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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: The secret history of the headgear microphone
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 04:23:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 04:23:43 1985
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> From: rosen@ucbvax.ARPA (Rob Rosen)

>      What exactly IS a "Kate Bush microphone?"  Is it like a headset?
>      Do you have to look like Kate Bush to wear one?  Somone clue me
>      in, please...

For KB's concert tour in 79 she wanted to dance, mime, and sing at the
same time.  She felt this would be very difficult while holding a
microphone, so she had a special headgear microphone system designed for
her.  Now these microphones are becoming the biggest rage since the
hula-hoop.

I wonder if she owns the patent on these things....

				-Doug Alan
				  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)


P.S.  Other silly bits of trivia: Tom Scholz, who's an MIT grad and in
the group Boston and makes mediocre music, invented the "Rock Man",
which is like a walkman which you plug your electric guitar into.  And
Godley and Creme have invented several gadgets which are now widely
used by musicians, but I can't remember what they are....