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(via Glenn Snoddy, 96, Accidental Inventor of the Fuzz Tone, Dies - The New York Times)
…Though typically associated with ’60s rock — and maybe most famously with Keith Richards’s fat, buzzing guitar riff on the Rolling Stones’ 1965 hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” — the fuzz tone emerged from the studio session that produced the country singer Marty Robbins’s otherwise euphonious 1961 single “Don’t Worry.”
A malfunction in the console through which the playing of the electric bass guitarist Grady Martin was being transmitted caused the original fuzz-tone effect, Mr. Snoddy said in a video made by the National Association of Music Merchants in 2014.
The low, reverberant sound produced by Mr. Martin’s bass on “Don’t Worry,” which reached the country Top 10, was reminiscent of a rumbling car muffler.
Overriding the objections of Mr. Martin, who felt that another take was needed to fix what he considered an unwelcome sonic intrusion, Mr. Snoddy and Don Law, the session’s producer, believed they had a unique sound on their hands and decided to leave their putatively flawed recording intact.
Their instincts paid off, especially after Mr. Snoddy designed a device that could reproduce a fuzz tone on demand…
a bizarre case…and now he is convicted of the murder of journalist Kim Wall
this story just keep getting weirder…and more sinister
Submarine and shark science fiction dime novel, Motor Stories No. 20, July 10, 1909, “Motor Matt Makes Good; or, Another Victory for the Motor Boys” by the author of “Motor Matt” (William Wallace Cook). Collected as part of “Bob Steele’s Motor Boat; or, The Fellow They Could Not Beat” in Adventure Library No. 84 (1928), Medal Library No. 693 (1912) and hardcover Motor Power Series No. 7 (David McCay, 1909). Cook is best remembered as the inventor of Plotto, a writer’s aid.