Peter Frampton

[DuzyEverwork]

OK chaps and chapesses this is a long shot.. on one of his albums (in the 70's or 80's) Peter Frampton 'spoke' the lyrics of the song through some kind of voice distortion box, anyone got any recolection of this and can tell me what the track was??... A big hug and a lick of my lolly for anyone who can help! :o)

[Jenny Tools]

Do you mean "show me the way" from the album Frampton comes alive.

[DuzyEverwork]

ooooh, Jennifer.. and so quickly too.. do you really think this is it?.. I have a megga lolly for you.. meet me on the other side!

[Jenny Tools]

You can hear it here :-

http://www.frampton.com/alive1.html

and under the equipment heading they explain about the talkbox gismo.

[andy hughes]

Just for interest - the distortion was provided by a very primitive (it was the '70's) arrangement which involved a pipe next to the singer's mouth. The pipe blew air into the mouth, and the singer moved his lips into different shapes to adjust the sound. Early prototypes were positively dangerous - stories emerged of the air pressure being so high that fillings were lost, but these may just be rock and roll legends. If you see the film of Frampton playing the song, he uses the pipe without apparent discomfort, or indeed panic, so maybe they had sorted out the teething (a-ha-ha-ha!) problems by then.

[DuzyEverwork]

No, boys and girls.. that just doesn't seem to be the track, I have listened to the track on the link Jennifer gave me and I dont think thats it.. it was more of a ballady sort of thing.. have another dig into the brain cells for me please :o)

[thewillow]

Was the distortion done with something called a vocoder or a moogatron?

[andy hughes]

Sorry jenny, I wasn't trying to 'upstage' your answer - it wasn't there when I read the Question, our posts must have crossed, as sometimes happens.

[Jenny Tools]

Thats no problem Andy, mate.

(he's got a high Powered rifle u know)

[flirty41]

Well Trudi, I'm cheating here by looking in my Guinness Book of Hit singles, but a couple of his other tunes were 'Baby I Love Your Way', which I remember to be a bit ballady, and 'Do You Feel Like We Do' - both available to listen to on the site the beautiful Jennifer gave a link to. His other hit was 'I'm In You'. Not sure if this will help you or not!

[PaulB]

Are you hiding Flirty?

[MrIxolite]

Didn't he do it on an episode of The Simpsons. The one where Homer joins Hullabaloza (sp?) , as the man who gets shot in the stomach with a cannon ball. Smashing Pumpkins were in it too. "Hi I'm Billy Corgan,Smashing Pumpkins", "I'm Homer Simpson, Smiling Politely", pure genius

[30dayschick]

Do you feel like I do