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| THE SONOVOX STORY................... I GREW UP AT THE END OF THE ERA OF BIG POWER AM STATIONS MANY NIGHTS I WOUID TUNE IN ON A RCA VICTOR TABLE TOP AND LISTEN TO SUCH GIANTS AS "WGAR"CLEVELAND "KFJZ" FORT WORTH AND OF COURSE "WABC" NEW YORK BUT THE COOLEST THING ABOUT THESE STATIONS WAS THE JINGLES!! AND NO SELF RESPECTING RADIO JINGLE OF THIS ERA WOUID BE COMPLETE WITHOUT THE SOUND OF THE SONOVOX TWO DOORS DOWN FROM JOHNNY LIVED HIS GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER. HIS GRANDFATHER WAS A NASTY OLD BASTARD WHO WAS DYING OF THROAT CANCER I GOT ALONG PRETTY GOOD WITH HIM THOUGH AS LONG AS I WOUID SNEAK HIM IN A PACK OF PALL MALL REDS WHENEVER I CAME OVER HEY TERMINAL THROAT CANCER IS ONE THING BUT PALL MALLS ARE OUTSTANDING AND THEY ARE MILD!!!! IT WAS A RIOT WATCHING THE OLD GUY HIDING BEHIND THE SHED SMOKIN THEM PALL MALLS!!! HE HAD BEEN IN AND OUT OF THE HOSPTIAL FOR QUITE A WHILE AND THIS LAST TRIP THEY TOOK OUT HIS VOICE BOX FIRST THING I NOTICED IS THAT THEY GAVE HIM THIS LITTLE BOX THAT HE HELD TO HIS THROAT AND THIS BOX PICKED UP VIBRATIONS FROM WHAT WAS LEFT OF HIS VOCAL CORDS AND WHEN HE SPOKE, IT SOUNDED JUST LIKE A FUCKIN SONOVOX!!!! NOW REMEMBER,THIS IS WAY BEFORE THE INTERNET SO I HAD TO RELY ON THE LIBRARY FOR INFORMATION, I DID FIND OUT THAT THE SONOVOX WORKED OFF VIBRATION OFF OF JUST ABOUT ANYTHING AND IT WAS USED IN A WALT DISNEY MOVIE IN 1941 SO I HAD A FUCKIN BRAINSTORM THIS WAS LIKE APRIL OR MAY THE OLD GEEZER DIED LATER THAT SUMMER 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND 1981 DON BEHAI CALLS ME TO TELL ME THAT JOHNNY'S GRANDFATHER HAS PASSED AND THE FIRST THING IS SAID IS TO TELL JOHNNY TO GRAB THAT VOICE BOX THING! TURNS OUT,HE WASNT EVEN COLD YET AND JOHNNY HAD THIS THING ON THE AIR. WE FIRST TRIED TO DUB OVER SOME "WABC" AND "WDHA" JINGLES BUT IT DIDNT COME OUT RIGHT THEN WE TRIED DUBBING OVER MUSIC THAT WORKED PRETTY WELL JOHHNY AND ME DID ONE DUBBED OVER THE OPENING OF "2001 A SPACE ODDESSY" "DAH DAH DAH DITDAH.........YOU KNOW YOU'RE ALIVE WITH 88.5 FALCON RADIO" IT SURE A SHIT WASNT PAMS BUT FOR A COUPLE OF PUNKS BRAODCASTING OUT OF A CLOSET LIFE DIDNT GET ANY BETTER WE USED THIS THING ABOUT A HUNDRED DIFFERANT WAYS MY BROTHER TOM WAS ALWAYS A GUITAR PLAYER AND HE HAD THIS INLINE PHASE SHIFTER THING BY PEAVEY THAT WORKED GREAT WITH OUR MAKESHIFT SONOVOX WHAT THE POINT OF THIS STUPID FUCKIN STORY? NO POINT REALLY,JUST SOME KIDS WHO WERE IN TO PIRATE RADIO AND MADE DO WITH WHAT WE HAD IT WAS A FUN TIME,A TIME AND PLACE THAT DOESNT EXIST ANYMORE BUT REMEMBER IF YOU WOUID LIKE TO RECREATE THE SOUND OF THE SONOVOX, FUCK DOWNLOADING A VOCODER MAKE FREINDS WITH SOME OLD GEEZER WITH THROAT CANCER. |
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