Moog Master 
by Stephen McDill Published: January 8,2012
Tags: Beach Boys, Bill Hemsath, Brandon Flowers, Electronic keyboardists, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Lady Gaga, Minimoog, monophonic analog synthesizer, R.A. Moog Inc, Vangelis, “Good Vibrations”, “Hemsath’s toy.”
Electronic keyboardists today from Lady Gaga to Brandon Flowers owe their careers to Bill Hemsath. While he was never a voice coach, talent agent or label producer, the Madison resident is probably one of the most overlooked figures in modern music history. As the inventor of the Minimoog, a first-generation modern synthesizer, Hemsath and his [...] [...]
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