So, what's so famous about this ol country song?

[Guildedagain]

 

[Westerly Wood]

first time hearing it....

killer electric guitar break lol

it's almost hysterical.

 

[Guildedagain]

Man, he was hysterical ;]

Released in 1961, rather avant garde in a certain respect, and you nailed it.

It's not electric "guitar" but rather Grady Martin's 6 string Danelectro bass, with hella distortion. This predates Satisfaction or whatever the usual commonly accepted 1st use of "fuzz" on a record by like 5 years.

Grady Martin - Bass Fuzz Pioneer - 1961

Just heard this the other day and it blew me away. Grady Martin, Nashville session master, is credited with playing a Danelectro six string baritone...

www.talkbass.com

My last Dano 6 string bass, or baritone guitar. Foolishly sold it, that was my 2nd one.

I sold it because it lacked the punch of my P Bass live.

 

[walrus]

Wow. That was pretty entertaining! He was playing some interesting chords.

walrus

 

[Westerly Wood]

Outside of Townes Van Zandt, I am not much of a country music fan. I do like the Josh guy with the real deep voice. Forget his last name.

 

[dreadnut]

Thanks, I hadn't heard that one. Of course his most famous song s "El Paso."

 

[F312]

When he wasn't racing Nascar, he played a little guitar.

 

[Nuuska]

Now - THAT original post is definitively NOT original singing - every now & then he's so far away from that mike, that even toaday it would be almost next to impossible to make him sound as if he'd be close mice'd.

 

[Okko]

Now - THAT original post is definitively NOT original singing - every now & then he's so far away from that mike, that even toaday it would be almost next to impossible to make him sound as if he'd be close mice'd.

maybe ’playback’ was the second experiment in this song (or dong) .

 

[F312]

Not much movement from the band in the background.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Thanks, I hadn't heard that one. Of course his most famous song s "El Paso."

Now that one I have heard!

 

[wileypickett]

Use of the fuzz went from Robbins (first use), to Nancy Sinatra ("Boots," second use) to Keith Richard ("Satisfaction," third use).

Only in the '60s!

 

[FNG]

My last job had an open work area, and the old goobers would gather around and play Marty Robbins on their computer rather loudly and heehaw about how great he was. West Texas town of El Paso my a$$..lol.

I would go to youtube and play this just as loud..

 

[crank]

My jam band, About Half Dead, covers El Paso which the Dead covered. Going back and listening to Marty Robin's version I found freaking great guitar licks and really nice vocal harmonies. I stole a nice double stop lick and recently heard Billy Strings playing the same damn lick as an intro to Merle Haggard's Lonesome Fugitive. So now I use that lick for both El Paso and Lonesome Fugitive.

Love me some good old country!

 

[Rambozo96]

Use of the fuzz went from Robbins (first use), to Nancy Sinatra ("Boots," second use) to Keith Richard ("Satisfaction," third use).

Only in the '60s!

The Ventures had a fuzzed out song but I’m failing to remember the title. Something Bee

 

[Guildedagain]

Thousand pound Bee?

 

[Rambozo96]

Possible, I think Red Rhodes may have made the fuzz unit for that song. Of course the schematics if ever drawn up are lost to time and the units used on the song long since misplaced or stolen so it’ll probably never be recreated exactly though I do remember a Shin Ei FY-2 and a Mosrite Fuzzrite clone I made got close to that nasal fuzz tone. Does you no good to stress actual details when you can get pretty close with well known equipment.

 

[SFIV1967]

Possible, I think Red Rhodes may have made the fuzz unit for that song.

According to Wikipedia: "Session guitarist Grady Martin, used a faulty channel in the mixing desk for his six-string bass, for the bridge section and brief reprise right at the end, to create a distorted fuzzy sound. Although Martin did not like the sound, Robbins' producer left the guitar track as it was. The sound was eventually reverse-engineered and developed into the Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone, manufactured by Gibson."

And here's a longer but interesting story what went bad on that console and how it developed into the FZ-1:

Maestro Fuzz-Tone | Vintage Guitar® magazine

Fuzz. It’s the sound of fury, aggravation, indignation, and – considering the history of the most famous fuzzbox of all time, Maestro’s Fuzz-Tone – dissatisfaction. It’s also fitting as some of the first recorded electric fuzz guitar was heard via Howlin’ Wolf guitarist Willie Lee Johnson, who...

www.vintageguitar.com

Ralf

 

[wileypickett]

Is Nancy Sinatra the Mother of the Fuzz Pedal?

The pop scion wanted the tone, so the fuzz pedal's creators went to work.

reverb.com

 

[SFIV1967]

Same story like in the Vintage Guitar story. So seems to be the case that it was her driving it further.
Ralf