Some of you have heard me brag that I got to play with the Moog synthesizer setup that Herbie Hancock used to record Headhunters when I was a teenager. I found a pic of what I believe to be that rig! That is Different Fur Trading Company owner Patrick Gleeson with Herbie Hancock, and two stacked Modular Moogs (somehow I remember them being called MKIIIs, but I can't find any reference to that). I think one Moog belonged to Patrick and one was rented from a studio down south for the session. I recall it being called "the biggest Moog in the world". Has to be around 1971 as I think I see an ARP 2600P in the background. Never met Herbie, I just got to play with the rig one weekend. IIRC there was an Echoplex to the left of the stack that was used in a really crazy combo with the sequencer, the white noise source, a LP filter and a VCA to create a sort of "random trigger" sound that reproduced the quiver of a horn player's lips. A cat named David Litwin was my teacher. At the time he was working at Different Fur and making soundtracks for porno flicks.
Check out Herbie's AKG 240s...high impedance cans rule.
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