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[Ent]

This has been bugging me a little bit. I have done a lot of searches on the internet and still can't seem to definatively find the answer.

What instrument makes the sound similar to a rattlesnake?

I believe it's used at the beginning of Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion, in Wilson Pickett's Engine # 9, and in one of Cake's songs that I can't remember the name of (yeah, I know that helps a lot, huh?).

I think it might be this, but I'm not 100% sure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabasa

[brainstorm]

This has been bugging me a little bit. I have done a lot of searches on the internet and still can't seem to definatively find the answer.

What instrument makes the sound similar to a rattlesnake?

I believe it's used at the beginning of Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion, in Wilson Pickett's Engine # 9, and in one of Cake's songs that I can't remember the name of (yeah, I know that helps a lot, huh?).

I think it might be this, but I'm not 100% sure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabasa

the beginning of sweet emotion is all that vocoder/wah pedal sound - where's the rattlesnake?

[Hewletts Daughter]

you dont mean, like, a maraca, do you?

[Seamus]

I initially thought maracca [sic]. But the Aerosmith clue has got me leaning toward the vibraslap (also featured on "Crazy Train").

Vibraslap

[Seamus]

I'm leaving to go home now, but I want credit for the right answer.

[RadioHitchcock]

woven shaker?

[arkin]

yeah, vibraslap, Seamus beat me to it.

[Seamus]

Yyyes!

[Vivian Darkbloom]

You guys are forgetting the crucial vibraslap- opening of Ozzy's "Crazy Train" Duh duh.....duh..duh.....duh..duh...duhh AYE! AYE AYE Duh Duh #$%$&%**&^*&^&%^#$&)*)(&% (transcription of rattling vibraslap)

[Ent]

I initially thought maracca [sic]. But the Aerosmith clue has got me leaning toward the vibraslap (also featured on "Crazy Train").

Vibraslap

Yes, I think that's it. I don't know why I didn't remember the beginning of Crazy Train has it also. Thanks. I do believe Seamus got it right first.

Listen here. It's the sound 5 seconds into this clip and then again at approx 13 and 19 seconds.

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[Ent]

Its in this song about 16 seconds in and then a few more times in places. Wilson Pickett - Get Me Back On Time, Engine No.9 <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.c...></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.c...7kKDzreM&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

[mouthbreather]

Almost as cool as a cowbell... almost

[Seamus]

You guys are forgetting the crucial vibraslap- opening of Ozzy's "Crazy Train"

Check it again, check-check-check it again. I was all over the "Crazy Train" vibraslap in my first post. That extended time off is getting to you.

I would like to thank whatever powers that be which have acquiesced so that we may have a thread devoted to the vibraslap...thank you!

[nobodies]

If you want to go real old school...go jawbone of an ass, which was sort of the precursor to the virbraslap.

[Seamus]

I could totally see that. They (LP?) were trying to recreate that sound--mass produce it--that jawbone of an ass sound. Man, I'm having a little percussion ensemble freak out over here.

[Simakos]

i hate this instrument.

[Seamus]

Well, at least let us (well, okay, me) revel in it for a couple hours here. Jeez!

[Simakos]

it's a stupid instrument. total gimmick bull-dick.

[Ent]

Almost as cool as a cowbell...
almost

More Vibraslap!

[Simakos]

i hate it. i hate it.

and it doesn't sound like a fucking rattlesnake.

Cruisin' on my belly all night long, you gotta hold on
You gotta hold on, you got a rattlesnake I'm a rattlesnake
- Paul Westerberg