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That 1 Guy
Biography
As the one-man-band known as That 1 Guy, Mike Silverman plays an instrument of his own invention, which he calls ‘the magic pipe.' After growing frustrated with other instruments, he designed it over the course of a month spent haunting hardware stores, collecting odd lengths of pipe and tools with the manic fervor of Richard Dreyfuss's character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Despite never having designed or built an instrument before at the end of the process he had created something that was surprisingly tuneful, despite resembling a cross between a harp, a bass, a set of bathroom pipes, and drug paraphernalia. Two strings of differing pitches are attached to the pipes, one set firmly grounded and the other able to be maneuvered as it is played. Trigger points all over the piping play pre-recorded samples when struck. There's also an electric saw and a kick drum made from a cowboy boot is attached to the bottom. The effect is something like a washtub bass redesigned by Terry Gilliam and Tom Waits. Also, as the high point of his live show, smoke blows out of the top.



Silverman was originally a classically trained double bass player who had been a member of a California jazz band called The Fabulous Hedgehogs.
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