rock on mister moog

Brace yourselves, 'ku believers, for I, The Haiku Master, am the bearer of terrible news: synthesizer visionary Robert A. Moog has fingered his last keyboard! (Link goes to the always reliable Yahoo! News.)

Robert A. Moog: Superstar

That's right! The man whose fantastic music boxes gave life to everything from The Beatles' Abbey Road to A Clockwork Orange's soundtrack -- deader than a doorknob! But weep not, for Ol' Doc Moog's probably rocking out with Valhalla's all-star band as I type these words. I can see it now, as if it were a vision from on high: Sinatra! Hendrix! Lennon! Thunders! Moon! Entwhistle! Ramone (x3)! And now... MOOG!!!

Nobody Built A Better Synthesizer Than Moog

That's all for tonight, loyal readers -- the Pharaoh of 5-7-5 can stand no more of this morbid talk! I'm off to pay tribute to Moog the only way I know how; an eight-hour marathon rendition of Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," played on Castle Haiku's Moog Synthesizer with the Haiku-Bot accompanying me on drums!

Best,