Glenn Snoddy Obituary in New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/obituaries/glenn-snoddy-96-accidental-inventor-of-the-fuzz-tone-dies.html
Glenn Snoddy talks about the invention of the Maestro Fuzz Tone -
https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/glenn-snoddy
Maestro Fuzz Demo Record 1962 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=253&v=VAWwBEx3Qkc
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Glenn Snoddy talks about the invention of the Maestro Fuzz Tone -
https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/glenn-snoddy
Maestro Fuzz Demo Record 1962 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=253&v=VAWwBEx3Qkc
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Nicely produced!
I never knew fuzztone started as a happy accident! Sonic serendipity!
When the Fuzztone came out, a fellow musician opened it up, rewired it so it could handle a 9V battery, and the result was amazing ! Everyone who heard it wanted the upgrade ! Maybe he could have developed his own pedal, but at 16 years old, he had other things on his mind, like playing baseball and chasing girls !
At least he didn't call it the Snoddtone ;).
Love your videos, Fran!
Orville 'Red' Rhodes made the first purpose built fuzz pedal which The Ventures used on their '2,000 pound bee, parts 1 and 2' single in 1962. Red Rhodes also built the first compressor pedal which Nokie Edwards of The Ventures used during the late 1963 recording sessions for their 'In Space' album.
Thank you Glenn Snoddy! And Fran. 😆
Excellent show Fran.. Happy to be your 100th comment !! 🙂
When the comments section is just as interesting as the video!. Thanks I've had my Boss DS1 for 30 years, I love pedals, the history of guitar and they folks that make them. Nice work Fran Blanche, I'm guessing you have made a distortion pedal?
Fran, when I try to wrap my head around your life and body of work, and consider President Tinyhands trying to oust trans people from the military, I start to understand the real price of ignorance.
I’m a little late catching up on my backlog of missed videos, but that was really a wonderful and fantastic journey back into the early history of electronic effect pedals. Thank you for sharing this bit of music history with all of us, I really enjoy these little diversions you throw in from time to time!
Fran, I just watched your video on Glen Snoddy. I'm not sure where your information came from but it is not completely accurate. If you look up U S Patent # 3,213,181 issued October 19, 1965 you will see that the patent was issued to Glen Snoddy and Revis V. Hobbs. My father was Revis Hobbs. I was in high school when this occurred and remember it very well. My father worked for WSM as an engineer and was a friend of Glen's. Glen called my father and said if he could reproduce the sound that occurred on Marty Robbin's hit "Don't Worry about me" they could probably make some money. Dad worked in the shop at the studio and I went with him. Dad had studied transistors and was able to develop the circuitry. When he had a working prototype he and Glen drove to Gibson in Chicago and made a presentation. Dad received royalties for a number of years. I have his files and copies of the royalty statements. I also have an original Fuzz Tone that Gibson gave him. I think it is only fitting that my dad should get credit for his equal contribution in this neat invention.
Polystyrene caps?