'I wouldn't call this music'

As what would have been the 78th birthday of Robert Moog is celebrated in a Google doodle, we visit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism – for this interview by Don Snowden, published in the Los Angeles Times in 1981, in which he shares his views on the new synth godsIt's not unusual for a musician to become controversial, but it is rare for a musical instrument to be debated. Robert Moog may have envisioned a limited market for synthesisers when he deve...

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