On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:05:06 -0600,
brittonjames@aristotle.net wrote...
quoted 2 lines It is not a journalists job to please readers. his or her job is to get> It is not a journalists job to please readers. his or her job is to get
> the material and let the reader decide what is what.
I would TOTALLY agree with you here. The problem seems to be that I didnt
decide the same way you did. ;)
quoted 2 lines Again, any twisted facts are the interviewees, and that is more>> Again, any twisted facts are the interviewees, and that is more
>> interesting to me than any third party "facts" you can name.
So you are more interested in any lies or mistruths that appear in the Moog
Issue of GR than you are any facts that appear elsewhere?
quoted 6 lines It is a> It is a
> fact that Moog forced Arp to discontinue use of their 4012 filter,
>which
> was present in the 2600 "blue meanie, early greyfaces, and some
> Odesseys. That is what makes those early models so desirable-the Moog
> chip.
I never denied this, in fact I totally agreed with it. But I went on to say
that to stop at this point and brush ARP off as a "moog rip off" (with
little or no explaination) is utterly wrong. ARP made quite a few stunning
products before and after this that were nothing to do with any Moog
designs. I also went on to say that Moog also faced similar charges for
ripping off designs for ARP and other companies, but no one passes them off
as a "ARP rip off".
Again, I think this point is being hounded on a bit much. It was used as an
example, not as the most glaring or damnable error.
quoted 2 lines I'm not knocking Arp here. They are giants of analogue history. They> I'm not knocking Arp here. They are giants of analogue history. They
> did, however, rip off Bob Moog,
ARP was accused of ripping off Moog Music. Moog Music was accused of ripping
off ARP. To pass either off as a "rip off" of the other is a crass
generalization.
quoted 2 lines and I can't let the chip on somebodys>and I can't let the chip on somebodys
> shoulder distort this piece of the puzzle.
heh, no chip. I love both Arp and Moog and own alot of pieces made by each
(including an ARP white face odyssey w/MOOG filter). And I could care less
either way about who runs, owns, or publishes GR.
quoted 3 lines We're not> We're not
>children.
> We can make up our own minds after reading this stuff.
Which is exatctly what I did, and I posted here about it after someone else
posted their opinion. I dont see any problem with any of that.
I guess we are getting off topic enough to either take it to analogue heaven
or to private email now.
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Rob Williams</>fEEd</>Tempest
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