The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124413   Message #2750502
Posted By: catspaw49
22-Oct-09 - 03:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Curmudgeon's Vocal Cord Cancer, Oct. 2009
Subject: RE: BS: Curmudgeon's Vocal Cord Cancer, Oct. 2009
That link is pretty exciting and I'm sure Tom will get the best this Doc can offer even though it might be a long road.

But if that's the case, you guys might be interested in some of the Vocal Cords at the NYCFTTS Spare Parts Repository I mentioned in the interim until Tom's are ready to go.

I went through the inventory and stock list but things are in a sad state and its a real mess. We do have the James Taylor ones I mentioned but I can't think a steady diet of "Fire and Rain" would be what Tom would like.

I found an old donation...a pair of cords belonging to the Velvet Fog, Mel Torme. Unfortunately, they were stored with the fog included which caused a lot of mold, rot, and other detioration on them and I think they're pretty useless now.   I don't think Tom would go for the Buffy Ste. Marie ones either as they also cause garbled words and an uncontrollable vibrato.

We DO have several sets of Dylan vocal cords and I see that Bob himself just picked up a new set to do his Christmas album. 'Course if you heard clips from his Christmas album you would know that these aren't worth a shit and might be some of the worst cords ever produced. Maybe they're just worn out but its hard to believe that anything could sound that bad even so.

Now here's something! The Official Frankie Valli model is still in stock!......Wait......bit of a problem. The only sets we have are the falsetto version. But Tom might like that for just a temporary thing............hmmmmm.......maybe not. I just read the instructions for them and see Tom would be required to have his balls in a C-Clamp all day so those are out too. Sorry.........

I'll keep looking.....This place is one helluva' mess though so don't hold your breath.


Spaw