Trent Reznor’s future began in Youngstown

Moog, the company whose name is synonymous with the synthesizer musical instrument, is phasing out its Minimoog Voyager after 13 years of production. To mark the event, the company has posted a video on YouTube of an interview with Trent Reznor, in which he explains what Moog has meant to his career.

Reznor, of course, is the visionary founder of Nine Inch Nails, the landmark rock band that introduced the industrial sound, and has always been linked to Moog. He used the synthesizer to create an aural landscape that throbbed and buzzed like a futuristic factory, creating a dehumanizing condition and then overcoming it with defiance, all in the same song.

In the video, Reznor recalls “the greatest day” of his life: when he bought his first Moog synthesizer at New York Music in Youngstown. It was in the early 1980s, and he was a teenager living in Mercer, Pa.

“Through chore-doing and begging, my grandparents bought it for me,” says Reznor. “It was deeply satisfying ... a huge turning point [in my life].” Reznor mastered that first synthesizer and then launched his career shortly after.

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