# See? Keytar can be kool!!! - Site: Analog Industries - Author: Chris Randall - Date: 2007-12-13 - URL: https://analogindustries.com/2007/12/see-keytar-can-be-kool/ Adam and I were talking about something or other, and our talk naturally turned to keytars, as it is prone to do, and I recalled that I had seen Oingo Boingo on the very tour filmed above, and the bass player played keytar in the only way it is possible to look cool doing so. A quick YouTube search later and here we go. Fuck, but this band was tight. ## Comments (10) **stevo83** (2007-12-13): you are joking arent you? he looks like a prick... its a keyboard not a guitar so whats the point. at least he doesnt point it at the audience like a machine gun, or fuck the thing, like some guitarists are prone to i guess. like the beret on the dude playing the keyboards properly though. **Chris Randall** (2007-12-13): Did I sound like I was joking? -CR **mike kiraly** (2007-12-13): No one dares to mock the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, so you can assume that CR was totally serious. **tngregory** (2007-12-13): off to spend the remains of the day listening to oingo. thanks for the reminder. **stevo83** (2007-12-13): i certainly hope you were.... who knows. Oingo Boingo sounds like a spanish porno or something... oops, did it again ;) i do wish more bands dressed like that now though... im sick of converse trainers and skinny jeans etc. bring back berets and vests with broaches i say! **Chris Randall** (2007-12-13): Not to be flippant, Steve, but is the "83" in your nom de plume the year you were born? If that's the case, you were roughly 5 or 6 when this tour occurred, so you can be forgiven. If you are, in fact, my age (39) then you got some 'splainin' to do. -CR **gregoreck** (2007-12-13): oingo boing rocked about as hard as it possible to rock. there is no room for irony when the band can deliver such a massive dose of irony and whoop ass simultaneously as to overwhelm any possible haters. gotta love the elfman soundtracks and all but the boingo was pure visceral nerd tinged beauty. **myrnaloy** (2007-12-13): If I affixed a number to the end of my name reflecting the year i was born, it would be a 65 so i am grateful for the Oingo Boingo reminder. A long, long time ago, I purchased a Prophet VS (when they were brand spanking new) and I had an issue early on (i don't remember what) so I called SC. The guy i talked to said to me "Danny Elfman is having the same issue so we are on it." I seem to recall nothing ever came of that. The dude playing the keytar looks to me like he also played a Chapman Stick at some point or another. He is holding it all crazy Chapman-y Stick-y style. **Tom** (2007-12-13): I'm not too familiar with Oingo, but based on my perusal of several of their videos on YouTube, Elfman was apparently the Official Spokesperson for "wifebeater" style shirts throughout the 1980's :) While we're all rockin' out to this particular genre, just wondering, any other big time XTC fans on here besides myself? **tremorcore** (2007-12-13): to correct stevo83, he *was* known to do the occasional "keytar machine gun" when the pile of flung brassieres (which invariably amassed in his section of the stage) attained a suitable height. snoop ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chzhfahAS5o ) doesn't hold a candle.