RIP Voodoo Chile

[LeFinPepere]

Aha!!

 

[Cougar]

That's one crazy whammy bar. I've just got a standard pitch-bend wheel on my Motif XS. It's not nearly as sensationalistic (but does the same thing).

 

[walrus]

I don't get the "RIP". I don't think he passed away, did he?

walrus

 

[LeFinPepere]

I don't get the "RIP". I don't think he passed away, did he?

walrus

Hendrix died ,sep 18, 1970 .

 

[walrus]

Hendrix died ,sep 18, 1970 .

Of course! But the video is of Doley! That messed me up!

walrus

 

[LeFinPepere]

Sorry! I guess Doley is OK...hopefully...

 

[Zelja]

That was wild, enjoyed that! I'm assuming that whammy bar is an aftermarket addition to that Hohner clavinet?

Ashamed to say I have never heard of this guy until now, and I'm from the same country.

 

[Canard]

Well a Hohner Clavinet with a whammy bar! I would like to see the hood up on that beast, and who knows how the whammy bar works across that many strings and how the instrument manages to stay in tune.

Now off on a Hnedrix tangent, what about a My First Sony children's cassette recorder in the hands of crazy Swiss woman, Erika Stucky, backed by the Euro-Industrial band, The Young Gods, here on acoustic guitars and toy megaphones? The boys look pretty kazooed!

 

[Canard]

OK. Curiosity hasn't killed this cat, ... yet.

I went looking to see if I could find how the Whammy Clavinet works and found Mr. Doley, himself, opening the hood for a show and tell session:

 

[Rambozo96]

Makes you wonder how many strings he goes through because on my strats and when I had guitars with Kahlers and Floyd Rose bridges if I used the vibrato like he does I would break a string within 2 weeks. Whereas usually for some reason even my very heavily used guitars strings go clinically dead before they break. Hell on my D-35 I had the same set of strings on it for 7 months! That and I wonder how he keeps from getting knocked way out of tune.

 

[Canard]

Total and absolute veer!

Franz Treichler, the lead singer of the Swiss Euro-Industrial band, The Young Gods, the totally wasted dude with the little green and yellow toy megaphone in the video clip with Erika Stucky above, has been seen using a Guild guitar.

Here from around 2010 with headstock forward: