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Captured! By Robots - A Musical/Mechanical Marvel?
Duke Boo Boo of Ouch writes: "Last night, I ventured out to the local tavern to catch musical acts Mini Band, and more importantly Captured! By Robots. This act is comprised of one human and seven fully functioning musical robots, which play guitar, bass, horns, drums, and percussion. To ensure the full effect, this must be witnessed live, but there are some videos to spark your curiousity." If you've seen one of these shows, please share your thoughts on the experience.
I've seen all his shows that come through chicago for the last few years except for the recent holloween show- forgot about it.
very cool, the robots are awesome and certain parts of it will definitely remind you of practicing profanities when you were 5....
my favorite song is call 'I wish I had a pussy I could crawl into': it's about finding 50 ft woman with a six foot pussy he could go into and not have to shower or eat or work or dishes and just live in the pussy...
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In the future will we have robot celebrities and rock stars? With the ladies chasing them for sex? If so it's time to invest in these sex machines you when searching for porn on a peer to peer network and on other places on the web.
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I know you've been modded (unfairly) as flamebait, but it's still amazing, especially if it's been going on for a decade or more. (Plus it sounds as good as some of the hardcore stuff that people accept as music.)
I don't think it's musical, and I don't think it's good, but AT LEAST it demonstrates that a lot of human music is mechanical and rote enough that machines can be programmed to do it with live instruments (rather than by synthesizer/digitizer).
From a less cynical perspective, it's great to see a) that robots can be made to do such impressive things with instruments and b) that human hands are still sooooo much more complex and beautiful that the same sounds can be produced by human hands without a godawful collection of pumps and levers hovering tenuously over the strings.
I wish I had a robotic woman to blow my horn. I guess I couldn't take her into the shower though :-(
Your wish has come true
USB.
Sensor enabled.
Motorized and articulated.
Disturbing.
Isn't it.
To my mind, it's a better read than listen. The robots are definitely cool, much better than Chuck E. Cheese - the instruments are actually being played by the robots, after all. Maybe you won't be blown away by their quality, you wouldn't see it in a sci-fi movie or Rocky III, but the man definitely has put a lot of time into it.
The stage show isn't the greatest - the songs are pretty generic rockers. Also, given the difficult task of controlling robots while running a 1-man band, it's not surprising that the between-song banter about how the robots have enslaved him and insult him ends up not being as clever as one might wish: a whole bunch of "fuck yous" are thrown around.
So I can't consider him a top example of SF wackiness - he had Extreme Elvis open for him once, and Elvis had him beat, without much of a contest.
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I saw them at our local musical Mecca, Ralph's Corner about a year ago. He's a great entertainer. The robots have pre-programmed phrases to say through the show, but he can also switch his mic to talk through the robots to heckle the crowd.
The basic plot of the show is that the human built some robots to be his friends and play with him, but the robots rebelled and took him prisoner, and rip his guts out for fun. The take the human around the nation on tour so they can ridicule him in front of other humans to show their superiority. There is also two stuffed monkeys involved... The-ape-that-hath-no-name, and another one who's name escapes me.
Great show. If you go, check out the merchandise table, they have hilarious stuff for sale, including Captured By Robots cock rings.