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DOUG McKECHNIE

The Complete San Francisco Moog 1968–72

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IN the telling, it sounds a bit like make-believe: the West Coast hippie who borrowed one of the very first Moog Modular Series III synthesisers back in 1968, developed his own live improvisatory style, opened up the ill-fated Altamont Free

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