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From: chrisw@wwa.com (Chris Williams)
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 13:50 CDT
Subject: Re: The headset microphone
To: love-hounds@uunet.uu.net
About the headset mic: > In article <42dti8$cm6$1@mhafm.production.compuserve.com>, > 74557.664@CompuServe.COM (Richard Hamilton) writes: > > >So what was the name of Kate's soundman? I to convence my wife > >that it wasn't Garth Brooks that thought of that. I had to did out > >my Hammersmith Odeon tape and show here. Gee if it wasn't for > >Kate! > > I've missed all the recent discussions here due to my summer vac from uni., but > have stumbled on this post. > > If you're talking about the soundman who died on the run-through for the 1979 > tour, his name was BILL DUFFIELD. Kate remembers him in the song "Blow Away > (for Bill)" and also (I think) in "Moments of Pleasure" - I assume that he was > a bit of an all-round techie as she sings "Hey there Bill, would you turn the > lights up?" Actually, Bill Duffield was Kate's lighting guy. He fell from a lighting truss during rehersals. Kate's sound guy can be seen in the Nationwide _Kate Bush On Tour_. He is not identified by name, but he is a bearded guy with an accent that sound fairly Scottish (to my American ears.) He specifically mentions that it was built from a wire hanger. Kate discusses that she wanted "...something like a telephonist's headset.) It's fairly clear that she was not mearly the first to use one, but can be fairly called it's inventor.