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The Kinks: How Dave Davies’ Slashed Amp Created Rock Distortion

When it comes to breakout singles, they don’t get much better than “You Really Got Me.” The 1964 track didn’t just put the Kinks on the map; it changed the rock n’ roll landscape with its incendiary guitar tone. “You Really Got Me” brought distorted guitar to the masses. It’s the genesis of all...
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My son stole a meat thermometer from my kitchen when he was 3.....stabbed it right in the front of my 1960A cab. Put a perfectly round puncture wound in my upper left speaker cone. That was a fun day.


I never fixed it. It's still there. That's my secret ingredient for muh toanz. No s#it. True story.
 
mcblink said:
My son stole a meat thermometer from my kitchen when he was 3.....stabbed it right in the front of my 1960A cab. Put a perfectly round puncture wound in my upper left speaker cone. That was a fun day.


I never fixed it. It's still there. That's my secret ingredient for muh toanz. No s#it. True story.
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Secret Sauce ala Jr ---- awesome
 
mcblink said:
My son stole a meat thermometer from my kitchen when he was 3.....stabbed it right in the front of my 1960A cab. Put a perfectly round puncture wound in my upper left speaker cone. That was a fun day.


I never fixed it. It's still there. That's my secret ingredient for muh toanz. No s#it. True story.
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Good thing it wasn’t a rectal thermometer. That would be some dangerously funky secret sauce. And maybe crappy tones too.
 
Inversely, two examples of the earliest known distortion recordings: Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually Ike Turner and The Kings of Rhythm) in 1951 and Rumble by Link Wray and the Wraymen in 1958 used destroyed speakers: both accidentally and intentionally.

Guitarist Willie Kizart had his Seranola amp destroyed along Highway 61 from Clarksdale, Mississippi to the Memphis Recording Service ( later becoming the legendary Sun Studios) in Memphis, Tennessee when it fell out of the car. The cone was badly destroyed and the speaker pierced, so having no backup, producer Sam Phillips stuffed newspapers into it and arguably the first known recording of early distortion was born FB_IMG_1645157077917.jpg

7 years later, guitarist Link Wray had began experimenting with new sounds and wanted something unheard of at the time: distorted tremolo and controlled feedback. He took a pencil to the 12" speaker of his Multivox Premier 71 amplifier ( leaving the two 3" tweeters intact) and then dimed it out including the internal tremolo, added a vocal mic in the front of it and created the first modern day distortion recording ever.

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mcblink said:
My son stole a meat thermometer from my kitchen when he was 3.....stabbed it right in the front of my 1960A cab. Put a perfectly round puncture wound in my upper left speaker cone. That was a fun day.


I never fixed it. It's still there. That's my secret ingredient for muh toanz. No s#it. True story.
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I prefer to give my speaker cones a nice warm beer bath.
That's the one true source of vintage tone.
If the beer is cold, you can't taste it.
 
mcblink said:
My son stole a meat thermometer from my kitchen when he was 3.....stabbed it right in the front of my 1960A cab. Put a perfectly round puncture wound in my upper left speaker cone. That was a fun day.


I never fixed it. It's still there. That's my secret ingredient for muh toanz. No s#it. True story.
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Bill him at his first address when he moves out.
 
Seriously dudes lol


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No lie, that small hole right there.... .that's the sound of the thundering gods kerranging our necks.

My son is now 9, he doesn't even know what he's done for me; someday this speaker will be his.

The last 6 years have been sonic bliss.

If you haven't tried already, stab your speakers with a meat thermometer today!!!

:flash:
 
My ears hear "distortion" as a very negative thing. I'm not certain that most can distinguish it. I've heard some dudes running a 100 watt Plexi into a cabinet of Greenbacks or Creambacks and bragging about the "break up," which sounds like absolute sonic feces.

I've killed a bunch of speakers before I found out the most "revered" models can't take the beating I was dishing out.

My ear gravitates toward clarity. The only "distortion" (actually gain) that I want to hear is what the amp can generate, so I need a speaker that can run at full stage volume with absolute clarity and withstand high resonance settings.

I've found only one speaker that can do this.

The 12" Celestion Copperback Neodymium 250 Watt.
 
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