Manuel Gottsching Talks About Moog Instruments

Wow, almost one year to the day after-the-fact, I'm finally posting this video footage of Manuel Gottsching at one of the three U.S. concerts he performed last summer (his first time performing in the United States).

As I'm a big fan of his music and his legendary group Ash Ra Tempel (later shortened to Ashra), I made contact with him just before his arrival in New York to see if I could help out by videotaping the concerts (which he was happy to have done). I also asked if I could shoot some interview footage so I could help out the Moog Foundation with a little video of his visit so they could post it on their youtube channel.

The Moog Foundation has been (happily) very busy lately with some wonderful stuff and not as interested in posting new videos with so much other work to be done, so I thought I'd finally put this on youtube so like-minded folks could enjoy a brief snippet of one of the excellent performances Herr Gottsching gave -- and also hear him reminisce a bit about his own and the Moog's wonderful legacy.

Hopefully someday the concert footage will be edited together and sold via his website. For now, please enjoy this excerpt (and if you're not already familiar with his work, please do visit www.ashra.com to find out more).

And of course, don't forget to visit the Moog Foundation at www.moogfoundation.org

Thanks as always for taking a look,

Scooter McCrae

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[scootermccrae]

You are very welcome. Glad you liked the video as it was an honor to be able to videotape Manuel talking about a subject he's so passionate about. I hope he and Illona find their way back to the United States again for more concerts soon.

[JohnLRice]

Excellent!

[liverawkstar]

Wow

thank you for putting this up

Manuel is my favorite

especially since I play synths and guitar

never knew he spoke such good english

[tubellarbells]

Thanks, Scooter. I was lucky to meet Manuel and Illona here in Chile some years some years ago and I hope to see him playing live some day, too. Good video!

[charlycrett]

WOW!! O_O Manuel Gottsching...

[donnieandsarah]

Wow, great listening to one of the giants of the electronic music world. It was a different world prior to digital synths.

[Factory051]

nice post. great insight.