Examples of early use of FUZZ on bass guitar?

Frank Zappa-Apostrophe' - YouTube

Pretty good example if you asked me.

 

There's a fuzz bassline buried low in the mix in Jefferson Airplane's "She Has Funny Cars" off of Surrealistic Pillow. That was recorded in '67 IIRC.

 

Sly & the Family Stone - Dance to the Music - YouTube

1:16 Larry Graham Fuzz Bass solo 1968

 

The Stones' cover of the Solomon Burke tune "Pain In My Heart" (on the US lp "The Rolling Stones Now") had what sounds like a fuzz bass on it. That was in '65.

Also, a few Stones songs on Aftermath (US release): "Flight 505", "Think", and "It's Not Easy". Probably used a Gibson Maestro Fuzz Tone.

 

Curtis Mayfield - 'If there's a hell below, we're all going to go'

 

Hey CHILDISHGAMBINO...that's Jack Bruce on Zappa's Apostrophe. Great solo, IMHO...

 

Here's me in 1965/66. Homemade fuzz box made by a local electronics guy called Bernie Bisphan, who also made our valve amps. The bass and lead guitar both using fuzz.

 

Supposedly, Marty Robbins band in the 1960's accidentally recorded the first bass fuzz/distortion. The song is called 'Dont Worry'. the story goes that the recording console had some wires touching causing the bass to 'fuzz out' and they decided to keep it..

 

Dunno what the first song with fuzz in it was, but I wish I could've been there... would've been an awesome experience.

 

Sly and the Family Stone has already been mentioned but "I Want To Take You Higher" (1969) is the song that i think of when i think of early massive bass fuzz tone. It really dominates the low end of the song whenever i listen to it.

 

Felix Papilardi (probably mispelled his name ) of Mountain played his Gibson violin bass through some kind of distortion pedal. I recall a live Mountain album from my youth that had the most awesome sounding bass I had ever heard.

 

Felix didn´t use a pedal, he did the same thing that jack Bruce did...he had a simple silicone diode wired into his bass...and yes the bas tone at Filmore east was amazing..still my favourite bass tone and player too incidently

 

Money right there- that's what I was going to say if it hadn't been said already. Nasty stuff!

 

1969, awesome fuzz at 00:40

 

I believe Think For Yourself is the first...

 

Aftermath , Under my Thumb I believe was the first song recorded by a major act with intentional bass distortion. 1966. There was other tunes on there with da fuzz but I hear that it was the first song recorded and the first hit.

 

One of my favorites is this '68 psych jem:



Stereo Shoestrings - - on the road south

Fuzz and wah!