In article , Roger W. Norman
wrote:

A more appropriate assessment is that a tube amp fails in a
predictable way, and as it fails (speakers break up, transformer
sags, etc) it produces a sound that seems to emanate from the
interaction of the player, guitar and amp.

And the story is that when recording the Marty Robbin's "Don't
Worry 'Bout Me" the bass player hit a note and it was distorted.

A tube had fallen out. He put it back, and then the producer
decided he liked it better with it out. Thus the first 'fuzztone'
was born.

A few days later Grady Martin recorded a song featuring this
new sound called "The Fuzz". This dates to about 1958 - and
remember playing both on the radio then. Of course only one
becamse a hit.

Bill
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