Topping things off is a terrific score by Erwin Romulo and Malek Lopez that employs everything from jaw harp to
fuzztone guitar and pulse-quickening drumbeats."
Together with rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja and drummer Jim McCarthy they created driving rock out of standard 12 bar blues and experimented with feedback, sustain and
fuzztone.
shaping--punching holes in a speaker to get
fuzztone, loosening tubes
In reasonably reliant Reliant I drove into town, past a Christmas tree lot, and I thought again of the burnt guy from The Wailers, but it was all right: I'll have some grog or eggnog in memory of him and his old
fuzztone band.
A lone guitarist wailing
fuzztone leads through a Pignose amp somewhere out on the Drag.
After an opening in a C&W club where Basehead, presumably booked by mistake, introduces its first number as "a song about the problems that the white male has to face in America today" (the song consists of about two seconds of
fuzztone), Ivey meanders, drifts, and complains about sex, police harassment, racism, oblivion, girlfriends, boredom, and drive-by shootings, until each sounds most of all not fun and he sounds like someone you'd love spending time with.
With the sun in the sky I might just get the old
Fuzztones LP out again, though I'll pour the Beavertown Gammaray in a glass rather than shotgunning it.
in 1979 and established a new label, Voxx, as a purist, low-budget home for '60s garage-style bands, including the Crawdaddys, the
Fuzztones, the Lyres and the Pandoras.
Not droning, but rather in the garage vein, like early
Fuzztones stuff.
THE guitarist credited by Jimi Hendrix with having inspired his initial experiments with
fuzztones plays at the Greyhound in Much Park Street, Coventry, tomorrow.