Maestro Twang

sleepy pete — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:30:30 -0800

The Maestro FZ-1 Fuzztone was one of the first stomp boxes a guitar player could use. Released in 1962 by Gibson, sales didn't take off until a British band used it in the introduction to one of their songs in 1965. But if it weren't for a Marty Robbins song and engineer Glen Snoddy, the pedal might have never been invented and country music wouldn't have been the same. The page has an amazing list of mp3s of country artists incorporating the fuzz tone at the bottom, in case you don't feel like reading. I recommend all of them.

Enrico Caruso

carter — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:43:53 -0800

Collected works of Enrico Caruso. Approximately seven hours of vintage, public domain recordings of Il Maestro, courtesy of the Internet Archive's 78 rpm collections. Amongst my favourites: Del Tempio Al Limita, a duet with Mario Ancona from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, and Cantique de Noel. Sublime.

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Maestro Twang

Enrico Caruso