On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:59:28PM +0000, mike wilson wrote: > > > > > From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2006/02/09 Thu PM 02:20:45 GMT > > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > > Subject: Re: OT The GUI grows up > > > > Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Bob (former Theramin player) > > > > Now *there's* a title you don't see very often! > > > > Side note: If anyone remembers the late, great Bonzo Dog Band, they used > > to perform with an instrument they called the Electric Leg. It was a > > theramin built into the leg of an old department store mannequin. > > And a trouser press.
And a plastic funnel at the end of a hosepipe ... I saw the Bonzo Dog perform Urban Spaceman (and other songs of that era) in a small venue (basically a pub/club). The Electric Leg got into the name of a band (Roger Ruskin Spear and his Giant Electric Leg, if memory serves), and the trouser press was used as the name of a track (and was mentioned in the vocals). One thing I hadn't realised, until I heard the original a few years ago, was just how good a copy of the '20s/'30s songs they had managed on tracks like "Mr & Mrs Mickey Mouse".
