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  Marsette Vona: Boogie Bass Hack: Details for Billy Bass
The Billy Bass Hack adds a 20 second re-recordable "special" message to the Billy Bass talking fish made by Gemmy Toys.
The 8252 also serves as the "brain" of the Bass when it's in special mode: it manages the switches which set the special sub-mode, it watches the front-panel pushbutton and the motion sensor for events, it triggers the head/tail/mouth motor driver circuits, and it controls the 1420.
The Bass is designed so that it can either be powered from four onboard C cells or from a wall-wart power transformer.
www.mit.edu /~vona/bass/bass-details-billy.html   (2579 words)

  
 Epinions.com - Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Electronic Big Mouth Billy Bass at Epinions.com
Big Mouth Billy Bass and I are currently in the middle of a love/hate relationship that will no doubt be profiled on the next Jerry Springer episode titled ‘Mothers and the annoying, singing wall fish who drive them crazy.’
Billy Bass is an electronically activated artificial bass which is mounted on a...
I first saw Billy Bass on the Rosie Show and I knew I had to have it for my log house in the woods.
www.epinions.com /reviews/Electronic_Big_Mouth_Billy_Bass/_redir_att__~1/display_~reviews   (914 words)

  
  Billy Bass Nelson at AllExperts
William "Billy Bass" Nelson (born 1951) is a U.S. musician, who was the original bassist for the P Funk band.
Billy was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and worked at George Clinton's barbershop, sweeping the floor and singing and dancing for the customers.
Billy Bass Nelson left the group in 1971 after a financial squabble with George Clinton.
en.allexperts.com /e/b/bi/billy_bass_nelson.htm   (304 words)

  
  Billy Bass Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William "Billy Bass" Nelson (born 1951) is a U.S. musician, who was the original bassist for the P Funk band.
Billy was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and worked at George Clinton's barbershop, sweeping the floor and singing and dancing for the customers.
Billy Bass Nelson left the group in 1971 after a financial squabble with George Clinton.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Bass_Nelson   (270 words)

  
 Billy Sheehan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Billy Sheehan (born March 19, 1953 in Buffalo, New York,) is a U.S. bass guitarist known for his work with Talas, Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, Mr.
Billy Sheehan's first instrument was an acoustic guitar that he borrowed incessantly from his sister.
He is a long time user of the Hipshot Bass D-tuner which allows him to drop the low E to a lower D on his bass' 4th string, all of his signature Yamaha basses have them factory installed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Sheehan   (1404 words)

  
 Big Mouth Billy Bass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Billy Bass can also refer to Billy Bass Nelson, a bassist who was part of P-Funk.
Big Mouth Billy Bass is an Animatronic singing toy, resembling a bass, popular in 2000 and 2001.
Made of rubber stretched over a mechanical frame (in order to more closely resemble a mounted trophy fish), Billy Bass, designed by Gemmy Industries, wiggles on its trophy plaque while singing kitschy songs, such as "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Bass   (158 words)

  
 Bassist Billy Peterson   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Billy's father, a jazz piano player, heard Monk Montgomery on electric bass in the mid-sixties and figured this was the future of the bass.
He purchased a Kay electric bass and left it in their home studio to see if any of his children would be interested in it.
Billy wrote a composition for this project called “Mid Air.” It turned out to be a haunting departure from the norm for Leo; however, the critics loved it and it was even considered as the theme song for a motion picture production.
www.billypeterson.com /bio.html   (1459 words)

  
 Art Davis and Billy Bang Duo
Billy Bang embellishes the melody with cleverly conceived scale runs, well times high note crescendos and double time stroking with his bow.
Billy Bang exhibits strong mastery of the violin as the melody sings and swings.
Billy further demonstrates incredible virtuoso control of melodic flow, pushing the musical envelop with crescendos and staccato double time note execution.
www.bboogie.com /Art_Davis_and_Billy_Bang_Duo.htm   (1064 words)

  
 Virtual Billy Show
Billy Elvis: Through music we can travel great distances, and we’d love to have ya’ll join us, as we take you on a trip to our homeland….we’d like to take all you people to the land that we were born and raised in….we’re taking about the mountains ….[bass solo]…..
Billy just said that he feels a love bound with this entire audience and he feels that on the wings of your love he can break his speed fiddlin’ record that hasn’t been broken in three years.
Billy Fiddle starts the crowd clapping, as Billy Elvis produces a bandana from his back pocket and holds it out to Billy Fiddle challenging him to a Greek dance.
www.jansworld.net /billy_hill/virtual_billy_show.htm   (2387 words)

  
 Billy Taylor - Discography
Billy's note: "This is a compilation of a things that were recorded as singles, not made as an album.
Billy's notes: "This is an early Latin recording, when Candido and I were working together at the DownBeat club on 54th Street with my trio, for over a year.
Billy's notes: "The cover picture is from the Town Hall concert, where I played an eleven foot Steinway and the the guys were pretty far away from me. That's when I introduced my composition, Theodora, for my wife.
www.billytaylorjazz.com /discography.php   (4041 words)

  
 Big Mouth Billy Bass   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Billy (bee-LEE) is the name or part of the name of several communes in France :
Figured bass is a kind of musical notation used to indicate chords in relation to a bass note
Miami bass is a form of music known for deep, throbbing beats, hyperkineticrhythms and, often, sexually explicit lyrics
www.daikaiju.com /edge/35382-bigmouthbillybass.html   (634 words)

  
 Billy Peterson   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1974 Billy met Leo Kottke, the great folk guitarist, and was the bassist on Kottke’s three albums for Capitol Records and Chrysalis: Ice Water, Dreams and All that Stuff, and Chewing Pine.
Billy was also the electric and upright bassist on Bob Dylan’s legendary multi-platinum recording Blood On The Tracks for Columbia Records.
Billy toured with the Steve Miller Band from 1987 to 2000 during the spring and summer months and played the bass on the Born to Be Blue (Capitol), Steve Miller Band Box Set (Capitol), and Wide River (Polydor) recordings.
www.thepetersonfamily.info /html/billy_peterson.html   (1578 words)

  
 CD Baby: BILLY BRUCE: One Lane Bridge - from sna
Billy Bruce is a veteran musician with more than 30 years in the band business.
Billy, a Florida native, is a mutli-versatile player, doing most of the tracks himself on drums, keyboards, guitars and bass.
Billy is from the 60s and 70s generation, music wise, and those influences burst at the seems on this album.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/billybruce/from/sna   (1129 words)

  
 Billy idol lyrics, Billy idol guitar tabs, Billy idol bass tabs, Billy idol pictures, Billy idol fonts, discography, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Billy idol browse lyrics and guitar tablature, read biography of Billy idol and find out how was written.
Band fonts section Billy idol is another category that deserves some attention, especially for those who are big fans of the band Billy idol and like to collect or create band logos and such.
Members will be able to submit and rate Billy idol tablature and lyrics, add pictures and other information about Billy idol such as reviews, comments, interesting facts in the history of the band Billy idol.
musiceffect.com /billy_idol/pictures   (986 words)

  
 Billy Taylor Jazz - CDs/Books
Billy Taylor conveys the history and development of America's classical music, jazz, through a unique perspective - that of practicing musician, jazz pianist and educator.
Billy's notes: "The cover picture is from the Town Hall concert, where I played an eleven foot Steinway and the the guys were pretty far away from me.
Billy's notes: "This was a really fun recording, where we got to play with the rhythm section from Machito's great Latin ensemble.
www.billytaylorjazz.com /cds_books.php   (4472 words)

  
 Billy Bass Seafood Calabash Seafood Restaurants   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Review: We went to Billy Bass because the line at our favorite Calabash seafood restaurant (Ella's) was too long for our party of 6.
Out favorite restaurant is Billy Bass, and we have tried them all.
Then I saw Billy Bass Seafood, and I had never been there before so I thought I would give it a try.
www.myrtlebeachscrestaurants.com /Billy-Bass-Seafood-Calabash.html   (688 words)

  
 Millions hooked on Billy Bass
And the world now has one, an anatomically correct mounted bass, called Big Mouth Billy Bass, that moves and sings “Take Me to the River” and “Don't Worry, Be Happy” — a goofy and deeply impractical gag gift that, at $19 to $24, is selling like mad.
Because Billy is the latest in a long line of products so dumb, so useless, so against-the-grain of today's high-efficiency economy, we just have to laugh.
Billy is a safe, sure-fire gift, said David Stewart, a marketing professor at the University of Southern California.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2000/08/10/loc_millions_hooked_on.html   (973 words)

  
 Marsette Vona: Boogie Bass Hack
For those of you who are new to all this, Boogie Bass is one of several "talking fish" toys that have cropped up over the last few months.
After removing the six screws that hold the back of the Bass' "plaque" (each cleverly hidden beneath a rubber mounting foot), I discovered that the inside of the plaque is mostly air.
A little investigation with an oscilloscope revealed that the control of the Bass' head/tail/mouth is extremely simple: energize the corresponding motor, and the head turns out, the tail extends, or the mouth opens.
www.mit.edu /~vona/bass/bass.html   (1243 words)

  
 G4 - Feature - How Big Mouth Billy Bass Works
One of the great inventions of the new millennium, Big Mouth Billy Bass is something that not just America, but humanity writ large, should take pride in.
If you haven't had the pleasure of encountering one at an uncle's house or near the checkout lanes at Wal-Mart, Big Mouth Billy Bass is a frighteningly realistic-looking largemouth bass mounted on a wall plate (kudos to renowned Portuguese master sculptor Marilda Ruiz).
When you walk past the bass, it starts flopping about while singing either "Take me to the River" or "Don't Worry Be Happy." Bobby McFerrin, you are still very much with us, my friend.
www.g4tv.com /techtvvault/features/18052/How_Big_Mouth_Billy_Bass_Works.html   (205 words)

  
 Billy Bass Hack
This hack is modeled after Marsette Vona's famous Embedded Billy Bass Hack.
You record the different body movements and voice by moving the 10 way switch mounted on the front of the bass and pressing the existing pushbutton.
If you don't know the history, "Billy Bass" is a cheap knockoff of "Boogie Bass" which was advertised on American TV pretty heavily.
www.ayershome.org /~eric/robots/billy   (606 words)

  
 About billy bass photography-cleveland ohio professional photographer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Highlights of Bass' career include his tenure as senior vice president of Chrysalis Records where he was the marketing strategist for superstar recording acts: Blondie, Pat Benatar, Billy Idol, Huey Lewis and the News, Jethro Tull, and The Babys.
Bass also managed Luther Vandross for Alive Enterprises and consulted the management team of Bon Jovi.
Bass is an active fund raiser for the Cleveland chapter of the American Red Cross and produces a yearly fund raising event called The Billy Bass Run To Help.
www.billybassphotography.com /about.htm   (134 words)

  
 "Billy Bass" is now the hackers' delight   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The latest target for hackers is none other than "Big Mouth Billy Bass," the animatronic singing-and-wriggling fish that enjoyed a nanosecond of popularity in the 1990s.
Now that Billy Bass has joined the gift stalls' remaindered shelves, where he can be purchased for a few dollars (euros), the nerds have moved in to use the gimmick for other things than singing the blues.
A website (http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/) gives instructions on how to gut Billy's tiny preprogrammed chip, which previously enabled him to sing just one or two songs, and replace it with a mighty open-source Linux microprocessor.
www.spacedaily.com /2003/031201141101.u0h3tklk.html   (196 words)

  
 Billy Bass
The Billy Bass had a happy snappy kind of look on its rubbery vinyl-like face that was irresistible.
When Gene returned home that night he set the Billy Bass up on the wall and listened to its stock phrases over and over till he had knew them all by heart.
The Billy Bass was there on the wall where he left it but a scowl had replaced the happy look that had been on its face.
www.aphelion-webzine.com /shorts/2001/04/BillyBass.htm   (1379 words)

  
 GaragePunk.com Forums :: View topic - BILLY BASS WOLF RIP???
Billy has passed away by heart attack in the morning of March 31st., at the age of 38.
Billy was my favorite out of the three, and I'm realy sorry to see him go.
I interviewed the guys a week ago and Billy was the most animated and funny of the three, despite the language barrier.
www.garagepunk.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=15955   (626 words)

  
 big mouth billy bass   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Like a great big concrete and steel version of the Big Mouth Billy Bass fish, with the ability to sway to the beat of ‘Take me to the River’.
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www.bass.today-search.info /big-mouth-billy-bass.htm   (385 words)

  
 Do-It-Yourself Hacked Billy Bass
If you want to created the Embedded Billy Bass, a Billy Bass with the control computer inside the frame, there are additional steps.
Although this worked for me, what you are undertaking may destroy your printer port, your Billy Bass or even your spare time.
To get the Bass to lip synch the file, I just made sure the WAV and lab file were in the same directory.
bigmouth.here-n-there.com /billy-howto.html   (710 words)

  
 Billy Bass Big Mouth - Make Over
Billy Bass Bones is a singing and talking fish prop that is designed to look like a real fish skeleton, attached to a wall plaque.
When the start button or light sensor is triggered, Billy Bones goes through a sequence of songs, talking and body movements.with the tail and head moving up away from the background board as Billy Bones sings and talk.
For this modification, the factory sound board and the motion control board will be removed,, so that a user programmable simple system can be installed, allowing the user to record any sound as songs, voice and control the tail and head body motion together.
www.bpesolutions.com /AAnimationinMotion/b.bass.html   (344 words)

  
 Big Mouth Billy Bass at AllExperts
Billy Bass can also refer to Billy Bass Nelson, a bassist who was part of P-Funk.
Big Mouth Billy Bass is an Animatronic singing toy, resembling a bass, popular in 2000 and 2001.
Made of rubber stretched over a mechanical frame (in order to more closely resemble a mounted trophy fish), Billy Bass, designed by Gemmy Industries, wiggles on its trophy plaque while singing kitschy songs, such as "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
en.allexperts.com /e/b/bi/big_mouth_billy_bass.htm   (187 words)

  
 Billy Talbot of Crazy Horse Interview
One of my friends handed me an "Rip it up" (Free Australian music scene paper) interview that was done with Billy Talbot just before the European tour.
What are we gonna talk about?" Billy then asked before adding - cheerfully enough I might say - that he didn't particularly care for being interviewed.
I was always under the impression that Crazy Horse were a 'bar band' Neil Young had discovered in San Francisco in the late '60's.
www.thrasherswheat.org /yoth/talbot0896.htm   (1036 words)

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