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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The secret history of the headgear microphone
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 14:07:43 EDT
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> From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)

> 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.

Not to mention telephone operators.  But none of these are high
fidelity.

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

I'm not sure when the PG2 tour was, but KB's tour was for her first and
second albums, which were released in the same years as PG's first and
second albums.  In any case, Peter Gabriel got it from Kate Bush.  Would
you like me to send you a copy of the BBC documentary to prove it?

(Peter Gabriel guest starred at one of Kate Bush's concerts and probably
thought the microphone was spiffy....)

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

Foo!  It's her second best album!  Not quite as good as "The Dreaming",
but much better than any of her other albums.  I bet you didn't even
listen to "The Ninth Wave"....

> From: bryan@psivax.UUCP (Bryan Marr)

> The "Kate Bush Microphone" is a Shure Bros. model SM-10, used in
> conjunction with a Nady model 501 true diversity transmitter/receiver
> system. KB does not own the rights to either one of these devises.

Of course radio microphones already existed long before.  The difficulty
was in getting the headgear to work right.  The microphone had to stay
in just the right place even during active moving, dancing, being thrown
around by two big guys, etc.  And nothing appropriate existed at the
time KB decided she needed one.  See aforementioned BBC TV documentary
on the making of Kate Bush's 1979 concert tour for more details.

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			 Doug Alan
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