My very most favorite song by Marty Robbins. It has an interesting story as well... :) The story begins when session Grady Martin plugged his 6-string bass directly into the mixing desk to get a backing track down on Marty Robbins (wonderful) Dont Worry. Martin hit a note with level turned up too high, promptly blowing the channel. To their eternal credit and good taste, the engineers, having taken a liking to the heavily distorted sound of the damaged console, decided to roll the tape and go with the fuzz. Thus a distinctly fuzzy bass solo made it onto the resulting single which, apparently much to Grady Martins bemusement, rapidly climbed to number 3 on the US chart. Not being of a mind to pass on a potentially lucrative gimmick, the studios wanted more of the same. Rather than relying on broken equipment Glen T. Snoddy, session engineer on Dont Worry, began working on a device that would produce the effect reliably on demand. By 1962, two years after that epochal session, Snoddys design went on sale as the Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:55:07 +0000
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