Instrument on "Pyroman" also used on Privateering tracks - what is it ??

[peterromer]

Hi
If I am not mistaken a similar instrument is used on "Pyroman" (live) some years ago as now used on tracks like "Dont Forget Your Hat", "Hot Or What", "Got To have Something" and "I Used To Could".  Is that right ?

On the tour when Pyroman was played I did not manage in time to get the good MK seats, so I could not see the instrument that was used on Pyroman and apparantly blew up in Norway, after it was played in Denmark. The rest of the tour it was not used. The only thing I recall is that this instrument was bought by someone in the band for Pyroman and used until it blew up....

What is that instrument, and why did it blow up  back then ?

cheers peter

[Guitarman1972]

Peter could you mention a few seconds area where you can hear the instrument very clearly where you are referring too. Doesn't matter which song from the new album. Just as long as the intrument can clearly be heard.

[Love Expresso]

Hm.

I presume you might mix up here something? All tracks you listed have similar just the harmonica, on Privateering played by Kim Wilson. But it is mic'ed, so it sounds somewhat loud and "electric" so to say... Not sure if you mean this?
The only instrument that blew up during the 2001 tour was to my knowledge the pyroman bass. A bass that was bought by Glen Worf during the tour and that had its moment during the performance of that song by throwing it onto the floor at the end of the song. At the last stage of the tour, the bass didn't survive the last "throw" and was seriously damaged, so that they didn't play Pyroman anymore from that day on.

Do you think this helps?

LE

[Guitarman1972]

I am sure you aren't reffering to the mouth harp/ harmonica. Right?

[Guitarman1972]

Lol, i just noticed i lost my newbie status and became a Local Hero. 

[peterromer]

Hi, I must be mistaken then as those songs has the same. It has to be the "electrified" harmonica I recall on Pyroman, but then is has nothing to do with the bass that blew up.
Thanks fellow fans 

[El Macho]

Mike Henderson played harmonica on Pyroman that MK used to sing through, which gave him a "robot voice"

[peterromer]

Yeah, I has to be the harmonica sound I recall, and when thinking of the sound of it as LE says about the "electric" to be another instrument.

[border_reiver]

Don't like being the wiseguy but the harmonica itself isn't electrified. It's got the microphone plugged to an overdriven tube amp instead of being plugged directly to the mix which gives you a cleaner sound.

Little Walter (Muddy Water's harmonica player) usually get all the credit for being the first one to do this.

[dmg]

Might be the so-called "Pyro-bass" that Glenn used to drop on the floor at the end of the song as LE said.  It finally broke in Oslo and was auctioned on eBay.

[JF]

On Pyroman, there's also a synth line played by Guy, which a sound a bit similar as electrified harmonica, and when Mark says at the end "all together now", both sounds are mixed, and  are a little bit difficult to "separate"

[localhero1986]

Probably a green bullet (mic).