Tag: 1969

Music That You Can Moog To – Captain Cool Presents: “28 Big Ones” by Hot Butter

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The moog synthesiser is an incredibly interesting instrument: as versatile as the human voice, essential to the rise of prog rock in the 1970s and still a hallmark for synthesiser virtuosity today. What a shame that one of its first popular instrumental compositions has been appropriated by a blue CGI frog that lived only to… Continue reading Music That You Can Moog To – Captain Cool Presents: “28 Big Ones” by Hot Butter

Songs on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Syd Barrett’s “The Madcap Laughs”

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The name Syd Barrett, much like the name Pink Floyd, always brings with it a certain myth. A certain flair of misunderstood genius, of an artist lost to the depths and despairs of his own psyche. It is a name that conjures up stories before music, summons the image of a struggling artist before the… Continue reading Songs on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Syd Barrett’s “The Madcap Laughs”