{"id":17640,"date":"2013-02-13T00:44:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T05:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17640"},"modified":"2013-02-13T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T13:33:35","slug":"once-and-for-all-best-use-of-the-guitar-talk-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-best-use-of-the-guitar-talk-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Once and For All<\/em>: Best Use of the Guitar Talk Box"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wah. Wah-wah wah-wah wha. Wah wah-wah-wha wah wah…<\/p><\/div>\n

As 2000 Man<\/strong> wrote in his suggestion to conduct this discussion, “It was cool to talk through your guitar way before it was cool to Auto Tune!”<\/p>\n

The Talk Box, I was amazed to learn, is almost as old as your youthful-looking Moderator (“But you don’t look a day<\/em> over 47!” a colleague recently told me). Pedal-steel guitarist Pete Drake introduced this effects box that does stuff those of you more technically minded will better understand if you read about it for yourself, here<\/a>. Such effects go back to the ’30s, which you can also read about on the effects’ Wikipedia page<\/a>. Fascinating stuff that will go on my long list of “Things I Couldn’t Have Invented If I Had a Million Years to Think About Them.”<\/p>\n

The Talk Box came into my world\u2014and likely yours\u2014in the 1970s, that glorious decade of extraneous\u00a0technological\u00a0developments. There are probably a dozen strong candidates for the Best Use of the Guitar Talk Box<\/em> that I am forgetting, so you may write-in an “Other” candidate.\u00a0The nominees and the RTH People’s Poll follow…after the jump<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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Peter Frampton, “Do You Feel Like We Do”<\/strong> (go to 1:50 mark)<\/p>\n