{"id":1808,"date":"2008-11-19T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-19T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:27:47","slug":"unexpected-fuzz-guitar-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unexpected-fuzz-guitar-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Fuzz Guitar and Other Subtle, Shit-Hot Fills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FL6HK1YP9pQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;m a sucker for <strong>fuzz guitar and other subtly shit-hot leads<\/strong>! There are plenty of underwritten songs and even entire albums (eg, The Pretty Things&#8217; <em>SF Sorrow<\/em>) that I otherwise might not give the time of day if not for the soul-stirring fuzztone guitar parts. There are other songs, like <strong>The Blues Project<\/strong>&#8216;s version of &#8220;Back Door Man,&#8221; that are loaded with subtly shit-hot leads that will forever be burned in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, on the way to a soccer game, <strong>Edwin Starr&#8217;s &#8220;War&#8221;<\/strong> came on the radio, and I cranked it up for my son and his friend. I LOVED this song since I was a little kid, but I hadn&#8217;t heard it for years. I was pleasantly surprised by the subtle, shit-hot fuzz guitar fills on the choruses, fills that seemed to be a precurssor to the fills <strong>The Isley Brothers<\/strong> would put in their early &#8217;70s hits. I&#8217;d forgotten about them and how much they added. <\/p>\n<p>Then I thought about the time many moons ago, when <strong>Townsman Andyr<\/strong> pointed out to me maybe the most unexpected use of fuzztone and subtle, shit-hot fills: those that appear in the distance midway through <strong>Simon and Garfunkle<\/strong>&#8216;s thoughtful <strong>&#8220;Sounds of Silence.&#8221;<\/strong> The song was forever improved for me, and the consciousness of these fills made me aware of Paul Simon&#8217;s penchant for working subtle, shit-hot fuzztone leads into his seemingly placcid music. Think about the guitar fill that follows the doobie-smokin&#8217; line in <strong>&#8220;Late in the Evening.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not alone in my appreciation for fuzztone and shit-hot leads. I&#8217;m <em>pretty sure<\/em> I&#8217;m not alone in holding some subtly shit-hot examples of these qualities in mind. <em>What are your favorite uses of unexpected fuzz guitar and other subtle, shit-hot fills?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for fuzz guitar and other subtly shit-hot leads! There are plenty of underwritten songs and even entire albums (eg, The Pretty Things&#8217; SF Sorrow) that I otherwise might not give the time of day if not for the soul-stirring fuzztone guitar parts. There are other songs, like The Blues Project&#8216;s version of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unexpected-fuzz-guitar-parts\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}