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06-19-2009, 09:22 AM
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here's a VERY fun and highly informative WFMU link on the use of fuzz tone in country music
maybe you've read about how the first fuzz was a shot mixer channel used on a marty robbins song - well listen to that song, "Don't Worry" and you'll see that the fuzz was used for a LEAD BASS track.
Well OK so it is probably baritone guitar but check it out! lotsa links |
06-19-2009, 11:32 AM
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06-19-2009, 11:44 AM
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06-19-2009, 11:49 AM
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06-19-2009, 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by rcubed Cool link. The origins are interesting and I'd think most people didn't know that country music started the use of fuzz tone. | not only that, but the "first ever recorded fuzz" was closer to being a bassline than it was to a guitar lead - and an UP FRONT bassline, at that
make your guitar players, listen to that clip, everybody! (fuzz starts almost halfway through) |
06-19-2009, 11:53 AM
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The next song (Wonder Drug) is awesome.
EDIT: ^^First time I've experienced "Tic Tac" bass where an upright does the low end and an EB provides the attack.
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06-19-2009, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy The first track sounded more like a baritone guitar solo more than a bassline. It doesn;t detract from it's coolness though.
The next song (Wonder Drug) is awesome. | country fuzz!!! I think I'm going to steal that for a band name |
06-19-2009, 11:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Vista, CA | | Well the role of the fuzz is the important part. Personally I like fuzz more on bass than guitar. Guitards should only be allowed natural tube overdrive.  |
06-19-2009, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy The first track sounded more like a baritone guitar solo more than a bassline. It doesn;t detract from it's coolness though. | Quote: |
Originally Posted by RCCollins in the original post Well OK so it is probably baritone guitar but check it out! lotsa links | Quote: |
Originally Posted by RCCollins again not only that, but the "first ever recorded fuzz" was closer to being a bassline than it was to a guitar lead | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tampabass country fuzz!!! I think I'm going to steal that for a band name | i already copyrighted it, but without the "o" 
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06-19-2009, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by RCCollins i already copyrighted it, but without the "o" | Yep, the only way to spell it. Maybe even go with Cuntry Muff Fuzz.  |
06-19-2009, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by RCCollins | 
Sorry,...I get what mean,....still very cool.
The Claude Gray song was a fuzz guitar doubling the bassline. Neato.
I feel like I should start listening to these older Country artists.
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06-19-2009, 01:42 PM
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At risk of totally derailing the thread, here's a great story about Carlene Carter and the C word.
In 1977, during a concert at New York's Bottom Line, she introduced a song by stating, "If this song don't put the c*** back in country, I don't know what will." |
06-19-2009, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by warwick.hoy EDIT: ^^First time I've experienced "Tic Tac" bass where an upright does the low end and an EB provides the attack. |
Really?? You've had to have heard it before, like some early Four Seasons stuff maybe? "Dawn (Go Away)" [the original single version]???
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06-19-2009, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by lunarpollen Really?? You've had to have heard it before, like some early Four Seasons stuff maybe? "Dawn (Go Away)" [the original single version]??? | Maybe,
but in a context where I could really hear it and be hip to the recording technique. |
06-19-2009, 05:29 PM
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06-19-2009, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by RCCollins y'all young whippersnappers need to do yer listening homework | |
06-19-2009, 05:37 PM
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06-19-2009, 05:37 PM
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06-19-2009, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by OlSkewl56 Off topic, RC but I dig your new avatar, still have that album I bought when first released! | thanks, I got my copy of that one and "Outside/Inside" (which is actually my favorite of theirs) autographed by Dickie Peterson a year or so back!
I also got to talk gear with him for a bit - he was using a vintage Traynor rig at that show |
06-19-2009, 05:57 PM
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I remember watching them in black & white on Bandstand, went and bought my first bass soon after.
Thanks for the story.
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