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Bands, Albums or Songs Containing the Names of Guitar Pedals
Posted by smithylad on 11 July 2009 - 10:45am.
I'm toying with the idea of building a Pedal Board for when I play live, (which my friend Mike, who knows about these things, guarantees will make me look like an arse) and that started me thinking about bands and songs containing the names of guitar pedals.
We've Got a Fuzzbox and We're Going to Use It is surely the ultimate, (and in the process of getting the spelling right, I came across this gem - ).
But if I may also offer:
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Mudhoney's Superfuzz Bigmuff
Echobelly
Spiritualized's Pure Phase
And I might throw in King Tut's Wah Wah Hut for good measure. And Let It Bleed cake maker Delay-a Smith.
Over to you...
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John Martyn
Big Muff, from One World
Play it Cool by Super Furry Animals mentions the Electric Mistress, an early delay pedal
Errrrm, Echo, by Tom Petty? Any excuse to mention this overlooked song.
I may be wrong
but I thought Big Muff was dedicated to Muff Winwood (brother of Steve, also ex Spencer Davis) who was an Island A&R man.
Kathryn Williams
"Sustain Pedal" from Leave To Remain.
off topic-ish
But that's a wonderful record, isn't it?
Off topic?
That's to be expected, surely?
Around these parts there is a logical progression from discussing songs that mention effects pedals to devising the perfect way to cook black pudding to picking apart the finer points of the sleeve notes on Yes albums. Often within the same thread.
Lovely album
Particularly "Room In My Head".
George Harrison's...
Wah-Wah from 'All Things Must Pass'.
Social Distortion
and if that's not good enough how about Macca's Frog Chorus.
I'm here all week.
Nice feature in this month's Wired UK
on guitar pedals. Double page spread of them.
Anything by...
The Boss.
or Copicat Power.
Possibly singing Flange for the Memories...
Fred Neil
Green Rocky Road (one for Danelectro fans)
It still astonishes me
That the old-fashioned stomp-boxes of my youth are still manufactured, used and loved in this age of polydigital microsized ubiquity. So I gaze at the floor in the spare bedroom, put on the thinking-cap and come up with..
The Frazier Chorus
The Delays
Wah
Wah Wah
Page and Plant, wasn't it?
Big Muff Winwood ...
... obviously.
Rat 2 Scabies.
Beck's O-delay.
Sustain of a Down.
The Swell Maps.
The Tremolos.