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Hi, I'm Aaron Bland on behalf of Expert Village and I'm here to demonstrate vibraslap. This
sound was used, it's used a lot be a group called, Cake. Jethro Tull used it. Rush used
it. REM has a song called Orange Crush. Arrowsmith has a song called Sweet Emotion with this
at the beginning. And what I think of is Ozzy Osbourne's track, Crazy Train. So you may
recognize this from several studio recordings that you've heard. This is what's producing
that sound. Now this instrument replaced and instrument called the jawbone, which was actually
a horse's jawbone, devoid of all the gums and flesh, so you were just left with the
bones and teeth intact. And when you hit the jawbone with your fist, it would cause all
of the teeth to rattle inside of that skull creating that rattlesnake type of sound. Now,
LP made this because it's a lot more durable and it's also kind of tunable more so than
the organic skull of a horse. So, there's your vibraslap and it's application in a nutshell.