Ruth Underwood and Dweezil Zappa talk about Frank's fondness for Mallet Instruments.
This video is assembled from bits of the Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation DVD. Everybody buy it so I won't feel bad about posting it on youtube!
Buster Keaton attempts to serenade a senorita and discovers it's more trouble than it's worth. From the Columbia short "Pest from the West", 1939. It was produced by Jules White, the man behind the Three Stooges.
BTW, it would take me too long to explain why he's dressed like that so just go with it.
Dr. Presson demonstrates this futuristic device from the '70s.
EDIT: a lot of people have written in asking what exactly my vocoder setup is. Well that's your classic Roland SVC-350, and I'm using a Kurzweil K2600 with the basic jar-of-wasps analog brass sound as the driver. The vocal mic has no pre-processing whatsoever, I just plugged it directly into the vocoder.
Keaton was not always the great stone face, as seen here in the 1917 film "Coney Island" starring and directed by Buster's close friend Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
NOTE: Yes, I added the sound effects myself.
