The Rock-afire Explosion - Tune Machine (March 1988)

Showtape Title: SPP Tune Machine
Release Date: March 4, 1988

The Tune Machine is the Rock-afire Explosion's first show released in 1988. This show has a storyline, centering around Fatz's magical keyboard, now known as the Tune Machine, which could play any sound in the world. In segment 1, the Tune Machine is accidentally broken after Fatz plays every sound in the world backwards, causing the keyboard to be stuck on a "cheesy organ sound". This plot is resolved in segment 2, when Looney Bird fixes the Tune Machine by removing the antenna that is plugged into his barrel. Though this is not the first time Fatz's keyboard is portrayed as magic, this is the first time it is referred to as the Tune Machine, which is what it would be called until the end of the Rock-afire's time at ShowBiz. Interestingly, the name Tune Machine was not something that was thought up by Creative Engineering or even ShowBiz Pizza Time. The Tune Machine name first appeared in a 1983 Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre showtape, where it was an invention of Madame Oink that could take the Pizza Time Players anywhere in the world of music. Funnily enough, a Chuck E. Cheese's showtape would be released about a month later that also featured a device called the Tune Machine. Additionally, this was the very first Rock-afire showtape released on on S-VHS for the new CyberStar format, which incorporated video into RAE and CEC shows using TV monitors installed above the stage. This show was also one of the few RAE shows released on "CyberVision", which was an early version of CyberStar. The CyberVision version is nearly identical to the CyberStar version, the only difference is that it was just footage of the animatronic characters preforming the show, without the animated affects or footage of walkaround characters spliced in. Finally, it should be noted that the Tune Machine segments would later be reused in several of the Rock-afire "Best Of" compilations in the early 90's. This show was the counterpart to CEC Tune Machine / Country.

Rolfe & Earl vocals - Aaron Fechter
Fatz Geronimo vocals - Burt Wilson
Dook LaRue vocals - Duke Chauppetta
Beach Bear vocals - Rick Bailey
Mitzi Mozzarella - Shalisa James
Billy Bob Brockali vocals - Aaron Fechter
Looney Bird vocals - Aaron Fechter

Show Segments:
00:00 - Segment 1 - Tune Machine 1
08:30 - Segment 2 - Tune Machine 2

Audio Source: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4cql86zluz...

If you want to view the cyberstar version of the show, while a full copy has not been uploaded, both segments have uploaded to Youtube by Pizzacam. Link to his channel:
   / pizzacam3  

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