Can anyone dispute this??

I FEEL FINE was recorded October 18, 1964. It sounds like they played the beginning of the intro by picking a open string through a cold amp... just as the tubes were warming up. But, I never thought of the overall sound as "feedback".

I think SATISFACTION was the first monster hit to feature distortion... August, 1965.

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[This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 01 June 2002 at 02:03 PM.]

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" picking a open string through a cold amp... just as the tubes were warming up"

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I disagree, Doug. It sounds like a Hollowbody Electric guitar, pointing at the speaker, feeding back.

The first "distortion hit" that I know of was "RUMBLE" by Link Ray. It sold over a million copies in 1958. I think the distortion was caused by one loose power tube in a push-pull circuit.

These comments are just MHO, I'm not a historian, just an interested bystander..

[This message was edited by Joey Ace on 01 June 2002 at 02:17 PM.]

If not please explain.

The first recognized use of a fuzz-tone (and its first appearance on a chart record) however, was the Ventures' song "The 2,000-Pound Bee", in 1963.

(I'm still thinking about the "feedback" thing.)

[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 01 June 2002 at 04:54 PM.]

circa 1953/54.

paul burlison, the great guitar man from the johnny burnette trio, used to sit in with howlin' wolf in memphis, so no doubt he heard it long before he ever recorded with johnny.

[This message was edited by Mitch Drumm on 01 June 2002 at 11:55 PM.]

Thinking back to my "Learning to play with the Ventures" days, then evolved to the Chuck Berry school of standard R+R ,then on to the British invasion, I would say that John Lennon may be right, I wouldn't bet my life on it though . "Feedback" was not in the guitar players tool kit at that time. We were all trying to avoid it while the Beatles found a use for it !

Distortion is a different topic.

I remember when playing in our "Rolling Stones Emulation" band back in the mid 60's we were invited to go to NYC to record a demo , 5 young kids playing electric guitars with Beatle haircuts.. The producer /engineer would not let me use my Telecaster with the Vox fuzz box. He was adimant that I use his Gibson L series guitar clean through an Ampeg amp. I didn't even know what an L series was at the time..Did you ever try to play Satisfaction with a Gibson L series clean ? He evidently wanted me to play the Johhny Smith version of Satisfaction, but that wasn't gonna happen anytime soon, well at least not that day.. He sent us away cause we didn't play real music.
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[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 02 June 2002 at 05:11 AM.]

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great distorted electric guitar on a number of blues recordings done by sam phillips in memphis--artists like howlin' wolf and james cotton; guitar by the likes of pat hare and willie johnson.
circa 1953/54.

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The technique George used on "I Feel Fine" is as follows:

He placed his left middle finger on top of the 5th String (A) just below the nut and picked the string - sounded somewhat "damped" but according to what I have read....and the way I have played for years.....that sounds like the deal...

Try it...you will see...

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Bob Shilling, Berkeley, CA--MSA S10, "Classic"

[This message was edited by Bob Shilling on 13 June 2002 at 12:08 PM.]