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It may be apocryphal but that story is generally credited to Venom, and accident rather than intention.
by donavanm 5y ago
It may be apocryphal but that story is generally credited to Venom, and accident rather than intention.
- InitialLastName 5y agoThat story goes back much further than Venom. The version I've seen was from Ike Turner and his band, for the "Rocket 88" recording session in 1951 or so. From Deep Blues by Robert Palmer (page 222): > "Everyone was excited and ready to record 'Rocket 88,' but there was a problem. Willie Kizart's guitar amp had been damaged when it fell off the top of the car and was emitting static and fuzz. 'When it fell,' Sam explains, 'that burst the speaker cone. We had no way of getting it fixed. I guess we probably could have hustled around some way, but it would have taken a couple of days, so we started playing around with the damn thing. I stuffed a little paper in there where the speaker cone was ruptured, and it sounded good. It sounded like a saxophone. And we decided to go ahead and record...'"