What would classic rock music have been without Bob Moog? The New York engineer’s musical invention – the world’s first playable music synthesizer – revolutionized the genre when it debuted in the late 1960s, and helped keyboardists to emerge as important figures in rock music. “After a long legal battle, Bob Moog not long ago won back the rights to start marketing synthesizers in his name. The timing couldn’t have been better. After years in the shadows of digital keyboards and software-based synths, the fat bass and piercing highs of analog keyboards have re-emerged — big time.”