{"id":48,"date":"2008-04-03T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-11-02T13:23:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T20:23:39","slug":"robotic-headgear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/03\/robotic-headgear\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Headgear"},"content":{"rendered":"

It must have been 1995. I was playing in my first real band – “Krusters Kronomid”. I was in my one bedroom appartment in Bellingham getting ready for a show at the Viking Union, when Chris Walla showed up. He seemed concerned that maybe I had been in an accident.<\/p>\n

At that time, I was having a lot of fun connecting electronic sounds into my guitar. Rafe Wadleigh (the guitarist\/bassist) for Krusters had taken some headgear out of a construction helmet. I wired up a strange voice changing toy and connected it to the headgear.<\/p>\n

Chris snapped this picture of me as I was testing it out.<\/p>\n

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Later that night, I tested it out on stage. The following is a worn-out tape recording of that test. <\/p>\n

Rafe starts out playing a bass line causing the robo-headgear to go haywire. Then Jason McGerr (the drummer) comes in with the drums … and Mike Seilo (the singer) just looks on in disbelief.<\/p>\n

The robot voice blares out – seemingly with a mind of its own. I<\/em> was suppose to be in control of it. It had other ideas.<\/p>\n

I yell “Wait … wait … quiet down … wait … it’s picking up too much stage noise.” <\/p>\n

My favorite part is when Mike says “Let’s cut the side show and play a tune!” <\/p>\n

WATCH YOUR EARS AND SPEAKERS! VERY HARSH SOUNDS!<\/strong><\/p>\n[audio:headgear.mp3]\n

It ended up sounding like a naughty robot throwing a tantrum. It broke the moment I took it off and I never bothered to fix it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It must have been 1995. I was playing in my first real band – “Krusters Kronomid”. I was in my one bedroom appartment in Bellingham getting ready for a show at the Viking Union, when Chris Walla showed up. He …<\/p>\n

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