Tony Pendrey

I'm pretty sure that the man who claims to have invented this guitar technique is the one and only Jeff Beck.

He modestly called it "Beck's Box" and used it on the modestly titled "Beck's Boogie".

I have been known to do a "Becks Boogie" after 32 bottles of that german beer.

Ah Yes, the Soviet Union. All them wheatfields and ballet in the evenings

ollie

A talk box is not a guitar technique, it is an electronic device,an effect if you like,i'm a beck fan but i'm not aware of him inventing the device,i thought it came from a company called Heil.

cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

samkydd

I remember Peter Frampton over used the talk box slightly ever so much on his famous late 70s album Frampton Comes Alive. Cher must have used something similar, or a modern equivilent on her big 90s hit I Believe

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"

ollie

It's called a vocoder,originally hardware, now available as a vst instument (software)

cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

1tech

The Pye electrical products you saw promoted were nothing to do with the original Pye. Mistral International Pty were using the Pye wordmark within Australia for a while but not the logo, I believe Philips allowed the "PYE" wordmark rights to lapse in the Australian market and Mistral took advantage of this. Mistral have since discontinued showing "PYE" on their website so maybe they faced legal challenges in their use of it, I don't know. A similar thing has happened in the USA, this time with Funai being the company selling the American "PYE" wordmark branded products, it may be that they lease the use of the name from Philips as Funai manufacture DVD players and recorders for Philips these days since Philips outsourced manufacturing of those items. Today you can still find Pye legacy companies around such as ComGroup Australia in Australia and Sepura plc - digital mobile radio communication, tetra private digital mobile radio pmr in the UK who continue on from Pye's original Telecommunications businesses. Pye records became part of PolyGram and then Universal Music Group. Philips still retain the rights to the Pye name and logo but have sold off most of the original businesses over the years.

tgunnell

Pye's main factory was in lowestoft the company was bought by philips who pledge that they would keep pye a british product maker but philips invested no real money and eventually this factory made philips tv's under the pye name.philips were going to shut the factory but it was bought by sanyo.sanyo as stopped making tv's with crt's but now assembles flat screen sets the factory is still going but with a much reduced workforce.also the southend factory was ekco's who philips also bought

deckard

Gawd! Those were the days Ollie! I remember in my youth, me and me mates in the band made a "talk box" ourselves by pre-amping a little driver speaker and then attaching a plastic tube to it with gaffa tape. Said tube was then tied to the mike and when playing yer mouth went over the tube to get the sound required.....it worked too! erm until the inevitable spittle ran down the tube and fried everthing!!Ahh yep, those were the days! ta ta for now, Decks.

"and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"

David Brent

I can remember seeing Peter Frampton in concert back in the seventies and he used such a device frequently.

You can hear the results on his famous "Live" album.

Dave.