pork butt?

Wireless mic at your mouth? (the battery pack was only thing based on the visual image I developed I could really come up with that was vaguely music related)

The bad date I picked up at the bar last night?

A portable speaker, usually plugged into a guitar, but sometimes used with a microphone.

you mean a foldback speaker?

Nope, not a stage monitor.

After I guessed (incorrectly, as it happens), I checked. Pignose is the brand name, and it runs off AA batteries.

some kind of 'wah-wah' pedal?

Els asked the question, he's the one to confirm that Crimson Ghost is right ... I could have found the wrong device, after all.

CG is close enough for rock and/or roll. Pignose is the brand name of a very small combo amp for imprompteu performance sans electrical connection.

CG, you're up.

OK.

Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester) married Betty Grable.
In 1940 she divorced him.
In 1943 she married a jazz trumpeter and big band leader.
Who was that band leader?

Glenn Miller?

Louis Armstrong?

Harry Owen?

Glenn Miller played trombone.

Guess it's not him then. :blush:

I don't know my big band leaders that well. I can't imagine Betty Grable getting married to a black man. It would have been scandalous in those days. So that rules out a few right there.