1 janv. 1969 - The Kustom Electronics talk box "The Bag"

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The Kustom Electronics device "The Bag" was the first mass market talk box and was housed in a decorative bag slung over the shoulder like a wine bottle. It used a 30-watt driver and was released to the mass music market in early 1969, two years before Bob Heil's talk box became widely available. The Bag is claimed to have been designed by Doug Forbes, who states that exactly the same concept (speaker attached to a plastic tube and inserted into the mouth) had previously been patented as an artificial larynx.

Stevie Wonder gave the talk box its first national television prominence, performing a medley of The Carpenters and Jackson 5 songs all via a Kustom Bag live on the David Frost show in 1972. The performance was latterly sampled by Frank Ocean.

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, who automatically doubles his guitar leads by signing them as plays (whether on mic or not), was an obvious candidate for both the talk box and the vocoder, experimenting with merging voice and instrument into a single unified sound. The effect was employed during the lengthy guitar solo sections of "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Got to Be Crazy" on the 1974 tour, which would eventually become "Sheep" and "Dogs" on the Animals album.[citation needed]

Jeff Beck used the Kustom Bag talk box on "She's a Woman" from his 1975 release Blow by Blow, and was seen using it for the song on BBC television program "Five Faces of the Guitar" in 1974 in which he also explains its use to the host of the show.

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