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Post by windmill on Oct 1, 2022 22:12:13 GMT -5
A few week ago the boutique pedal bug bit.
I have a few pedals, mainly Boss, that I hardly use, and the boutique pedals had passed me by until now.
I have a Bass Big Muff pedal so thought about looking for other types of fuzz pedals and came across the Tonebenders and their variants.
This one caught my ear during the youtube search, not least because it is built locally.
Going back to my youth, on the radio I had heard a part of song that used as background on a feature about a popular band of the time but was not one of their tunes.
After a while I found out it was a version of Walk Don't Run by the English group The Pink Fairies. Over the years I couldn't find a copy of it in any record shops.
Later when the internet came along I was able to buy a Cd that had the song on it, on teh album "What a Bunch of Sweeties", and additionally found out their version had words,
including the classic couplet "I went up to her room, she hit me with her broom".
A couple of weeks ago the CD came to the top of the pile and I played it in the car a few times.
Last night when the Klinger pedal was plugged in for the first time, it was instantly the late 60's british rock, Yardbirds etc all the way.
I then wondered how it would sound on some surf tunes, so I started on the intro to Walk Don't Run
Instant Pink Fairies version !
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Post by funkykikuchiyo on Oct 2, 2022 9:33:36 GMT -5
Sounds cool!
Trying to figure out what that tone is, exactly. It is definitely British, but somehow between Vox and Marshall. I don't know my old British amps well enough. A google search shows them playing a variety of stuff. I'm seeing one that looks like a big Marshall stack, but it has giant gold plates with two words on it, and I can't read it. I don't recognize it.
Now, play the riff from "American Woman" at high volume over and over again!
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Post by Taildragger on Oct 2, 2022 15:21:14 GMT -5
One of my favorite fuzz tunes. Perhaps "lesser-known", but no-holds-barred, unapologetically fuzzed out with quirky lyrics:
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Post by Taildragger on Oct 2, 2022 19:04:39 GMT -5
More flagrant fuzz abuse from out of the past:
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Post by Mike the marksman on Oct 3, 2022 7:20:48 GMT -5
I'm seeing one that looks like a big Marshall stack, but it has giant gold plates with two words on it, and I can't read it. I don't recognize it. Simms-Watts, similar to Sound City amps. I think Mick Ronson and David Bowie used them at one point also, the Pink Fairies tone is very Spiders from mars-ish. |
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Post by Leftee on Oct 3, 2022 8:05:12 GMT -5
Simms-Watts
There’s a blast from the past. There doesn’t seem to be many survivors.
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Post by Lesterstrat on Oct 3, 2022 14:20:42 GMT -5
I have a EWS Fuzzy Drive that I LOVE whenever the fuzz vibe strikes me. Unfortunately, I don’t think they make it anymore. I have mine for many years. Hopefully, it holds up many more years.
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