Although I grew up surrounded by the big hair rock of Bon Jovi and the like, my first introduction to the Talk Box guitar effect was not Living on a Prayer but Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way over a ...

“How does he make that guitar talk?” listeners often wonder when they hear Peter Frampton noodle around. It’s not the drugs or drink you imbibed that’s making you think his guitar is vocalizing.

John R. Smith receives funding from the Australian Research Council. A fine musician complemented by a fine musical instrument can communicate a range of strong emotions. But even the best of these ...

Hacker [Dino Segovis] wrote in to share the latest hack from his HackAWeek series, and this time around he has constructed a talk box for his bass guitar. Providing you are old enough, you probably ...

The recent induction of Peter Frampton into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame gives voice to the innovation he helped pioneer, the talk box. In the late 1960s, at age 16, Frampton became a fixture in the ...

PLAINS TWP. — Peter Frampton is a difficult-to-categorize rock icon. He’s alternately been a boyish matinee idol, a soft-rock superstar, a guitar hero and a classic-rock songsmith. On Sunday night at ...