Another article at Gibson.com talks more in detail about "fuzz milestones": http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/who-called-the-fuzz-714.aspx ht

Another article at Gibson.com talks more in detail about "fuzz milestones": http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/who-called-the-fuzz-714.aspx http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/who-cal... The distortion in "Don't Worry" was a faulty preamp on the console, probably tube-based since the first transistor-based mixing board was made in 1964. The distorted guitar in the Beatles' "Revolution" was also an overdriven mixing board, but theirs was solid state IIRC. But if you like country-flavored fuzz, WFMU has you covered with a retrospective: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/11/country-fuzz-sp.html http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/11/country-fuzz-sp.html