Posted on 02/07/2012 9:11:12 PM PST by bigbob
If you need me to explain why you should spend 1:26 watching a man wielding an iron guitar in a Faraday suit playing Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" on MIDI-compatible Tesla coils, you are in the wrong place, pal.
ArcAttack is performing a Tesla Coil version of Iron Man by Black Sabbath. The Guitar Player is using an iron guitar in a faraday cage
ArcAttack testing out the world's first lighting-proof MIDI guitar in their warehouse in Austin, Texas.
The MIDI signal from the guitar is routed through a fiber optic cable to control the Tesla coils.
Update: From the comments, ArcAttack clarifies, "The guitar isnt iron though, its actually made out of wood with shielding and a couple of micro-controllers hooked up to a switch bank (the fret board) and is all optically isolated. The giant fan in the back isn't for sucking ozone. It was 100 degrees that day and being in a metal suit can get pretty hot. And in reference to Manny's comment, our interview went as follows "THEM: What happens when something goes wrong? US: We have many safety controls to minimize any major problem. If something goes wrong we just turn it off. THEM: is lightning deadly? US: Lightning is very deadly, but our machines arnt nearly as dangerous as real lightning."
The stuff techno-geek dreams are made of!
If 5,000 screaming groupies throw their panties at once, won’t the thing short out?;)
Only if they are damp.
and for anyone within a hundred feet of this thing, they would be ;-)
Are they are going to play in the rain?
Love this!
The next big genre of heavy metal?
I will pay to see and hear it just because it sounds so cool.
I don’t care what. With a thread title like that, I had to see this. Awesome.
Best rock band ever.
Me too, love Sabotage from 1975.
Probably was a lot better in his head.
Could have been playing pop goes the weasel.
Shouldn’t they be playing Tesla on Tesla Coils?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg
Best rhythm section ever...and best rock band of all time.
Give it 3 minutes.
We took our 3 children to see them LIVE. It was awesome. They did a science presentation for the kids before the ‘concert’ and took lots of questions after. They had a robot playing drums.
Now why didn't I think of that?
I saw Black Sabbath in Tallahassee when they did their “Iron Man” tour in the early ‘70s . . . . . been a fan ever since.
Can’t play a lick on a guitar but I’d sure love to have one of those suits and a lightning generator. That looks like too much fun!!!
Electric heavy metal ping
I like that song, but the way it was played it sounded a whole lot more like DEVO than black sabbath!
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