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Your favorite vintage fuzz recordings?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:37 am
by VacuumVoodoo
I like this one, especially solo after ca 03:00 mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvMETCQAf1w

I wager it's Supafuzz

Re: Your favorite vintage fuzz recordings?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:09 pm
by Donner
yea good one... sounds like Uriah Heep...

wheres Gun from,, never heard of them.....

Re: Your favorite vintage fuzz recordings?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:25 am
by GDKing
Donner wrote:yea good one... sounds like Uriah Heep...

wheres Gun from,, never heard of them.....



They are from a land where white guys can grow massive cool afros.

Re: Your favorite vintage fuzz recordings?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:45 am
by VacuumVoodoo
Donner wrote:yea good one... sounds like Uriah Heep...

wheres Gun from,, never heard of them.....


Know your British Rock 101 :wink:
Gurvitz brothers, after Guns demise formed Baker Gurvitz Army with Ginger Baker in 1974, later joined with Greame Edge (ex Moody Blues), went dormant for a time and reappeared for a while on the disco scene.

That lead sound was one of the templates in my early tone quest. A Supafuzz copy using Soviet milspecd germanium transistors and some minor tweaks came pretty close. Two of those in series sounded very close to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1x6NNNfVJc

Damn, I left pedals in mid 1970s.........may be I should hunt down a bunch of those soviet germaniums......

Re: Your favorite vintage fuzz recordings?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:25 am
by Donner
Damn, I left pedals in mid 1970s.........may be I should hunt down a bunch of those soviet germaniums......[/quote]

YES Please -
Perhaps a Louder and More Tube Fuzz 8) ?!?!!?