1960s Sounds of the Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1 FZ-1A Fuzz Tone
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:49 am
Ok, here's a dedicated thread to that little doorstop of love, the original wedge of destruction, the inimitable Maestro Fuzz Tone!!! (often imitated, sometimes really well, but never duplicated)
Thousands of groups used 'em. Totally different styles altogether.
From early Zappa productions at Studio Z in Cucamonga c.'63 to Satisfaction (I Can't Get No) by the Stones
to Beefheart's early bassfuzz '66-stomper to hundreds of garage punk unknowns...even Jacques Dutronc & beyond...
fasten your fuzzbelts!...
To start it all off, one of the filthiest, gnarliest fuzz tones ever laid to wax: "Speed" by Ron Wray Light Show (1967)
& a nice fuzz-bass thumper which was recorded a full year before Satisfaction.
(FZ wrote, produced and played guitar on both sides at Studio Z in Cucamonga (1963) He might've played the fuzz bass here too, as well as drums - the average listener might not know FZ was a drummer first.)
Mr. Clean - Jessie Lee (1963)
Thousands of groups used 'em. Totally different styles altogether.
From early Zappa productions at Studio Z in Cucamonga c.'63 to Satisfaction (I Can't Get No) by the Stones
to Beefheart's early bassfuzz '66-stomper to hundreds of garage punk unknowns...even Jacques Dutronc & beyond...
fasten your fuzzbelts!...
To start it all off, one of the filthiest, gnarliest fuzz tones ever laid to wax: "Speed" by Ron Wray Light Show (1967)
& a nice fuzz-bass thumper which was recorded a full year before Satisfaction.
(FZ wrote, produced and played guitar on both sides at Studio Z in Cucamonga (1963) He might've played the fuzz bass here too, as well as drums - the average listener might not know FZ was a drummer first.)
Mr. Clean - Jessie Lee (1963)
