Guitarist: Peter Frampton

Effect used: Heil Talk Box

Frampton first saw a talk box used by ‘talking steel guitar’ player Peter Drake, while they both played on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. Stevie Wonder, Jeff Beck and Joe Walsh soon adopted one but the effect became Frampton’s signature after his then-girlfriend found one in a shop for $150.

“It was the best investment I ever made,” he says. Indeed, via his Framptone FX company, Peter now makes his own version.

Did you know?

Joe Walsh claims he was responsible for showing Peter Frampton how to use the talk box: “then he went and got rich with it and never even thanked me…”