Great Voice-Box tracks.

equalsql

Who remembers the voice-box? It's use appears to have fallen out of favour in recent years.

My favourite use of it is on a couple of tracks from the 70s
Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way and Peter Frampton's Do You Feel Like I Do from his Comes Alive album.

Any favourite s you'd like to share.

And.. if anyone dares mention..choke..Livin' On A Prayer by Blow Jobie then may their balls be pickled in nitric acid.

Solo at 3:07

Stinkfoot

Rocky Mountain Way for sure...great track.

Also Haitian Divorce by Steely Dan......although I believe the voice-box effect was added after the original solo had been recorded without it.

Does anyone know of any good voice-box sims out there without having to shove a plastic tube in your gob?! I'd guess that's why it didn't catch on as much as the wah....would be much less undignified if you could just pedal in the effect!

Teetonetal

It's my life - Bon Jovi



Anything Goes - GnR springs to mind

ICBM

Stinkfoot said:

Does anyone know of any good voice-box sims out there without having to shove a plastic tube in your gob?! I'd guess that's why it didn't catch on as much as the wah....would be much less undignified if you could just pedal in the effect!

Danelectro Free Speech.

Anything is better than the vomit-inducing, filling-loosening, amp-killing lash-up that is an original talk box.

FelineGuitars

Scorpions -The Zoo
Motley Crue - Kickstart my heart
Bon Jovi - living on a Prayer
Alice In Chains - man in the box

Kebabkid

The Rocktron Banshee's quite good.

Don't quote me but I think the modern day ones have their own preamp etc and don't need a load box like the originals. Is that right?

keithf

THE ZOO,

scorpions = winner

equalsql

FelineGuitars said:

Bon Jovi - living on a Prayer

Noooooooooooo! May your gonads be dipped in boiling fat for daring to mention such horror in my thread!  

english_bob

Ya rockist bastids.

english_bob

And this one is fun:

CHRISB50

Snarky Puppy - Sleeper

joneve

FelineGuitars said:

Scorpions -The Zoo
Motley Crue - Kickstart my heart
Bon Jovi - living on a Prayer
Alice In Chains - man in the box

This, in a nutshell. 

Man in the Box being my all time favourite. 

frank1985

FelineGuitars

equalsql said:

FelineGuitars said:

Bon Jovi - living on a Prayer

Noooooooooooo! May your gonads be dipped in boiling fat for daring to mention such horror in my thread!  

Ok Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion (and also Walk This on the LIVE BOOTLEG ALBUM)

StageStruck

Hair Of The Dog - Nazareth
Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton

I seem to recall a clip of Jeff Beck using one in the 70s, not sure what track it was though

richardhomer

StageStruck said:

I seem to recall a clip of Jeff Beck using one in the 70s, not sure what track it was though

His cover of the Beatles’ ‘She’s A Woman’.

AlexC

Gilmour uses one on Floyd's Animals album. 

Stuckfast

None of them can hold a candle to this guy.

guitars4you

John Miles on Slowdown can be added to the above list

fields5069

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the absolute best use of voicebox in the history of stuff:



The fun begins around 3:14

guitars4you

fields5069 said:

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the absolute best use of voicebox in the history of stuff:



The fun begins around 3:14

I'm led to believe that was the first version of a voice box - sadly I recall it on Junior Choice Radio in the 70's - Sat morning with Ed Stewpot I think it was ?????????????????