Top 5 favourite recorded fuzz sounds

Coda said:
The Rubber Soul track "Think for Yourself" has MK 1 (or maybe 1.5) as a Bass overdub. I point that out not to be a jerk, or even to correct an error, but because the bassline in "The Word" has one of my favorite bass runs ever...comes in at about 1:28 in the attached video...

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Not a jerk at all. I was aware of "Think for Yourself", too, it's just that I only became recently aware that the distorted line in "Word" was a second bass. After all these decades of thinking the bass line was basically clean (and the main line is), then *poof* —
mind blown. Who says bands can't have two bass players!? Topic for 'nother thread...
THANKS FOR THE VID, I'll try to learn the line.

Ask me tomorrow for another 5 and I'll probably come up with a totally different set of 10 tunes — except for Marty Robbins ... that fuzzed bass line was seminal, it'll always be in the top 3.


I should edit my Top 5 post and put in the bass player's name in each instance, but I'll pop it in here:

Grady Martin, a session ace with a six-string bass.
Jack Bruce, playing a "hello it's not a cello".
Colin Greenwood, ... wait for it ...
Rob Wright, must be the water in Victoria.
Scott Rozell, side-note: Tool's vocalist does the Piggies' falsetto "Not by the hair..."


As for FUZZ-guitar, other people have already mentioned my faves.

Surprised nobody's mentioned ZZ Top...

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BEST FUZZ BASS EVER!
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Feral Feline said:
Not a jerk at all. I was aware of "Think for Yourself", too, it's just that I only became recently aware that the distorted line in "Word" was a second bass. After all these decades of thinking the bass line was basically clean (and the main line is), then *poof* —
mind blown. Who says bands can't have two bass players!? Topic for 'nother thread...
THANKS FOR THE VID, I'll try to learn the line.

Ask me tomorrow for another 5 and I'll probably come up with a totally different set of 10 tunes — except for Marty Robbins ... that fuzzed bass line was seminal, it'll always be in the top 3.


I should edit my Top 5 post and put in the bass player's name in each instance, but I'll pop it in here:

Grady Martin, a session ace with a six-string bass.
Jack Bruce, playing a "hello it's not a cello".
Colin Greenwood, ... wait for it ...
Rob Wright, must be the water in Victoria.
Scott Rozell, side-note: Tool's vocalist does the Piggies' falsetto "Not by the hair..."


As for FUZZ-guitar, other people have already mentioned my faves.

Surprised nobody's mentioned ZZ Top...

zztop41.jpg




BEST FUZZ BASS EVER!
819374375_6e2677001e_z.jpg
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Right, the accent line. You are correct there. I always overlook that, due to my near obsession with the aforementioned bass riff. Once I hear it I blackout, and often wake up miles away…
 
Ohh this is a good one. And so tough!
  • Pink Floyd: Dogs (solo)
  • Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream (really any song for me)
  • Jimi Hendrix: Spanish Castle Magic
  • Dinosaur Jr: anything J Mascis plays…
  • Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (was it fuzz or just Marshall+Mesa high gain?)
 
This was a fun one. I listed my top 5 for guitar, but how about my top 5 bass (studio) fuzz tones?

  1. King Crimson- Larks’ Tongues in Aspic pt 1
    • John Wetton; Jen Doubke Sound Fuzz Wah
  2. Radiohead- Exit Music (For A Film)
    • Colin Greenwood; Shin Ei FY-2
  3. The Beatles- Think For Yourself
    • Paul McCartney; Tonebender (mk 1?)
  4. Steely Dan- Monkey in your Soul
    • Walter Becker (probably); unknown fuzz pedal
  5. Frank Zappa- Apostrophe’
    • Jack Bruce; unknown fuzz pedal
Big honorable mention to Ralphe Armstrong’s absolutely caustic fuzz-Wah tone on Jean Luc Ponty’s The Struggle of the Turtle to the Sea - Part III. Starts around 1:00
 
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