Comments on: CatSynth Pic: Waldorf Pulse and Cats http://www.ptank.com/blog/2007/01/catsynth-pic-waldorf-pulse-and-cats/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=catsynth-pic-waldorf-pulse-and-cats cats, synthesizers, music, art, opinion Sun, 19 Feb 2012 04:56:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: whaleshaman http://www.ptank.com/blog/2007/01/catsynth-pic-waldorf-pulse-and-cats/#comment-2255 whaleshaman Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/catsynth/index.php?entry=entry070131-120637#comment-2255 certainly without cats the synthesizer would never even have come into existence AS WE KNOW IT. few know that robert "moog" really was a cat! his name is more correctly spelled "mewg," but changed to hide his real identity. he had a cute little sporty car with the license plate "moog," which he parked on broadway near columbia university in the riotous good old days [late 60s, early 70s]. people used to stand around and stare, and through the fog of "herbal" smoke, proclaim knowingly: oh, man, he is SUCH a cool CAT. and btw, end the war but sieze the dean's office first. i suppose you're wondering how he got away with being a cat and having a drivers' license. apparently there was a motor vehicle office back in the 60s, on central avenue in white plains [near the county center where i went to music camp in the summer of '59]. the employees in that particular office were unusually corrupt [driven insane by the music camp's awful band rehearsals] and would license "anybody" who showed up. so that's how bobby the cool cat got to drive a car on broadway. true story -- parts of it anyway. ;-) certainly without cats the synthesizer would never even have come into existence AS WE KNOW IT.

few know that robert "moog" really was a cat! his name is more correctly spelled "mewg," but changed to hide his real identity.

he had a cute little sporty car with the license plate "moog," which he parked on broadway near columbia university in the riotous good old days [late 60s, early 70s].

people used to stand around and stare, and through the fog of "herbal" smoke, proclaim knowingly: oh, man, he is SUCH a cool CAT. and btw, end the war but sieze the dean's office first.

i suppose you're wondering how he got away with being a cat and having a drivers' license.

apparently there was a motor vehicle office back in the 60s, on central avenue in white plains [near the county center where i went to music camp in the summer of '59]. the employees in that particular office were unusually corrupt [driven insane by the music camp's awful band rehearsals] and would license "anybody" who showed up.

so that's how bobby the cool cat got to drive a car on broadway.

true story — parts of it anyway.

;-)

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