Captain Beefheart fuzz bass flashback!

[RCCollins]

the opening is amusing, but if you haven't heard the magic band's "diddy wah diddy" and you're a fuzz bass freak, you've gotta dig jerry handley's over-the-top and up-front-in-the-mix fuzzthump. It's a rare example of a well-recorded fuzz on bass from the mid 60s.

 

[Smurf-o-Deth]

Nice!

 

[gr8fulhiker]

Check out Ashtray Heart from their performance on SNL. So raw...so righteous.

R.I.P. Captain - you'll be missed

 

[warwick.hoy]

That sounds great. Does anyone know how that sound was achieved? (Clipped board? Early Fuzz Pedal?)

Lastly,...was there ever a time when white people could dance?

 

[bassbrad]

Brassmaster?

 

[RCCollins]

Brassmaster?

not in 1965-6!

 

[warwick.hoy]

I wondered Brassmaster myself,...but I don't know if that was in production at the time this was recorded (song was released in 1966 according to wiki).

 

[fu22ba55]

Brings the fuzz at 1:36



(Zig Zag Wanderer)

 

[fu22ba55]

Does anyone know how that sound was achieved?

Um... by turning up the bass amp?

I imagine the phrases "clean headroom" and "bass amp" didn't really cross paths much back in those days. Inefficient cabs and 30-60 watt amps were the norm... At that point bassists were just happy to be heard at all.

 

[RCCollins]

Um... by turning up the bass amp?

I imagine the phrases "clean headroom" and "bass amp" didn't really cross paths much back in those days. Inefficient cabs and 30-60 watt amps were the norm... At that point bassists were just happy to be heard at all.

maybe... but there'd be a lot of bass loss that way, and "diddy wah" has low end to spare!

 

[surfingbird1]

I think I remember it being a super fuzz pedal, where they in production yet

 

[DosiYanarchy]

great tune, great tone, it does sound a little like a brassmaster

 

[RCCollins]

can't be a brassmaster or superfuzz. COULD be a fuzzrite, which is my guess. second guess would be a maestro.

 

[jumbo_steelie]

Great tune!!!

 

[Jawbone]

+1 on the maestro, definitely not a lot to choose from in the 60s.

 

[nad]

That sounds great. Does anyone know how that sound was achieved?

VT Bass.

 

[warwick.hoy]

VT Bass.

 

[RCCollins]

VT Bass.

I hope nobody really thinks that would be a good choice for this type of sound

 

[ampegfuzz]

I have had a moog maestro fuzz for 5 or so years now and it has been on about every board I've ever put together.

 

[RCCollins]

I have had a moog maestro fuzz for 5 or so years now and it has been on about every board I've ever put together.

not the Maestro FZ-1 we're talking about... but i listened to your clip and that fuzz sounds awesome! You got yourself a rare bird there