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It's funny-"Coffee Shop" would never have been a song if it weren't for this effect called the [Electro-Harmonix] BassBalls. [Ed. Note: For more about the BassBalls, see "Clearance Classics" in the July/Aug '95 Product Profiles.] I started playing with it one morning in Hawaii, and it had the most amazing underwater, Bootsy kind of sound-and it also had this siren effect going on. But when we got to L.A. to start recording, the box never made the sound again. I got so mad, I crushed it! I almost didn't even want to record the song, because to me, it was all about that bass sound. I ended up using a Boss Dynamic Filter on the record.
chilipeppers said:Is the effect in "coffee shop" by the chili peppers a Morley 105Q cry baby wah pedal.
poneet said:bahahaha yeah right...flea playing that solo while trying to manually use a wah pedal![]()
Why is this so unreal? Guitarists solo with manual wahs all the time.

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