The Dead Thread - Bilge

P PapeToaTane Member Salt Lake City, Utah Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Posts: 518	P PapeToaTane Posted posted on Mon, Aug 22, 2005 10:50 AM On 2005-08-22 10:05, mrsmiley wrote: On 2005-08-22 10:03, mrsmiley wrote: Robert Moog, synthesizer innovator and theremin fan has passed away at age 71 in Ashville, NC. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050822/ap_on_en_mu/obit_moog bloop bloop wah wah zip! I like this part "Keyboardist Walter (later Wendy) Carlos demonstrated the range of Moog's synthesizer by recording the hit album "Switched-On Bach" in 1968 using only the new instrument instead of an orchestra." No "Walter" didn't get a sex change operation. Wendy was born Wendy but recorded as "Walter" because she didn't think a woman musician would be taken seriously! Not true. Walter/Wendy Carlos' sex-change operation was widely publicized and was one of the very first. I was a fan then, and now. Circa 1967. See: http://www.who2.com/wendycarlos.html

On 2005-08-22 10:05, mrsmiley wrote:

On 2005-08-22 10:03, mrsmiley wrote:
Robert Moog, synthesizer innovator and theremin fan has passed away at age 71 in Ashville, NC.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050822/ap_on_en_mu/obit_moog

bloop bloop wah wah zip!

I like this part "Keyboardist Walter (later Wendy) Carlos demonstrated the range of Moog's synthesizer by recording the hit album "Switched-On Bach" in 1968 using only the new instrument instead of an orchestra." No "Walter" didn't get a sex change operation. Wendy was born Wendy but recorded as "Walter" because she didn't think a woman musician would be taken seriously!

Not true. Walter/Wendy Carlos' sex-change operation was widely publicized and was one of the very first. I was a fan then, and now. Circa 1967. See:

http://www.who2.com/wendycarlos.html

Post #181156 by PapeToaTane on Mon, Aug 22, 2005 10:50 AM