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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The secret history of the headgear microphone
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 16:21:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 16:21:52 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

Hate to burst your bubble of Kate Bush as the next Edison, but if I
recall NASA, TV crews, Football Coaches and others have used headset
microphones since Kate was in diapers. 

...besides, I heard that Mr. Gabriel used a wireless headset mike
on his PG2 tour, which you must know predates 1979.

-todd jones

P.S. KB's new album is a total washout compared to her previous work.