Re: Wah Wah, Re: [bomp] You can even make your coffee taste like a sitar!

[Michael Baker <roky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was in a band once. None of us could play. in fact none of us had 
instruments, save for 7 spatulas, a dulcimer, and two drunk cats. We called 
ourselves the wah wah crutch. we did a 60 minute version of don't call me 
nigger whitey. we were popular in Kent Ohio for a weekend. the girls threw 
their berets at us and the fly boys offered their Turkish cigarettes. it was 
the longest month of my life.

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Michael Baker
27 Bonn Place
Weehawken NJ 07066
201 736 0137
roky@optonline.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Widenhofer" <bwidenhofer@yahoo.com>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Wah Wah, Re: [bomp] You can even make your coffee taste like a 
sitar!


>
> I don't care for them either.  Probably because of all the kids who try to 
> use (overuse) a wah noise in place of an actual guitar solo.  A competent 
> player *might* squeeze something good out now & then, but I mostly see 
> them used as an ugly-sounding crutch.
>
>  If someone in your band shows up for practice with a wah wah, do what I 
> do: whenever they look away, kick it on and make an awful noise.  When 
> they turn and see you operating their new pedal, do not stop.  Make them 
> sound as bad as you can.  The rest of the band will be laughing, maybe the 
> deflated weah-owner will laugh too.
>
>  I have never been in a band where any wah wah lasted beyond one 
> rehearsal.
>
> Blair Buscareno <blairb@mac.com> wrote:
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> NankerPhlg@aol.com wrote:
>> A friend of mine just emailed that she heard a radio commercial for Wawa
>> markets' Kona coffee that was a takeoff on the Electric Prunes' famous 
>> Vox Wah
>> Wah commercial.
>
> I didn't think it was a takeoff on that at all. Really, it's just
> another in their Bad-Good-Best series.
>
> They just use a Wah-Wah pedal 'cuz it's the Wa-Wa market. But you do
> hear them play through a Wah-Wah pedal. (This is *not* going to get me
> interested, since I've never liked those things.)
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