Reply To: Coverville 500, Las Vegas 8/15/08
Doesn’t sound like it, no. Unless you’re thinking of something different from what I’m thinking of, that sounds like a plucked instrument — the theremin is played by waving your hands aroundd in the air. (Confession: I haven’t watched the LAM JoCo in a Bubble, so I can’t tell you what instrument that was.) Check out the eerie wailing in the background of the “I’ll probably be some kind of scientist” verse of The Future Soon, or, as Kristen points out in the aforelinked thread, the strange ascending noises in the bridge of Tom Cruise Crazy.
Speaking of crazy, searching YouTube for “theremin” pulls up this awesome cover. (Gnarls Barkley was another band that Jeff the light guy mentioned before the NYC show as having done an underplay in the Highline, I think. I seem to remember he also mentioned Dashboard Confessional.)