[bomp] fuzz favorites

[Brent Walker <bcwalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:17:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [bomp] essential fuzzzz
> 
> - --- Joe Emery <jemery@pstrategies.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> i know there were incidental uses of fuzz here and
>> there in the early 60s,
>> and for all i know hendrix was using a true fuzzbox
>> (as opposed to an amp w/
>> blown speaker) before him, but to me fuzz guitar
>> starts with davie allan.
>> mosrite fuzzrite pedal.  blue's theme, fuzz theme...
>> actually the whole
>> blue's theme and cycledelic sounds records.  if i
>> were doing 6 hours on fuzz
>> guitar, i'd give at least 2 of those hours to davie
>> allan.
>> 
>> and of course, the band to pick up on the idea and
>> run with it with
>> spectacular results was the ventures.  wild things
>> is an awesome rec.
> 
> Agreed 
> 
>> (their version of sweet pea kills, fuzzy & wild...
>> that whole record is
>> great.)  2,000 lb bee single is really great as well
>> -- i'm thinking that
>> was earlier than the wild things rec but i'm not
>> sure.
> 
> Some of the cuts on the "Batman" and "Walk Don't Run
> '64" album have 
> fuzz also
> 
 

Paul Burleson on the Burnette Trio's 1956 "Train Kept A Rollin/Honey Hush"
where he said he accidentally had a tube that was halfway out which gave him
that fuzz sound -- was  definitely an early example of a fuzz-like tone.

I believe the first actual fuzz box (as opposed to an amp or studio
alteration) was the Maestro Fuzz Tone from the early Sixties. That's the one
played by Tommy Tedesco on the "Green Acres" theme and Keith Richards on
"Satisfaction" (in fact, since this was recorded at RCA in Hollywood, maybe
Keith even used Tedesco's same box on it?--I'm just hypothesizing here.) I
don't know how "consumer available" it was to garage band kids at first.
Maestro was bought out by Gibson, and I think that's when it started
becoming readily available.

The Mosrite Fuzzrite (made for them by Ed Sanner, who later did his own
reissue version of it) was the one made famous by Nokie Edwards on Ventures
records and by Davie Allan. It's the one with the real "psych-fuzz" sound we
think of today.

I think the Vox Tone Bender is what Jeff Beck used in the Yardbirds (the
"Heart Full of Soul" sound). Hendrix's was the Arbiter Fuzzface, which is
when the fuzzbox tone started leaning more toward the "heavy rock" sound and
away from the classic "Bomplist-worthy" fuzz tone.

Brent Walker 

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