Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Feeling Moog-y

Even in your darkest hours, you can find enlightenment in:

cover versions of early 70s songs played by John Keating on the Moog.

Such as:



And:



And:



And if you were wondering whether you needed to own the entire album: you probably don't. Much of the rest of it comprises original compositions, which generally speaking haven't survived the passage of time as well as the covers have. Plus it contains an entirely unwelcome version of "Jesus Christ Superstar". Perhaps you had to be there. (Come to think of it, I was; and I had no time for it then, either.)

My dad would have been 85 today. That has nothing to do with any of this, but it is, of course, worth noting. He was a fine man.