Big City Music is always sharing cool stuff, but this may take the prize. 
The father of modern electronic music, Bob Moog, signs a giant rubber duckie for Stephi. 
There’s got to be a great story behind this photo - if you know what’s going on, leave a comment!

The Bob Moog Foundation is celebrating its second anniversary and is highlighting their recent accomplishments:

The Bob Moog Foundation hosted the first ever Moogfest Symposium with a panel of pioneering synthesists.
The Foundation now has music available for download on its MySpace page. Many of the tracks come from the Mooged-Out: Asheville CD. The Mooged-Out CD is [...]

Moog Music has announced the dates for Moogfest 2008 - October 13, 2008.
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Bob Moog’s namesake analog synthesizers helped catapult the careers of such diverse artists as rockers Edgar Winter, Todd Rundgren, Gary Numan and Devo, funksters Parliament-Funkadelic and Zapp, disco producer Giorgio Moroder with disco diva Donna Summer, fusioneers Chick Corea with Return To Forever, [...]

The Moog Foundation has added more video memorials to Bob Moog to its YouTube site. , including this tribute from Roger Powell.

Remember Andy Moog Boy’s Transistor Ladder Filter tattoo?
Last time we saw it, it was looking a bit sore and nasty.
Now it doesn’t look sore at all.

The tat reproduces the circuit design of Bob Moog’s seminal Transistor Ladder Filter. Now that’s hardcore!

The Bob Moog Foundation has filmed a collection of videos that feature musicians, composers and others reflecting on the influence of Bob Moog and the Moog synthesizer.
Here are a few of my favorites:
Larry Fast, Synergy

Eric Persing, Spectasonics

Nick Montoya, Volt Per Octive Band

It’s a nice start to a living memorial to Moog.

The Bob Moog Foundation today announced that it was honoring what would have been the 74th birthday of synth pioneer Bob Moog with the release of a new synth CD, Amin Bhatia’s Virtuality.
The first half of Virtuality is comprised of ten tracks which transport the listener through an orchestral and electronic voyage through the [...]

 

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The Bob Moog Foundation has been awarded an “Archiving and Preservation Planning Grant” from the GRAMMY Foundation to assess the preservation needs of the over 300 reel-to-reel tapes in Bob’s archives.
These tapes include seminal works in synthesis from the mid-60s to the late 70s, such as works from Herb Deutsch, Wendy Carlos, Larry Fast, Isao [...]

The Bob Moog Foundation has started a blog.
There’s not much there yet, except some photos.

Moogfest, in conjunction with The Bob Moog Foundation, has announced the first annual Moogfest Symposium.
On the evening of September 20th, 2007, luminaries in the field of electronic music will gather at the Music Department of Columbia University to discuss how the life and work of synthesizer maverick Dr. Robert Moog has affected their own work.
Members [...]