The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #146559   Message #3394035
Posted By: GUEST,Tony
23-Aug-12 - 11:24 AM
Thread Name: Mixing acoustic / electric instruments
Subject: RE: Mixing acoustic / electric instruments
I once had a recording of Earl Scruggs playing his banjo along with a Moog synthesizer, and talking about it with the Moog player (it may have been Robert Moog himself), who said he can make the Moog sound like any other instrument. And Earl was saying that he supported anything new and always liked to try new combinations of instruments and hated the same old thing all the time.

I can't remember what that album was. It must have been an LP or 8-track. I'll try to think of it. I think it's the same one that had Joan Baez talking about the terrific crush she had on Earl Scruggs when she first met him, and saying that she ran into the bathroom to tell someone about it, and the someone she found there turned out to be Earl's wife. And then he played his banjo along with her, maybe on "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word."