The popular 80's rocker Peter Frampton makes his way to The Woodlands this weekend (Saturday, September 21, 2019) in what his people are saying is his Farewell Tour. The 69-year-old singer may be retiring due to illness, but he’s not going out quietly reported the Tampa Bay Times.com.
Frampton this spring announced he’d been diagnosed with a rare degenerative muscular condition known as inclusion body myositis, which is slowly eroding his ability to play guitar. That, of course, is a major part of what makes Frampton, Frampton; his signature talk box technique is a big reason Frampton Comes Alive! is one of rock’s iconic live albums.
A talk box is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same 
way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument. Typically, a talk box directs sound from the instrument into the musician's mouth by means of a plastic tube adjacent to their vocal microphone. The musician controls the modification of the instrument's sound by changing the shape of the mouth, "vocalizing" the instrument's output into a microphone.