Mix It Up and Start Again
- Episode aired Jan 30, 2015
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[talking about the advent of the Moog synthesiser]
Rick Wakeman: Up until the Moog, what used to happen was, if you were in a band you had a Hammond organ or an electric piano, and it came to your solo. The rest of the band would all have to go on the floor, they'd all come down to a sort of "tippy-tappy, tippy-tappy", while you did your best. And they'd all be looking at each other going "Oh, isn't it sad?". And even the audience would go "It's the organ solo". And then "Finished, have you? Great!" And they'd crank up the guitar and away you'd go. *This* came along, and I remember at one of the first rehearsals when I brought it along - I thought Steve Howe was gonna die, basically. Steve's was one of my great friends and he went "What?" Because of the nature of the way it's made up with the waveforms, it's "thicker" than any guitar can ever be - it'll cut through concrete, that thing. It's the keyboard equivalent to a tambourine. It will cut through anything. Suddenly, Bob Moog has given keyboard players a solo instrument that we could turn round to the guitarist and smile and go...
[he makes a middle-finger gesture]
Rick Wakeman: Up yours, sunshine!
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