the distorted guitar always does it for me and makes me smile :)

[mrwheels]

one of the funnest songs ever :)

[mrwheels]

i love heart and stairway to heaven put it together you have a spiritual experience :)

[CaribbeanZack]

Great Thread mrwheels. Thanks to my Dad this was my first introduction to distortion

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[Davest]

In many ways distortion is the history of rock and roll. Check out this short history.

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One of my favorite distortion songs is Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells (1968) A little over 4 minutes in, they distort/echo the voice track too.

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The distortion/reverb on How Soon is Now by the Smiths is what drew me to the song as a teenager.

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[ErikB]

Great Thread mrwheels. Thanks to my Dad this was my first introduction to distortion

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I loved this video. The people who made it went on to produce a fantastic CGI-only TV series called ReBoot.
Within ReBoot, they were having a talent competition for one of the character's birthdays. They lampooned their
own prior work:

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In the same episode, one of the villains showed up and had a guitar battle with the main good guy:

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[WalterB]

The first "Fuzz" guitar I remember hearing was one of these. They were out at roughly the same time. The first is "Rumble" by Link Wray and the Wraymen. A "rumble" back then was a street fight, usually between street gangs. So, the clip adds to the mystique of the song. It's one of my favorite oldies.

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The next is a Country singer, Marty Robbins with "Don't Worry 'bout Me." It starts out kind of sappy, but the fuzz guitar starts at about 1:25. Marty Robbins was a popular Country singer in the '50's - '60's. He's the fellow who wrote and sang "(Out in the West Texas Town of) El Paso."

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Well, I might as well go ahead and post it. It's 4-1/2 minutes long. But you can actually understand the words, lol. It tells a pretty good story. You should listen along.

i case you're wondering, yes, Rosa's Cantina is a real place, over on the West Side, and yes, I've been there. Marty and his crew were driving west in about 1956 - long before freeways. It was early afternoon when they came through El Paso. They saw Rosa's and decided to stop there for lunch. After lunch, they continued west. Marty was pretty impressed with El Paso and the surrounding countryside. The words came to him as they continued west, and supposedly he wrote the first version on a paper bag (that seems to happen a lot, lol.)
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[Davest]

The first "Fuzz" guitar I remember hearing was one of these. They were out at roughly the same time. The first is "Rumble" by Link Wray and the Wraymen. A "rumble" back then was a street fight, usually between street gangs. So, the clip adds to the mystique of the song. It's one of my favorite oldies.

Link Wray was featured starting at 4:12 in the history of distortion video I posted. very cool, Walt!

[WalterB]

Thanks for the reminder, Davest. I remember now. I had started it. But someone came to the door, and I never got back to it. That's a good clip.