Musician Replaces Bandmates With Robots

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Aug 9th 2007 at 11:59AM

Though you may not have ever heard of Jay Vance or his band Captured! By Robots, you definitely want to check them out on tour this fall just to see the spectacle. Day jobs, drugs and egos are a band's worst enemy, and Jay had enough. So, in 1997 he began constructing his army of back up bots.

The 'band' is constructed with scrap metal and controlled by Vance via a system of pulleys and pneumatic actuators. The robots curse like sailors and bang out metal and punk tunes as Vance screams out lyrics about working out, driving and the 10 Commandments. The tunes sound like everything from Metallica and Devo to Black Flag and Journey (as in the above video), but the real sell is the craftiness of Vance, AKA JBOT.

Check out the Wired article for some more video and visit the band's official website for downloadable MP3s.

From Wired

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a-dog @ Aug 9th 2007 12:51PM

Wouldn't this solve Axl Roses problems?

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bill @ Aug 9th 2007 1:17PM

Jay your wife called and she wants her bedroom toys back.

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Lone Wolf @ Aug 22nd 2007 5:18AM

Anyone heard of Doctor Steel?

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