ABC news sure got this wrong about Moog

........."Among the other classics using a Moog: the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again," and Stevie Wonder's urban epic "Livin' for the City."....

If I remember correctly, it was a 2600 on Fooled. And by the way, that brings the question, how is Pearlman doing nowadays? He's easily the same age as Moog was. Or even David Friend of Arp (although he was younger).

I'm not really up for thinking about that at the moment.. i never had a chance to personally meet Bob moog, but from interviews and his instruments he did great things for music... perfect combination of organics and technology...He will be missed... For the thousands of synth freaks like myself we thank you bob..

I remember reading that Townsend was messing around with a couple of different arpeggiators at the time - don't know which one made it to the final cut.

What a testament to someone who made such an impact it became kind of a brand name. "Listen to the Moog on that" was kind of a generalization for all early synths I guess!

Keep this in mind. You know the correct answers.

What do you think the accuracy is in their "news" when reporting on a subject you know little about?

Ain't that the truth.

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From: http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equip-baba.htm

For Won

It's not ABC getting it wrong, that's part of the AP obit running in this (8/23) morning's papers.

Let's peel back the curtain a moment.

AP, Reuters, etc. have canned bios of noteworthy people ready to go - they just plug in the date and particulars of the death, and there it goes. There was a mini scandal a few years ago when somebody screwed up and the CNN "dead pool" ended up on a publicly viewable server. For a few hours you could browse canned obits for Reagan, Gorbachev, George H.W. Bush, and so on, lacking only the date and location of death.

Anyway, these canned bios are prepared by writers who cull the clip files for interesting tidbits. The clip files contain previously published material, so it is considered "safe" - as in previously fact-checked by the original source.

So what happens is this: In 1975, somebody in Des Moines, or Peoria, or wherever prints that Moog synths were used by Stevie Wonder. In 1985, somebody searches the archives to prepare for a Bob Moog article, sees the Stevie Wonder reference and adds in an album title based on the date. In 1995, somebody preps a standard canned bio, sees the 1985 article and runs with it.

This is the process by which Ozzy Osbourne's obit will contain references to eating bats, pigeons, and live chickens on stage with Black Sabbath.

Best quote from the Moog obituary:

R.I.P. Bob.

When a newspaper prints something that is incorrect, the newspaper is also incorrect. Dan Rather learned this (finally). You have to check your sources.

The best articles on Moog were the ones where the writer(s) actually wrote the article.

For the worst (best?) examples of these copy/paste innaccuracies and convoluted logic, see The SSS Political Party.

We'll see how any questions concerning Bob Moog end up on the game show Jeopardy. I would guess that they check their info and get the answers correct. Network news and newspapers? ...