Your introduction to fuzz

[Doc Holliday]

Awesome man!
I found this out a year or two ago.
NYC 2005 30th St guitars

I had a Black Gibson SG standard at the time.
So when I got to try out some pedals I asked for something similar.
Out of the awesome choice of amps I chose the JCM800

Tried out the Roger Mayer axis and the PEI experience , bought neither.
The previous day I had plugged in a zvex fuzz factory through that fawn JMP and bought it.
In the UK there was no access to these pedals really.
Going into that shop and seeing a display case full of PEI, zvex, frantone etc was ace

[Philip]

#premuscles ^

[squarewave]

Mudhoney - I had a chance to own one of Steve turners big muffs a few years back and missed it by 6 bloody dollars. My pals brother sniped me with seconds to go. Bloody.

[fernieite]

My first fuzz pedal was a Big Muff that I got in the late 70s. It was one of the versions after the Rams head. Version 3 to 5?

I also had a Mxr distortion + and a Morley Power wah, I think. Absolutely no remembrance of where I got them from.

I guess the hash and weed I was smoking wasn't fake! (Or the acid)

[Steve]

Got into Hendrix in my early teens back in the late 80s and that was it for me, I became obsessed.

[Doc Holliday]

#premuscles ^

Ha indeed. Cigarettes and beer being my chosen diet at the time.
Those NYC hot dogs and pizzas were wasted on me at the time.

[simonm]

heh - i am in my 50s now, so i can go back a bit further - I've told this story before but the first fuzz I saw/heard was in a band I played with in 1979 - sort of a Thin Lizzy style band, I played bass, we didn't play out, it was just a short-lived vehicle for the guitarist guy to record some demos. He had a Rat, which was quite exciting in the UK at the time. In 1980 my pal got a flat kind of Colorsound knock-off fuzz (might have been Champion brand? a 2-knobber, looked a bit like the B&M fuzz). i was starting to try to play the gtr at the time, and remember the fuzz covered up how weak my fingers were, and made it sound better! I got my first fuzz around 1985/6, peak chorus/flanger time, and was lucky enough to get a Supa Fuzz for £6 (though I didn't know what it was for another 10 yrs as some past eejit scratched all the paint off it).

[mythoughtcrime]

My first fuzz would be a big muff. In the 90's I had a big muff, rat, real tube by tubeworks, phase 90, and a vox wah. And that was it for years.

[1bottlerocket]

Back, when I was growing up in the early '70s the local radio station would play full albums uninterrupted on Sunday nights. I remember going to bed one Sunday night and I couldn't sleep so I turned on the radio and they were playing the Woodstock soundtrack. When Hendrix came on and I sat up and stared at the radio, listening in amazement at the sounds coming out. It was mind-blowing for me. The next day, I went to the music store after school and bought a tweed bassman and a Big Muff with my hard-earned paper route money.

[Philip]

A tweed Bassman via a paper round. Those were different days.