering about.. I don't hate the video at all but I still thumbed down, it's really strange to assume that everyone that thumbs down a video hates it like the top level comment in this thread seems to suggest. Also, btw, the hover text on the thumbs down button says 'dislike', not 'hate'.
Now *that* was well worth watching! Thank you so much, from a guitarist who played alongside a Minimoog, amongst other things. I was in tune...
Dave, this blows my mind. I can't believe you got this much amazing content out of Herbert Deutsch. This is what the Moog Music UA-cam channel should have done. Thank you so much for this amazing Documentary. This is like infusion for a synth nerd. Also, why UA-cam didn't recommend this video to me until now is beyond me.
Awesome piece of work.
Great. Thanks Dave
Such a wonderful thing this is Dave. Well Done!
This is superb thank-you, brilliant interviews and content!
Thank you to all of the pioneers presenting us those beautiful instruments ...
Thank you for putting this documentary together!!!! Amazing like your virtual instruments 👍🏻
Thanks for making this available on YT, Dave. I bought the download when it first came out, but this is synth history gold and every electronic musician needs to have access like it was in a library.
This is great!
I too, wanted a Mini Moog, when I was a teenager, back in the 70s, but could not afford.
Recently, I bought my first Moog, a Subharmonicon.
It is just the combination of elements that I was looking for, and so happy to finally have a real Moog, in my studio.
Lately I'm also interested in the "west coast" synth style, and so I'm also enjoying the Buchla part of this video.
It is a wonderful time to be into all kinds of electronic music, and synthesizers.
So much good stuff available now.
Special shout out to Korg Volca series, and Behringer, for their good sounding, affordable Synth gear.
Thanks so much for making and sharing this!
Best wishes for your continued success.
This is great stuff, Dave! Can't wait to see the B side and the extras.
Awesome, awesome stuff! Cheers guys. 👍
Fantastic job! Thanks a lot! Best regards, Peter
Absolutely terrific!!! Thank you very much.
WoW !! What a treat. Really well done.
I'm inspired ; )
Thank You
I enjoyed this so much! Thanks for making it available for free!!
Didn’t know about this documentary. Great stuff, thank you for sharing!
Awesome work, thank you!
awesome video, a whole hour of intellectual and musical delight. thank you
Fantastic documentary you got here, Dave! I should anticipate this from now on, considering that even your little
Beautifully compiled, high quality content. I've only recently discovered this channel and I haven't seen all your videos, but this goes for all the ones I've seen so far.
This is just great. Thank you!
Absolutely brilliant!! Thank you.....
Thanks for making this. Lots of great info here and incredibly well put together
Exactly what I need at the moment to get through that time sanely!
Great documentary! Cheers guys. ❤
Great documentary, thanks.
This is warming my cockles during a cold dark lock down, thanks
Weather's improved where I live, but my cockles were happy to snuggle up and watch this docu.
I've only recently dipped my toes in the world of hardware synthesis, but this documentary is really eye-opening. I grew up with computers and I know how to build a PC, but the way these pioneers built musical instruments by essentially taming raw electricity is so fascinating! It makes me aware of how little I understand about the electronics I own, and how stupidly advanced they all are, compared to 40+ years ago.
Yeah baby!! That is the upper left corner of a Moog Opus 3 in the foreground, starting at 3:31 (which Herb Deutsch was heavily involved with)!! Thank-you GForce Software for releasing this vid into the wild!
Well done! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you
Awesome documentary, credit to all involved! 🎹 excited for the B Side
Fantastic. I can tell this will be a great one only a few minutes in.
Sterling stuff, what an absolute joy to watch!
thanks for posting this
"Should we put a keyboard on it?"
😮😮😮
Thank you!
This was a joy to watch,thanks so much G Force,y’all rock.⚡️
Great! Thanks for sharing :)
Great video. Thnx
Wow! Amazing stuff! Nice surprise to come up in my recommend videos.
Excellent
Thank you for this
Brillant!!!!
Thanks for this
Superb!
This is excellent
This is great!
Superb, thank you.
Awesome documentary!
This is superb. Brilliant.
so good
Thank you! :)
Darn, what a great work! Thank you :). Pearlman's part was probably the most interesting! Total random thought: Why does Alessandro Cortini look like Katie Holmes? :P
This is amazing
there are ten thousand watts of passion in this documentary.
This is fantastic
This was great
20mins in and I'm loving this. Ta
This is incredible.
I have a Voyager XL and I'll concur, it's a beautiful sound.
...Synthastic...!!!
Thank You!!! :)
very interesting
Fantastic!!!
This is wonderful 👏👏👏
Cannot say i’ve heard of a lot of the artists here (i am more of a Synth Funk/Space Disco synth dude), but i really enjoyed this documentary.
MOOG always sound german to me as a kid, when I used to dream of having one
this deserves way more views. Change the thumbnail to a synth dude!
I thought this was about Sparks the band. Haha. Great vid. I’m a synth player
Anyone know the name of the song that starts at 14:50?
What's the song at 22:40?
23:20 - this. Moog was ELP, grandpa kinda stuff at the time.
I’d never heard the Mellotron/Chamberlin story, even though I have the Chambertron Rack extension. Crazy to think that the Mellotron probably would not exist if Harry Chamberlin had hired a different window washer that day, or just wasn’t playing the instrument when Franzen was there.
Dave Spiers you are Adam Curtis of Synth Documentaries!