{"id":49,"date":"2008-05-12T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T03:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2008-11-03T22:19:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:19:58","slug":"pink-barbie-phone-red-freaker-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/armanbohn.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/12\/pink-barbie-phone-red-freaker-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Barbie Phone + Red Freaker (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time … in 1994 … I had this pink plastic Barbie phone. When you pressed its buttons, it would say things like:<\/p>\n

“Let’s have a party!”<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

“I like the beach!”<\/p>\n

I was in the incredibly strange band “Krusters Kronomid” at the time. I would plug the phone, and various other electronic devices<\/a>, into my electric guitar – the K1. It was quite theatrical.<\/p>\n

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Rafe Wadleigh, the other guitarist\/bass player in Krusters, picked up the ingenious whammy pedal<\/a> and we used it quite a bit back then. Mike Seilo, our singer, called it the “red freaker”.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I ended up sending Barbie through the whammy pedal and “scratching” the sound effects and phrases that it spit out. I would trigger the sounds from its keypad while dropping the pitch with the whammy pedal.<\/p>\n

Alas, the Barbie phone is nowhere to be found. Maybe she is in a trailer somewhere gorging herself on AA batteries and having triplets with a G.I. Joe talking backpack.<\/p>\n

We did record it in the song “Moth on Bass” at Avast Studios<\/a> in Seattle. It broke while setting up to do the take and Stuart Hallerman (the owner of Avast) threw it on the repair bench and fixed it for me.<\/p>\n

We ended up recording the Barbie phone, bass and drums all at once, so the performance you hear isn’t an overdub … pre protools … 2″ 24 track … recorded and mixed by Kevin Suggs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Talking Barbie Phone solo in the song “Moth on Bass”:<\/p>\n[audio:mothonbass.mp3]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time … in 1994 … I had this pink plastic Barbie phone. When you pressed its buttons, it would say things like: “Let’s have a party!” and “I like the beach!” I was in the incredibly strange …<\/p>\n

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