'tis a very sad day indeed. He started the revolution!

What a year so far; so many great people have passed.

Synthesizer innovator Moog dies at 71

Monday, August 22, 2005; Posted: 12:03 p.m. EDT (16:03 GMT)

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.