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Guitar Town
When I first started playing and trying to cop tones, the sound most of my peers and I thought was the best was Eddie Van Halen’s on their first album, Van Halen I. It had outrageously high gain, yet sounded almost pretty with its juiciness. I also dug the tones of John Sykes, with his beefy tone with lots of fuzzy sizzle on top, and the first [...]
Guitar Town – My Favorite Fuzzies
by Gary Vogel My Favorite Fuzzies Distortion. It is the very essence of rock guitar. I remember back when I was an uber-serious teenager on a quest for information on all things related to electronic music equipment. Scouring the stacks at the downtown St. Paul library (they let you do that back then, and they had actual books made of paper, [...]










