In San Francisco, California, there is a band made up almost entirely of robots.

They're called captured by robots,

there's an exclamation point after the captured.

And their one human member, J-bot,

claims that he was captured by the robots,

though in truth he made the robots that play with him on stage.

I think a band made a robot sounds pretty cool but that's just me.

Let's ask the horns what they think. The And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad

that you've joined me to talk about music made by robots and music made by humans

and music made by robots and humans working together. We've got a really strong

song to get into on this episode that actually features some interesting robot backstory.

So find your favorite listening spot, turn up the volume, and enjoy the show. A couple of notes before we get started. First of all, the Strong Songs

Theme Song continues to evolve. I hope you like its latest incarnation

though it will probably change a little bit more. One of the nice things

about having a podcast that you put out every other week is that if you make the music for it you can kind of tweak it a little

bit each time. It is much closer to his final form now though I brought in a friend of

my named B.J. Cord who is a wonderful trumpet player and he laid down trumpet

parts for this for the recording and that adds a whole lot to it. I was actually

using sampled trumpets. I know I know I was actually using sampled trumpets. I know, I know. But I was using

sampled trumpets on the version that you heard on the Elton John episode that preceded this one. So it is very, very nice to have

real trumpet in there. And that does mean that all of the instruments

that you're hearing aside from the roads and the organ are not sampled and

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