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Permalink RIP Glenn Snoddy - Inventor of the fuzz pedal

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https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2018/05/23/glenn-snoddy-nashville-sound-murfreesboro-distortion-pedal-fuzz-tone-marty-robbins-rolling-stones/636175002/

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of course while he can have a legitimate claim to making fuzz in a pedal form , Red Rhodes can too ..hard to say who was first .
It should be noted that Grady Martin had the fuzz sound on that Marty Robbins track , it was an accident ...same as Paul Burlison's loose tube on those Rock N Roll Trio cuts from '56 ....
What is not disputable is that 'the 2000lb Bee ' was released with awesome fuzztone 3 years before Satisfaction ..and that was using the Red Rhodes box ...was it the same circuit as the Maestro which used the Snoddy design ? maybe...

Paul Burlison was not playing lead on the Johnny Burnette recordings, that was Grady Martin as well. And you couldn’t get that sound with a Tele, no matter how broken your tubes. The guitar was a Bigsby, not a Tele.

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Last edited: Feb 02, 2024 14:00:20

Well I gotta agree with Kawentmann after reading this
http://www.the-jime.dk/Rockabilly_Guitar/Johnny_Burnette_The_Rock-n-Roll_Trio.htm
seems the popular 'loose tube ' story is an urban myth perpetuated by Burlison ...Id never heard the E-string theory before but it makes sense

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