"Hey, it's Peter Frampton time!"
Posted by skirky on 30 May 2008 - 9:27pm.
That voicebox thingy. Never caught on, did it? There's probably a warehouse full of them stacked next to Godley and Creme's gizmo and a consignment of Parsons-White stringbenders. Still, a few people bought them, including Bernie Marsden out of Whitesnake (or is it a steroided up Emo Phillips?). This video is teetering on the edge of so-wrong-it's-rightness. Lord Lovey happily restrains himself by singing the original "She's a big teaser", and a simply splendid example of the seemingly lost art of the Hammond Organ double-handed end-to-end pphhwwwwhhhoooooaaaawwhhh...there must be aword for it, surely?
ps bonus points for anyone who can identify the origin of the thread title
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Talkbox, innit
Actually quite a few people used the talkbox, some people still do. You can get a digital emulation of it though, using formant filters rather than your own mouth which is a bit less... well messy, frankly. I think some of Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer was through one, and there was some in the solo on Keep Talking by Pink Floyd.
I bet wikipedia knows more.
As for the Gizmo I'd love one but they've mostly been supplanted by the E-Bow now. It'll be interesting to see how the Moog Guitar turns out...
B Bender
One less B bender in that warehouse - I bought a B bender Tele just before Christmas!
Actually THE most disgusting instrument to fall from favour was the bloody vocoder. Hideous.
Bit of a tangent..
Congrats on buying yourself a Tele... just did the same after a 20-yr wait - something along the lines of "if I don't do it now, I probably never will" - am now the proud owner of a US Vintage '62 Custom... should've done it bloody YEARS ago!!
Good man
Too right. Do yourself a favour and now get a Pignose from Thomann for about 35 quid - bargain!
Pignose
Looks great, but finances currently stretched.. guess I'll have to make do with my late 70's Peavey Classic - only problem is by the time you get a good clean tone, the windows are rattling....
(Mind you, what's the problem with that???!!!)
Ahh... a nice bit of vintage Trousersnake...
marvellous. When men still knew how to ROCK (to the very top, all nite long, like a hurricane etc)
Actually I quite enjoyed it
- nothing wrong with a bit of no nonsense blues rock. The Beatles couldn't rock for toffee.
Don't get me wrong...
I enjoyed it too!
Ah, Whitesnake
my first gig! Glasgow Apollo 1981. Absolutely wonderful!
Joe Walsh, Rocky Mountain Way...talkbox innit
just after the (!)bass solo...at around 3.45.
Thread title conundrum solved - world saved
Lodoun Wainwright, live album So Damn Happy, duet with Martha called You Never Phone where they do a bit of 'chika wah wah' extemporising which, as dad comments, begins to resemble the Framp - and I claim my prize. Er, what is it by the way? Not Frampton Comes Alive please!
Oh and Whitesnake were my first gig too, 78-ish Lyceum ballroom in the Strand. Gigs were so much rowdier in those days - the violence between the support band Dead Fingers Talk and the mainly 'meathead' audience was phenomenal. That was before the mighty Lord joined, kicking off decades of incestuous interband ex Deep Purple member swapping, reaching it's most comic moment when Gillan joined Black Sabbath.