Sickle wrote:Question is, how did Mayer customize a Fuzz face for Jimmy when the Tone bender hadn't been invented yet? My understanding is a Fuzz Face is a crappy Tone Bender clone..
All these fuckers hail from the FZ-1, tho.
That was for Jimi, not Jimmy...talking about his earliest recordings (Jimi)
I'm assuming he's referring to the earliest Experience sessions, that would've been late '66
...and we know that the Italian Vox Tone Bender and Arbiter Fuzz Face were already out by then,
so that must've been the time Mayer did a customized Fuzz Face type pedal for Jimi.
It would make sense that a Mayer custom pedal from '64 would be based on the Maestro FZ-1...
Though Page was mistaken in that interview when he said the Ventures 2,000 LB. Bee was a "fuzztone" (that is, if he meant a Maestro)...'cause it was an early Ge FUZZrite on that recording.....same with The Ventures' (Swinging) Creeper and also Hornet's Nest while Jimi was with Curtis Knight in '65.....