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Re: BIEKE
By: bieke Date: September 25, 2017, 3:38 am
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Re: BIEKE
By: bieke Date: September 25, 2017, 3:40 am
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This photo is from the "With The Beatles" sessions in 1963.
Lennon's still using an AC30 and his first Ric 325, and he's
wearing winklepickers.
George Harrison visited his sister, Louise, who lived in Benton,
Illinois, in early September, 1963, bringing from the US a
Rickenbacker 425 (and probably the Maestro FZ-1 seen on the 11th
September, 1963 session, when the first version of "Don't Bother
Me" was practiced.
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Re: BIEKE
By: bieke Date: September 25, 2017, 3:42 am
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Another fuzz pedal the Beatles have used was an WEM Pep Rush,
reportedly used on the Paperback Writer recordings. The
photograph below, taken around that same era, shows Lennon
fiddling with the Pep Rush fuzz pedal.This photo was taken on
13th April, 1966, when on the first attempt to recording
"Paperback Writer", Lennon used a Gretsch 6120 Nashville
guitar plugged into a WEM Rush Rep. fuzz. Abbey Road Studio
Three.
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Re: BIEKE
By: bieke Date: September 25, 2017, 3:45 am
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the Beatles used at least 10 different fuzz sounds during their
time
1. Starting with a Maestro FZ-1 in 1963,
2. a Tone Bender Mk.1 for Rubber Soul.
By 1966 they were using 3 types of fuzzes:
3. Lennon used a WEM Rush PEP fuzz pedal for "Paperback Writer"
rehearsals, in April 1966.
4. McCartney is spotted using a Sola Sound Tone Bender Mk.1.5
(some say it's a Mk. 2) with his Casino into a Bassman amp in a
picture shown in the first page of Mark Lewisohn's "The Complete
Beatles Recording Sessions". That picture was taken at Abbey
Road studio 3, where most of Revolver sessions took place. It is
from early 1966, so it could be the early edition of Sola Sound
Tone Bender Mk.2
5. George used the built-in fuzz of his Vox 7120 amp.
6. In 1967 they used Vox 730 amps with built-in fuzz and
7. a Selmer Zodiak amp with built-in fuzz.
8. In February 1968, for "Hey Bulldog"/"Lady Madonna" sessions a
Vox Conqueror amp with built-in fuzz was used.
9. By mid 1968 the overloading REDD desk fuzz technique was used
for Revolution.
10. In 1969 George used a silicon Arbiter Fuzz Face.
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Re: BIEKE
By: Bucky Date: September 25, 2017, 6:20 am
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I’m speechless. Every time I think I heard everything about the
Beatles, someone comes along and destroys that illusion.
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Re: BIEKE
By: bieke Date: September 25, 2017, 9:26 am
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oh well, the Beatles gear related stories are often inaccurate,
but the list of 10 fuzz sounds used by the Beatles is fact
checked and pretty accurate imo
it is a lot harder to actually tell which fuzzsound was used on
which recording ...
one more thing I've been wanting to know is who actually made
the first fuzzbox
I think it may have been a radio technician from Phoenix named
Revis Hobbs. He made a fuzzbox for Lee Hazlewood and it can be
heard on Go On Home by Sanford Clark with Al Casey on guitar
(and fuzzbox), song was released in March 1960.
A couple of months later, in the summer of 1960, while Glen
Snoddy is recording Marty Robbin's hit Don't Worry in Nashville,
Tennessee USA, an accident causes a Langevin tube amp module in
the mixing console to blow a transformer, making Grady Martin's
6 string DanElectro bass guitar have a fuzzy, distorted tone.
The decision is made to keep this unique "fuzz" bass solo as
part of the final song. The record was a huge hit, and when
Nancy Sinatra booked into the studio shortly after, she
requested the same sound. Meanwhile, the blown transformer’ had
failed completely, so Glenn Snoddy teamed up with Revis Hobbs to
recreate the effect using transistors.
Snoddy invited Hobbs to come by the studio and bring some
special transistors, and together they worked out the details of
their fuzzbox. No photos remain of this fuzzbox.
Snoddy and Hobbs’ circuit worked by clipping the signal’s sine
wave to a square wave. They added an on/off switch to the top of
the pedal so musicians could change the tone from clean to
dirty. Snoddy then pitched the fuzzbox idea to Gibson, and
Gibson developed the effect into a prototype, and later on
launched the first mass produced fuzzbox pedal.
Another pioneer is electronics technician Orville 'Red' Rhodes
who created a fuzzbox housed in a small metal casing with a
distortion level knob and bypass switch. No production version
of the pedal was ever made, although he made several of these
Rhodes fuzz boxes for fellow musicians. Some sources state the
Rhodes fuzz was actually made in 1962, and that Red was inspired
to make it after hearing Marty Robbin's hit Don't Worry.
However, Billy Strange used it on a recording in 1961 and Nokie
Edwards of the Ventures stated he was also using it 1961. Other
reports say Rhodes actually made the first one in 1960.
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Re: BIEKE
By: Bucky Date: September 25, 2017, 12:12 pm
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Willie Nelson’s bus driver told me about Grady Martin when I was
in high school. He challenged any guitar player waiting outside
the bus to play “El Paso,” and the prize was opening the show.
Of course, I didn’t know how to play that song because I would
never think to learn it. I brought up Glen Campbell, and he
dismissed Glen and said Grady was better.
My favorite fuzz tone comes from Robert Fripp’s violin like tone
he had in the seventies. That’s the sound I’ve ripped off for
most of my recording career. It’s a fairly easy tone to achieve
because all you need is a Big Muff style and a Marshall.
Ironically, he used a Hiwatt, but actually used a Fender Champ
with Eno and a Marshall with David Bowie.
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Re: BIEKE
By: AJ Date: September 25, 2017, 5:06 pm
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this is a great thread...You guys are veritable fountains of
info.
While I have your attention Bieke...Would you consider mixing
this thing me and Bucky are working on? "Possible collab"
thread....???
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Re: BIEKE
By: Bucky Date: September 25, 2017, 5:28 pm
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DEW IT
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Re: BIEKE
By: bieke Date: September 26, 2017, 9:49 am
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I'm tied up in mixing/final production of one of my own projects
and have deadline beginning October to write/record/mix/produce
a musical piece that is going to be used for some art/science
project involving 25 musicians and artists, I want to give it my
best shot, but haven't done a thing so far. It basically is
making a fitting piece of music to a certain artwork and then
there is a scientific study done to unravel the link between of
graphics and music, or so, I've actually did not even read the
assignment, but I got a huge painting at home that I should be
staring at and then make a piece of music under the influence of
that artwork. Thing is still in the garage for a month already
and I really should unwrap it and have a look ...
I listened to the collab in an earlier stage, I'll give it
another listen
might be willing to do it
as long as I get full artistic freedom
>:D
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