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RE: (TV) Re: clean guitar tone



Not to forget Dave Davies, who pretty much invented rock guitar distortion
by punching little holes in his speaker cone for the recording of "You
Really Got Me".

Jim K.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com]On Behalf Of
> Martin McClellan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 11:29 PM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: RE: (TV) Re: clean guitar tone
>
>
> Some of the best distortion on record was done without pedals: The Sonics,
> early Stooges (I think...does anybody know for sure?), early Van
> Halen (Well
> he DID change the way electric guitars are played. Got to give him credit
> for that) and, god love them, AC/DC (ever stood in front of a 100-watt
> Marshall full stack wide open? The angels sing...A friend once told me
> "yeah, it's rips holes in your aura, and you get a rush." Whatever man, he
> was right about the second part).
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