Amongst recording, rehearsing, gigging and preparing for the UK release of Unexpected Falls, we’ve also recently been working on an animated video for one of the new tracks we’re recording. We had the idea to possibly include an 80’s style montage in the video. Going through countless video clips I stumbled across this gem…
and then i got completely sidetracked…….

which lead me to this Rolling Stone cover from 1983…….

i think thats a panasonic platinum boombox Darth Vader’s holding. Heres the original ad…

gotta love earth, wind & fire

i love vocoders and talk boxes.
mmm…i’ve always wanted to own a talk-box, and this is where things started to go a bit pear-shaped.

www.ehx.com/products/voice-box(some pretty cool videos up there of the machine in action)
and from there on to thomann with credit card out…
Shit.

You should also check out OnePixelOut’s new blog design. I especially love her RSS & Twitter icons.
Genius.