that trick where the vocalist sustains a note and it morphs into an instrument

and lasts for a long time. are there a few of these?

like 2:10 here kinda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBOaLjtR4mw

Around 4:20 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGAS5FWX9iY

Pink Floyd - "The Gunner's Dream" (at 2:11) - Voice into sax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIJN6WWf3Rg

And Pink Floyd - "Sheep" of course - Voice into guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoCGygFAIGo

At about 3.30 into this there is an amazing moment when Annie's high note turns into some beautiful strings.

pretty sure there's a thread in the archives on this.

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Hmm think there's a song on J Buckley's Grace that does this.

I heard this the other day and I feel like it was on a Pavement record but I totally forget

I'm going to do this with a vuvuzela

kazoo to vuvuzela would be some next level stuff

kazuzela?
Yazuzela - a Yazoo tribute band who only play vuvuzelas?

Dexys Midnight Runners - All In All, "or just tell me anything goooooooood" into fiddle solo.

around the 3 min mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6JTjhWUUyI

there's a song on the new janelle monáe album that does this too

Tanya Donelly on Throwing Muses' "Not Too Soon".

Don't think the two Portishead examples morph voice into an intrument - the first sustains the note either by sampling/looping (a la Fatboy Slim's Praise You) or just over-dubbing or even very long breath, in the second she just continues screeching surely?

There's a really awful (but aren't they all?) Audioslave track where one of Chris Cornell's screams does this thing.

wow nobody's mentioned the high note in "More Than A Feeling"? that's like THE classic example imo.

prince - 'do it all night' on the keyboard solo

also 'sweet child o' mine', right?

sampling/looping - i consider the sampler an instrument, esp. when it seems to me something changes in taking a small sample of voice and extending it, it changes in quality maybe deliberately for this surprise unearthly effect or maybe bc the brain tells us a human can't hold a note like that. anyway i think this counts that basically how i break it down to an extent.

was kind of surprised the examples here are so "real" instrument bc synthesizers & samplers would be the first things i'd think of if i was going to try this. but it makes sense for musicians to go for horns as analogs of vox, reminds me of early jazz players answering the sung phrase of blues singers.

no idea what's going on in stevie d's!

~56 s.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-zSxWRSVI

sounds like the voice is sustained naturally but backed up with fuzz? would be a looong sustain but i can't hear his voice drop out & it's def there right before the next line. v. cool tho in any case imo.

The biggest chart hit of the bunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsnMFfMmV8I&feature=related

I'm pretty sure Sade has done this.

This happens at the end of the Who's "Bell Boy," voice morphing into guitar feedback. What's amazing about it isn't just that the transition is seamless/undetectable, but that the voice belongs to the notoriously tone-deaf Keith Moon.

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More Than A Feeling!

Boredoms - second song on Super AE!!

Also Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger with its still-jawdropping voice/guitar solo.

cannot hear this in the pretenders alfred posted, perhaps bc i zoned out twice while trying to listen for it. if it's the harmonica bit at the end it's a bit tenuous tbrr

Go to 3:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC2vqPHUw7s

talking heads - facts of life

~46s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDwDgktkynA&feature=related

Has no one mentioned "Sheep" by Pink Floyd?

I have the knack Radiohead do this every once in a while... at least pretty sure it happens on 'How to dissapear completely' Thom's voice morphing into the string arrangement towards the end...

There's a late-period Cure song that does this too but I can't remember which one it is.

The first time I remember hearing this was during "In the Lap of the Gods" on Queen's 'Sheer Heart Attack' LP, Freddie's voice merging into Brian's guitar feedback. Pretty cool stuff.

i finally thought of one: "sheep" by pink floyd

Sheep Trick