On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:37:50 GMT, Hochee Chunaka
wrote:

+
+ The first "echo box" I remember hearing on the CB was in early 1977.
+A guy calling himself "Wicker Bill" in Englewood, California came
+booming in via skip to the East Coast. He was using an analog tape
+loop. It sounded ten times better than the cheap reverbs of today.
+ The second echo box I heard was when my 14 year old friend came on
+the air later in 1977 with tons of reverb type echo. I asked him what
+he was doing, and he said to come over and he would show me. When I
+arrived he had a tin metal trash can over top of his head, and he was
+holding his Realistic desk power mic up inside the trashcan with his
+head. It was hysterical to see. His entire head was enveloped by the
+trash can. I fell over laughing.
+
******

The first time I heard someone using a reverb or "echo box" was a guy
by the handle of Igor the Terrible from Fort Lonesome, Fl back around
1971.

He came on the air one Saturday night about midnight and boy did that
wake you up.

james