do you remember the Hendrix vodka?
now here is an another music related reason to drink
the Bob Moog beer!

get few bottles and empty them while listening some synth classics
all profits will be donated to the Bob Moog Foundation

[via Synthtopia]

Moog [DVD + soundtrack Amazon]

This is not brand new but you MUST check out if you haven’t heard about this yet!! This is a film about Bob Moog.

Bob Moog (1934-2005) invented and built electronic musical instruments
for over half a century. From his workshops in upstate New York and
later in rural North Carolina, Moog shaped musical culture with some of
the most inspiring instruments ever created. Moog explains that he "can feel what’s going on in a piece of electronic equipment… it’s something between discovering and witnessing." And he is convinced that many musicians come to "feel" a circuit in a similar way. "They make contact."
In fact, musicians make such strong emotional connections with the
electronics inside a Moog synthesizer that Moog himself has reached
cult hero status. Moog not only made prodigious
contributions to modern music and culture, but he became a character
within an unfolding "American maverick inventor" mythology. Moog
certainly walked and talked the "mad scientist" part, complete with the
fly-away white hair, intense eyes, eccentric mannerisms and a head full
of stories.

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