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Electric kazoo, bitches!

Just in time for Christmas, the electric kazoo!

Yes, it’s real! And yes, it’s every bit as stupid and pointless as you think. (Also, yes, that’s a little teeny, tiny 9 volt Fender amp back there).

What? Look, I’m a banjo player. You were expecting taste?

Comments


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 1, 2011, 9:21 pm


Comment from Redd
Time: December 1, 2011, 9:58 pm

I want one!


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: December 1, 2011, 10:42 pm

It looks like something that would give Wierd Al Yankovick a hard-on…….


Comment from Mitchell TAFKAEY
Time: December 1, 2011, 11:34 pm

And now I have the image of Weird Al with a hard-on. Oh God. Now he’s singing “Eat It”.

Mind bleach!
MIND BLEACH!!


Comment from MIke C.
Time: December 1, 2011, 11:54 pm

Can the electric jaw harp be far behind?

EDIT – Electric washboard? Electric washtub base?

EDIT II – Electric saw??? No, not a Skill saw, I mean an elctrified normal crosscut saw.


Comment from JeffS
Time: December 2, 2011, 4:07 am

Heh! I posted the electric kazoo link on my Facebook account, with the message that I’m considering buying them for my grand nieces and nephews as a Christmas gift.

The immediate response from one mother:

“OH I WOULD KICK YOUR BUTT!!!!!!”

And that’s a direct cut&paste! Heh heh heh heh!!!

Thanks, Stoatie! ๐Ÿ™‚


Comment from enter exiting sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 4:46 am

One better. . . electrified mariachi band with electrified bagpipes. . . doing “Stairway to Heaven” with a Tejano uptempo beat. . .Yes, its El Vez. And he does Elvis. . .in Spanish.
Horrifying.


Comment from Ric Locke
Time: December 2, 2011, 6:53 am

Electrifying a mariachi would be particularly pointless unless the intent was WMD.

. . . . .

I’ll get right on it.

Regards,
Ric


Comment from MIke C.
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:13 am

Uncle B., get her a bodhrain for Christmas.

She can get you some high-quality shooting ear protectors…


Comment from exit sandman, formerly enter sandman, waffling sandman…
Time: December 2, 2011, 2:09 pm

Electrified occarina…with a wah wah bar and a sound box for distortion. Now that’s a deadly thing.


Comment from Mrs. Peel
Time: December 2, 2011, 2:18 pm

Jeff, I almost bought my nephew a real miniature drum set a couple years ago, but I figured my sister would get her revenge, so I didn’t. Now I have a noisemaker of my own, so I’m glad I didn’t, haha.


Comment from exit sandman, formerly enter sandman, waffling sandman…
Time: December 2, 2011, 2:18 pm

I mean if you can’t get WMD out of a mariachi band, where can you get it?


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: December 2, 2011, 5:52 pm

I’ve been threatening drumsets for my sister’s little boys but after “Santa” “lost” the beautiful razor-sharp pocket knives I bought them, I’ve decided that I need something easier to slip under the radar.

Hmmmm two young brothers+one electric kazoo…. but do I actually need to spend the dough?

I might be able to use that threat as blackmail material to encourage “Santa” to bring me a really good bottle of Scotch this year.

Two notes:

This strategy works great for North Korea.

Uncle Badger – sometimes it IS better to give the blackmailers what they demand. Just sayin’


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 7:30 pm

I think this thread might lead to drinking…if you’re lucky.

And…wait for it…NO OCEANIA. Who does deserve an electric kazoo ensemble in its (?) family this holiday season.

Just saying…


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 7:33 pm

and how, pray tell, does one get to produce that weasel icon in their post? Sneaky minds want to know…


Comment from Oldcat
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:03 pm

๐Ÿ˜€

I think its just a normal smiley


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:04 pm

I customized four or five of the regular smilies. Lessee…

๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ˜†

…I remember those three…


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:06 pm

That’s smile, frown and lol. Oh, and winky:

๐Ÿ˜‰

Also, of course

๐Ÿ˜ฎ and ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


Comment from mojo
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:06 pm

Hey, that’d go great with my electric spoons…


Comment from Veeshir
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:07 pm

The end is nigh, repent your sins.


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:51 pm

๐Ÿ˜€ hmmm, not so much.


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:53 pm

“:D”


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:54 pm

this weasel mug thing seems to not operate on this accursed lap top.

;D


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:55 pm

smileys not smiling here at the moment. mustelids or not.’:D’


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:56 pm

okay. I have officially achieved interwebz spaz status. Can’t get the weasel head thingie to work.

“shocker”


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 8:58 pm

๐Ÿ˜‰


Comment from exiting enter sandman
Time: December 2, 2011, 9:00 pm

Okay. Right clicked and looked at image info. There plain as day. I iz a idgit. Duh, I LIKE ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!

Pardon my full blown exploration of extreme stupidity. It will not happen again…today…
๐Ÿ™‚


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: December 2, 2011, 10:42 pm

Gawd, every time I look at that, I hear Weird Al doing “Another one rides the bus”……..


Comment from mojo
Time: December 2, 2011, 10:43 pm

“Now THAT’S a crocodile!…”
http://news.yahoo.com/giant-crocodile-captured-alive-philippines-134625838.html


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: December 2, 2011, 11:22 pm

Now men once fought the mastadon
Though it’s many millenia dead and gone
And there’s the monster crocodile
Ancient king of Egypt’s Nile
Then there are lions and jaguars
In various jungles near and far
But of all the things that scratch and bite
Of all the creatures in the night
The most dangerous -dangerous!- of them all
Is an angry woman just five feet tall…


Comment from me
Time: December 2, 2011, 11:42 pm

I think old Herman Cain is gonna find out the truth of that,
Some Vegetable… if he hasn’t already


Comment from Sven in Colorado
Time: December 4, 2011, 11:10 pm

SWease,

Do you know of, or have heard the underground jug band/tin pan alley group who recorded under the moniker of “R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders”? Banjo, Kazoo, Dobro, Saw and various other undone instruments.

– (You might recall R.Crumb’s art work from the Dark ages in ZAP Comics, Record albums including Big Brother and the Holding Company’s “Cheap Thrills http://www.crumbproducts.com/)

Then there is the strange album “Raising Sand” put out a couple of years ago. ‘Tis an uncertain marriage of the once undisputed British vocal sex machine from “Led Zeppelin — Robert Plant and the sultry songstress and fiddle player of Neuvo-Bluegrass — Allison Krauss.

It is amazing….grows onna person. Love this rendition of “Black Dog“. Don’t think there was a dry seat left in the house when they finished this concert……WHEW!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgzs6pT26KI


Comment from Sven in Colorado
Time: December 4, 2011, 11:42 pm

Following up on the post below:

Mayhaps, for my bretheren and sisteren across the pond…I should haves said:

“Don’t think there was a dry set of knickers left in the house when the concert was over.”


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 5, 2011, 12:18 am

I have every single R. Crumb album except the first one (because last I checked, they hadn’t released it as a DVD. Pity. Kiwi Bump was a favorite). I *adore* that stuff. He calls it “white man ragtime.”

Don’t sit through the R. Crumb documentary, though — it’ll skeeve you out.


Comment from Sven in Colorado
Time: December 5, 2011, 1:22 am

Swease,

Yessum, Crumb is a strange wanker. Reminds me of a very twisted, late 20th Century caricature of post-impressionist mad and flying Dutchman: Van Gogh.

I have a vinyl copy of the first album….I treat it like gold, need to get it copied onto digital.

Both brilliant artists, both twisted and, most probably, self medicating, borderline psychotics.

As for the Plant/Krauss body of work, it’s small and very colloquial. I find the blend intriguing, very sensual and sexy…in a delightful, sweet loving way. Its not sappy or cloying…like some overly sweet treacle.

Lyle’s Golden Syrup, if memory serves me…and it does:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_syrup

If that makes any sense!


Comment from Oh Hell
Time: December 5, 2011, 4:25 am

๐Ÿ™‚
I had to try it…


Comment from James P
Time: December 6, 2011, 11:09 am

Is that available in the UK? I’d like to buy one for my son(who lives 20 miles away!)


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: December 6, 2011, 12:35 pm

Yes, James. I bought that in a little music shop in Sussex.


Comment from James P
Time: December 7, 2011, 10:34 pm

Thank you SW. I don’t suppose they do mail order…

(It’s OK – I’ll do some Googling)

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