Fuzzed out pop

[Inconuucl]

I love you guys

[daseb]

KARP are like the best band ever

[Thylacine Dream]

The first known use of fuzz, period, was Grady Martin's "The Fuzz," 1961. It wasn't a pedal; the engineer pushed the levels in the studio. He was playing a Danelectro six-string bass. Imagine how this must have sounded to people who'd never heard a sound like that before. Fucking intense.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp3YHnDPRv0[/youtube]

Huh, never heard that track before. I always heard Marty Robbins' "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" was the first, and that it was just a faulty board. They're from the same year, do we know which was recorded first? (I'm on mobile so I can't get the embed, if someone could help me out)
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Q2WBBcH6OPU[/youtube]

[lordgalvar]

It says in the youtube desc of the Grady Martin song that Marty Robbins song was first but Grady Martin was a musician on the Marty Robbins song.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WBBcH6OPU[/youtube]

[casecandy]

So, we were both right, then! In a way. I got the song wrong, but it happened like I said.

I dug out Deke Dickerson's book The Strat In The Attic 2 (I can't recommend it or the original Strat In The Attic highly enough; it's so much music history you wonder how he crammed it into 300 or so pages between the two books, like a crash course). This is from the chapter, "The $2.98 Danelectro and the $7,500 Danelectro: The Allure of Fine Masonite." Dickerson is a big Dano aficionado, even personally owning Link Wray's Longhorn guitarlin. He writes (bold and ellipses mine, obviously):

I was familiar with Grady's innovative work with the Danelectro six-string bass... Besides playing "tic tac"... on many famous records... Grady busted out the Dano for... Marty Robbins 1961 hit "Don't Worry." ... "Don't Worry" featured Grady playing the six-string Danelectro bass, with a twist. At the recording session that day, a channel on the mixing console overloaded and started making a distorted sound. Just as engineer Glen Snoddy was ready to bypass the malfunctioning channel, Grady suggested they run the... bass through it to achieve an unusual effect. The result was the first true "fuzz" effect (different than just an overdriven amplifier) ever recorded... Snoddy liked the effect so much that he copied what had gone wrong in the channel strip and then marketed his schematic and idea to Gibson, who soon released the effect as a pedal, the Maestro Fuzz Tone, the first of its kind. In a nutshell, Grady Martin invented [fuzz] on the Danelectro bass in 1961... years before The Rolling Stones used it on "Satisfaction."

The thing we love was a totally happy accident. Love it.

[lordgalvar]

So yea, what I said.

[casecandy]

So yea, what I said.

[More_Divebombs]

Ovens

Think this might be their whole discography, barring the final 7"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea5LfrFuOBU[/youtube]

Here's the final 7"
https://meltersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/7

Tony Molina's solo stuff is more of the same
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ngMaTP62g[/youtube]

[PeteeBee]

Tony Molina is incredible. And super nice. I've helped do sound at a couple shows with him. Always enjoyable.

[D.o.S.]

KARP are like the best band ever

They're no tight bros from way back when.

[daseb]

Never got into them. At the point that I heard them I was probably too busy listening to fucking Anasarca or some other garbage like that.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apaARRr00Uw[/youtube]

Anyway this album is really good based on one listen.

[tremolo3]

I like Weezer and Dinosaur Jr.

[casecandy]

I like Weezer

Really if you have the blue album and Pinkerton nothing bad can happen to you in life

"Tired of Sex" is a serious contender for best Side A, Track 1 of all time... that's how a record ought to start. Just rip your head off

[frodog]

Brazil and England. Lost Sound Tapes and Slumberland.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrHSvvrikmM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTebot8rJU[/youtube]

[futuresailors]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_pQYGs0ysU[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUxHdF_XPO0[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f630Fx79uUo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qk8fVEuzCQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSfpGXroBcE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwYLzrmr9ps[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhU7xRMcMcI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDH9UfE9SMo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C5T3ZHGCj8[/youtube]