A Brief History of Electric Guitar Distortion

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00:00 Intro
00:43 Title Card
00:51 The Science
01:27 40’s Guitar
02:01 Junior Burrard
02:32 Goree Carter
02:57 Howlin’ Wolf
03:20 Rocket 88
04:12 Link Wray
04:49 The Kinks
05:11 Fuzzbox
06:31 Imitators
07:18 Grit Race
07:34 Conclusion

[@amoru1012]

One of the real pioneers of Distortion is Marty McFly

[@badmouserising9859]

...the Marty Mcfly Super Distortion Pedal by Boss 😂

[@MLBlue30]

He told me his name was Calvin Klein...

[@risenmyson]

Oh yes !! Hahaha!!

[@firecub5873]

ᗪAMoήrỮ ➈➆ indeed

[@nspj9rh8bdpvpuwu0vs8]

Calvin Klein*

[@inversedopposite6913]

The 6 dollar headphones i'm watching this video with have distortion included

[@erickminren]

Cold Kt haaaaahahahahahahahahhaa

[@fabianvanderelst9643]

That was very funny to read so unexpectedly 😂

[@sepes2801]

@@erickminren perfect

[@djskullboy2871]

Just get some Skullcandys. They’re quality at a low price. About $10 for some good quality bass

[@DedEternal]

_Laughs in deep-fried_

[@RickSanchez-of4om]

You know you have reached there when people start thinking your music can start gang fights.

[@tysonrinker5958]

They never mention this but it did start fights.

[@MLBlue30]

@@tysonrinker5958 Thats how you know its good.

[@ffjsb]

Everyone knows that it's rap music that starts gang fights...

[@tyde4610]

ffjsb ok boomer

[@ffjsb]

@@tyde4610 Obviously you don't get sarcasm....

[@candykanefpv98]

My cat was sitting on my lap when i started watching this, when you distorted your voice, he forcefully got up, walked away and puked. You made my cat puke with distortion.

[@damienrobertson4356]

Your cat is an audiophile.

[@ihatetheinternetitsawesome3578]

@@DoctorPatient Im sorry to bother you but are you high?

[@casesoutherland4175]

Must've been a puritan

[@j.d.snyder4466]

Hilarious!!! Made my morning!

[@leviaguonie1383]

The puketones..blahaha

[@soobaroo8253]

Distortion is probably one of the happiest accidents ever.

[@shawnconway5696]

In the words of Bob Ross no mistakes just happy accidents

[@robodog8435]

I’m the most unhappy accident

[@MehYam2112]

Like beer and wine.

[@cjsligojones5101]

Serendipitous.

[@addicted2tone349]

Truth!

[@DynamiteMustDie]

Rumble is a dead serious, it sounds ahead of its time, something like from the late 60's

[@raiffesilva4908]

Yeah the distortion is insane, I thought i was hearing something from the 70s.

[@utecastronoova863]

Apparently it is because according to others here this is a later version of the song ......10 years later. The original is much less distorted.

[@fododude]

@@utecastronoova863 Yep

[@philliplbeard1481]

@@utecastronoova863 Yeh, the drum sound, too, is a give-away--that isn't a "surf" era recording.

[@elimalinsky7069]

The version in this video is a 1969 re-recording of the instrumental track by Link Wray, which uses an actual pre-built distortion effect. The original 1958 version used the old technique of damaging the speaker or overdriving the tube in the amp. It still sounded heavy for its time but not nearly as much as the version heard here.

[@sethadams7122]

Soundwaves: It's over, distortion, I have the high ground Clipping: You underestimate my power!

[@TranceCore3]

Can't clip if you just stay in the red

[@baconbitz7937]

Don’t try it

[@Carbon2861996]

*Soundwaves jumps but Clipping clips Soundwaves legs and an arm off*

[@Someguy-ic3mu]

This is too good lol.

[@gunneddown2328]

1:14 *when that one friend with the Kinect mic joins the Xbox party*

[@funneneym9965]

More like Distortion + delay + reverb

[@prylosecorsomething3194]

I was that kid at one time

[@culturesex3803]

Flashback to 2011

[@247Lang]

😂😂😂

[@ultimadum7785]

GEN Z KIDS SPOTTED. (I'm gen z btw.)

[@batmandeltaforce]

I had a Maestro Distortion pedal. I learned that it sounded better when it was warm, so I put a christmas light in it and left it cracked on the back where the battery was, so the wire could come out. The bulb burnt out one day so I bought another Christmas light to put in it. That night on stage it quit. I didn't know that those lights came in different wattages and I had gotten a HOT one and it fried my pedal:) It sounded best just before it burnt up:) I was 14 yrs old and it was 1965:)

[@7viewerlogic670]

Cool story!

[@chrismoore7359]

+ StringGene Compared to all the tragic stories I've heard about the destructive potential of 'ol timey Christmas bulbs yours is the happiest one yet! I'm 51 and remember those fat glass bulbs well....

[@batmandeltaforce]

@@chrismoore7359 Funny, I didn't even think that most kids would not even know what a Christmas light bulb is:)

[@chrismoore7359]

+ StringGene My mom was terrified that a dried out Christmas tree was gonna burn the house down. I recall checking the water level in the stand seemly on the hour every hour then I suppose it was her watch after hours. My dad repeated over and over "relax honey, it'll be fine" as he sat in his easy chair watching TV... Those were the days!

[@kenfrazee2779]

@@chrismoore7359 sigh...yes they were.

[@w.williams2694]

“Chuck! Chuck, it’s Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Berry. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Great content as always.

[@BreyonnaMorgan18]

You're my density.

[@KaizerMan]

Ah, my cousin Marvin Berry. I would’ve forgot had you not specified the ‘Berry’ last name we share :D

[@eugeneaxe]

You might not be ready for that sound yet... But your kids are gonna love it.

[@ankitbhandari3354]

Great Scott

[@TALKINGtac0]

The Simpsons

[@0326Hambone]

Stuffing a tube amp full of newspapers, yeah that's not a fire hazard.

[@yearginclarke]

Good point

[@econecoff1725]

Sure, but one hell of an ending to a concert.

[@johnbgood52]

You stuffed the cabinet, not the head. ;-)

[@fuzz11111111]

Especially when it's a tube amp built in the 50's, the safety of many amps was already questionable.

[@avedic]

Rumble _still_ sounds mean to this day. I can't imagine how scary it must have sounded to old people back in the day lol. Think about it. Imagine some 70 year old hearing _that_ song. A person born in the 1800s, who grew up hearing his parents talk about the Civil War....hearing THAT song. I've always loved how music is SO capable of.....scaring people. Mere sounds, when played just so, can literally _scare_ people. I fucking love that about music. I still remember the first time I heard a song that actually scared me. Oddly enough it was a Michael Jackson song...the song "Why You Wanna Trip On Me" from the Dangerous album. I must have been around 8 years old....and something about his vocal delivery, the gritty aggressiveness of it, the angular rhythms....it just really scared me lol. But in a titillating sort of way. I found it both kinda terrifying...but also very alluring. To this day, I still look for that in music. I know a song is really good if it freaks me out a bit...while also intriguing and mesmerizing me.

[@krabuh]

IKR?? when you listen to how thin the distortion on "you really got me going now" sounds versus how massive it sounds on "Rumble" it's fucking incredible

[@MarkTiarra]

Exactly!

[@cloroxbleach115]

listen to death metal or black metal

[@EvelynSucksAtLife]

@@cloroxbleach115 Im a black metal fan but op is talking about how it still sounds mean even tho its very old and back then it sounded very evil

[@cloroxbleach115]

@@EvelynSucksAtLife I know maybe he can get scared of the music

[@godsfruit-official2555]

1940’s dirt tone is still cleaner than my clean sound damn

[@kirkwahmmet8406]

God's Fruit - Official lol

[@OscarASevilla]

😂😂😂😂😂 Awww

[@pstrokeslibsarctic]

Wtf solid state clean is clean as fuck now aday

[@pstrokeslibsarctic]

James Wever yea his clean is like overdrive + tube cranked

[@fposmith]

If you want perfection on both, buy a vintage Magnatone amp.

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

Back then a gangfight was called having a "rumble"

[@d_byrd]

Love me some Link Wray.

[@nomine4027]

The Sharks and the Jets have to rumble to an appropriate soundtrack

[@OriginalKingRichTv]

nomine * 🤣🤣😂😂🤣😭 man if I was back then I’d fúčk them up

[@sockswithsamdals]

FYI if your name is pony boy do not get In one you will get fucked up

[@arfansthename]

Yes grandpa now let's get to your bed

[@jacpod2046]

For some reason I found it unreasonably funny when he said "This was a bad time to be a speaker cone"

[@paulh9586]

Yes sort of like "I guess I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines"

[@highonimmi]

Stop sniffing glue

[@nateds7326]

"they thought it would insite gang riots" *sounds like a rolling stones jam session*

[@asaself7167]

Or a GNR concert

[@dreamywtf]

5:34 is probably the best bass tone I've heard imo. Sounds so fkn good

[@casesoutherland4175]

Almost makes me want to buy a Fender bass VI, if I can find a left-handed one.

[@ultimadum7785]

go listen to heartbreaker's bass line isolated. It will change your life. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIavmKR6eqmVn7s

[@wornstrat5517]

My favourite bass tone is definitely song 2 by blur

[@goodun2974]

​@@casesoutherland4175, A cheaper option would be to look for a Danelectro 6 string bass, which is actually a baritone guitar. By the way, John Entwhistle used a Danelectro bass for My Generation!

[@manalad8928]

5:34. Origins of stoner metal. Lol.

[@dylanwalton2597]

at first i thought u were being corny. then i loled

[@siriplaydopethrone8973]

Electric wizard tier fuzz lol

[@BixbiteBungo]

Shit went from country to sludge in a flash

[@sextuspompeius1266]

Antifadouche

[@adintyaannasaidhiakharisma5202]

@@BixbiteBungo xD good ones

[@gchampi2]

No mention of Charlie Christian, who was almost certainly the actual originator of distorted guitar, back in the mid 1930s. He was playing the embryonic electric guitar in jazz bands, where he had to keep up volumewise with brass instruments. As the amps of the time were limited to maybe 10-15W, and he was soloing, he had to be running his amp pretty much flat out just to be heard. There are live recordings dating back to 1939 of Christian soloing, and while his tone isn't as distorted as many of those who followed, it is by no means "clean".

[@user-ms8km7lh1l]

i agree that it's kinda weird that they showed a pic of sister rosetta tharpe without even talking about her. she's definitely an unsung god in the history of rock n roll for obvious reasons

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

@Marvin Bennett Everyone watched her. Why was there a British invasion? She played in an unused train station in Manchester in early 1960's and every guitarist was watching and learning from the master.

[@auntjenifer7774]

Maybe she was playing the most powerful guitar that really overdrives the amplifier. ?

[@rustyjames2202]

Not weird at all just the regular practice.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

"she's definitely an unsung god in the history of rock n roll" She was a great gospel musician who didn't participate in the invention of rock and roll.

[@wannarewind2893]

Bo Diddley too.. even Tom Petty credits Diddley as "elvis' daddy"

[@FrankDeMarco]

I've had a "distorted" understanding of this for years. Thanks for clarifying with another excellent video.

[@jimjamjerry]

Do you happen to have a relation to Mac DeMarco?

[@FrankDeMarco]

Nope, no musical relatives at all.

[@SuperSoFlow]

"A bad time to be a speaker cone" 🔊 Lol

[@DibIrken]

I snorted a bit. Hahaha. *oink* 😅😅😅

[@bobthebear1246]

R.I.P. speaker cone

[@LASR71]

"Have you heard about the EMO speaker cone? These fuckers cut themselves to sound...distorted".

[@himanshuhingwe7356]

A young man named Jimmy Hendrix picked up one of these and used it on his band's debut album. When Are You Experienced opened with the psychedelic distortion of Purple Haze.. there was no turning back...🔥🔥🔥

[@QJ89]

@7:07: Ladies & Gentlemen, Jimi's 'O' Face!

[@MadmanDS]

If you are interested, then research the greek bouzouki player Manolis Xiotis, he was a great inspiration for Hendrix, whom he considered the best player in the world at that time.

[@samuellarsen6044]

When you said "length of soundwave" at 1:00 , you meant amplitude of soundwave. Length would be the pitch of the wave.

[@fckcrustpunx1258]

Samuel Larsen I’m watching this and realizing this dude is kinda dumb

[@djskullboy2871]

Irfan Spirtovic jealousy of knowledge lol

[@ultimadum7785]

I think he was referring to the visual aspect of the soundwave. Which is a much easier way to explain to people that dont know what clipping is.

[@user-fr6qn9xl9e]

"This is crazy, Dewey. Ain't nobody gonna wanna listen to music like this. You're standing there playing as fast as you can singing like some sort of a punk."

[@SentientHoodii]

Is this from something?

[@justuslimpright2388]

@@SentientHoodii it's from "Walk Hard," I suggest you watch it if you like comedy, John C Reilly, or music

[@JaegerSuz]

@@SentientHoodii yes from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

[@davymag3476]

Don’t you dare try to stifle me

[@samk418]

Get outta here dewey, you dont want no part of this shit

[@JawTooth]

I love the distorted sounds that Tony Iommi makes for sabbath

[@hedgehog1965uk]

To get that sound, you gotta have the tips of a couple of your fingers on your fretting hand chopped off and replaced with prosthetics...seriously.

[@richardmills5326]

Jaw Tooth treble booster into laney

[@richieworrell]

I don't care what anyone says, the riff from Into the Void is the definition of "Heavy" in my opinion.

[@romajikaiser8450]

I see we share the same opinion

[@jeffreyp1855]

@@richieworrell , Badass riff. Weirdly enough, I'm an old fart of 48 but didn't get into Sabbath until after I was introduced to Candlemass at about 17 years of age. I loved Candlemass and when I found out they were heavily inspired by Sabbath, I got into them, a lot! I was already a fan of Ozzy and Randy Rhodes, Yngwie, Metalicca Mega-Dave and Slayer but just didn't hear a lot of Sabbath. One of the grandfathers of metal! One of my favorites is "Supernaut". Love the heavy, bluesy riffs in that song!

[@jacobchaffin2663]

Me: almost asleep Polyphonic: CrAnK uP mY VoIcE OvEr LiKe ThIs!!

[@desu38]

Electric guitar distortion is the original deep fried meme, change my mind. ☕

[@Roxanneredpanda]

Except it's way cooler than deep fried memes

[@TheInfamousLegend27]

@@Roxanneredpanda true

[@johnlemon8689]

Deep fried guitar tone

[@Juan6Meses]

Glad to see you demystify the fact the kinks weren't the creators of distortion.

[@RudolfZ]

They definitly brought it mainstream.

[@hanawana]

Rudolf Zlopasa hehe I’m down the road from their recording studio!!

[@maxbobness]

I think the claim isn't that he invented distortion, but that he "invented" hard rock/metal with the distorted power chords that (over)drive You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, I Need You, etc. The distortion is a key factor of course, but the power chords are the key in his case. That was my understanding anyway.

[@kriscaprani1108]

Far from the creators, but one of the first bands to emphasise the distorted guitar in terms of composition - of equal importance to the main vocals.

[@thomasdupont7186]

"Glad to see you demystify the fact the kinks weren't the creators of distortion." what ?

[@JC19021]

Wow Link Wray was ahead of his time.

[@mfrican1127]

They didn't use the actual recording of "Rumble", the overdrive is FAR less distorted in the original recording.

[@greglapointe1311]

You can hear the distortion throughout the song, also some heavy reverb. He used a lot of distortion on other songs and played some wild lead guitar, especially for that late fifties early '60's time period

[@mfrican1127]

Greg LaPointe Eeeeee. I hate being this guy, but at the end of the original track he actually employed the heavy use of the tremolo effect that was available in most guitar amps in the 1950s, reverb was being used the entire track. And yes, he did use much more distortion and effects during those periods, but I just don't like the fact that the video used a recording that sounded much more distorted and was not the original to prove a point. It's misleading. The video used original recordings for other examples, as far as I can tell, so why not use the original of "Rumble"? It is so easy to access.

[@fezzes428]

yea its sounds like sabbath

[@talibnunnally1531]

@@mfrican1127 "eet gayts moore in tainse"-Jimmy Paige

[@GTX1123]

More than any other song, Link Wray's "The Rumble" is THE SONG that influenced British guitar greats to dime up their Marshalls and change history. The story behind Link Ray's "The Rumble" is eerily similar to the sock hop scene in "Back to the Future" when the kids go nuts over Marty McFly and the "Starlighters" introduction of "Johnny B Good". Link and the Wraymen were at a sock hop in Fredericksburg VA in 1957-58 when Link's bandmates wanted to play "The Stroll" but Link didn't know it. They started to play it so Link walked over to his little combo amp and cranked the volume all the way up while someone grabbed a vocal mic and held it up to his amp while Link began power chording what became "The Rumble". The kids at the sock hop went NUTS and kept demanding they play it, so they played over and over. It was eventually recorded in the studio where Link poked holes in his speaker to emulate the dist he got from the amp overwhelming the PA system via a vocal mic. That recording eventually made its way to England where very young aspiring guitarists Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton etc all heard it, mixed it in with their American Blues obsession and voila, the genre of late 60's heavy blues rock was born. They have all said that more than any other song, "The Rumble" was THE SONG that influenced the loud, power chording heavy side of rock that became mainstream in the 60's.

[@spottedsaint957]

I was fortunate enough to have caught a Link Wray show by accident at a local nightclub years ago just before he died. He put on a great show and he was one of best guitarists ever. His style was all business. Simple ,nothing fancy, raw and loud. The way rock n roll should be. Great video! 👍

[@connorpark2744]

That Marty Robbins Example was really cool. The Beatles Also used a Fuzz Bass on Harrison's "Think For Yourself" McCartney played a normal bass and then a fuzz bass to act as the lead instrument

[@TheGamingEffect100]

Connor Park Good example. I remember when I used to play it as a kid I didn’t have a fuzz pedal, so I would turn the volume up until it had a very fuzzy/distorted sound to it

[@Dad-Gad]

Most overrated band ever .

[@TheGamingEffect100]

Rob Phillips so?

[@78deathface]

That Marty Robbins track is Heavy AF!

[@stevendorie7414]

Hell yeah It is

[@StamfordBridge]

78deathface Yeah, I’m amazed I haven’t heard it before. Gotta track it down.

[@juliegoldman6778]

here's more of that in action: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3W4n3d4pr-mmrM

[@themightymcb7310]

Marty Robbins is awesome, yeah. Single best country artist of all time

[@jackstrawfromwichita6168]

*T H I S M A K E S M Y I R O N T H E B I G I R O N*

[@bassblaster505]

"Vacuum tubes would compress the sound waves so that they wouldn't break" ehhhhh i dont think thats how audio clipping in audio circuits work

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

Wait why not? I dont know anything about this stuff. How else would the sound be achieved?

[@yearginclarke]

It was more of a laymen's way of putting it so everyone can understand it.

[@donrutter6765]

Than you would be incorrect, especially in the rectifier tube. When you chop off the edges of the wavelegnth that *is* compression.

[@patrickm.4310]

Distortion is limting a signals amplitude. Basically as shown in the animation but with more complex signals than sine waves. Doing so adds overtones to the original signal. The mathematical theory of signal analysis is rather complex, but if u wanna develop a basic understanding of how and why this is, look up foirier transformation.

[@patrickm.4310]

It also means that you compress the signal, as limting is the highest form of compression. However distortion means not only limting the sinal. This is just one of many forms of distorting a signal/creating overtones. Distortion happens nowadays in the electrical domain, where there is no soundwaves, but voltage. Distortion circuits can be quite simple or rather complex, depends on how you want the result to be. By damgeing a cone you can prevent it from converting an undistorted electrical signal to sound signal proerly thus make it create overtones.

[@mysneaker8234]

3:43 Today: Broken Amp - buy a new one Back then: Broken Amp - stuff newspaper in it

[@johnlemon8689]

My shitty amp got broken I didn’t buy a new one

[@marinewelsh9927]

Brocken

[@elmud]

So glad someone put Junior Barnard on the map, what a hell of a guitar player!

[@jackbrown7146]

The video clip of him playing is from Wills' & co. playing "Goodbye Liza Jane". Kinda mundane as far as Bob Wills tunes go, but Junior throws down one hell of a solo.

[@billuminati3867]

Do a video on "_________" please!!!!

[@LittleLion93]

"_________" truly revolutioned music as we know!

[@PixelVarnox]

"_________" is my idol

[@Kiquecapo]

Whales?

[@remy7541]

Canada?

[@MapleMilk]

"_________"'s first album sucks though "-------------" has a much cleaner discography

[@peterptchronic9696]

I believe Hendrix's first album came with the instructions to the mixing and mastering engineers: "Distortion intentional. Do not correct."

[@goodun2974]

The who's Live at Leeds album, designed to look like a bootleg, had handwritten notes on the inner label which said "crackles OK ---- do not correct".

[@MH5tube]

feel like it's worth mentioning that fuzz and distortion aren't exactly the same

[@ayelmao1224]

Fuzz is a type of distortion, but not all distortion is fuzz

[@MH5tube]

@@ayelmao1224 but they came from fairly different places. Distortion is either an amp driving or a pedal mimicking that. On the other hand, fuzz has always been an effect

[@donrutter6765]

Because fuzz used a transistor (3 prong) which refeeds the signal back in, like a negative feedback loop in a tube), where distortion is just clipping the edge of the waveform.

[@j.d.snyder4466]

Thank you, Don Rutter, your reply was most helpful.

[@goodun2974]

The video talked about Keith Richard's use of a fuzz box for Satisfaction but didn't mention Street Fighting Man where a cheap portable tape recorder was being intentionally overdriven by an acoustic guitar, and used as a preamp/fuzz effect.

[@billmilligan7272]

Argh. There's a picture of Rosetta Tharpe but no mention? She was distorting guitar as early as 1944 that we have records of. It's out on youtube and sounds amazing. Also, Rocket 88 was 1949, not 1951, and while it was recorded as "Jackie Brenston", the band leadership and sound production was all Ike Turner. I know it's not PC to talk about Ike Turner these days but you have to give credit where it's due.

[@robertm3951]

It is tough to say what the 1st Rock & Roll song is, since the DJ who coined the term played mostly R & B and Jump Blues. The video mentions Rock Awhile by Goree Carter, which was before Rocket 88

[@ant2011]

I also wondered the same the thing. I'm glad a photo was added at least .

[@Adrian-ne1qn]

Bill Milligan dude thanks for making this comment, I knew that there was a lady who was in rock n roll back I like the 49’s but I had forgotten her name.

[@samuelL.mackin]

Rosetta is definitely the creator of the sound but the very first rock n roll song played on the radio is Rocket 88.

[@SlashManEXE]

@@robertm3951 If you're going by the story of Alan Freed coining the term, the song that was first dubbed "rock and roll" was Rock the Joint by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen

[@21mph12]

I fully expected the knob at 1:38 to have an 11 on it.

[@InventorZahran]

In my life, everything goes up to eleven!

[@ursafan40]

My Fender Blues Junior goes to 12.

[@numerousattention103]

The Beatles had the distortion effect on songs like Cry For A Shadow and My Bonnie in 1961 and Slow Down in 1964.

[@bobbob24able]

Absolutely love this channel. Glad you have sponsorships, you make incredibly high quality content. Thanks for all the effort you put into these

[@anubhavpramanik8097]

"A guitarist by the name of Keith Richards" "A young man named Jimi Hendrix"

[@smallbeans702]

"An obscure band called The Beatles"

[@gabriel77196]

There was a time in human history where these quotes made perfect sense. "I saw this band playing that had a hyperactive dwarf guitarrist on a school outfit, really strange and outputting, i dont think they'll go far...... also what the fuck were they thinking when they thought naming themselves after electricity currents was a good idea" - someone probably have said that back in the day

[@blackphoenix8932]

Tis a bit cringe.

[@DMSProduktions]

Yes but the underground GAY scene was HIP to the name! ;o)

[@sipenarekbecha7193]

@@gabriel77196?

[@apexone5502]

I wish you would've mentioned Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock and Roll, since you had her picture up during the segment where you mentioned that nobody knows who started using distortion.

[@Sthunderrocker]

I second this. Wtf!

[@Missjunebugfreak]

Exactly. She's rarely talked about and yet she was so influential as a guitarist.

[@andyledger2307]

Amen to that. Also, a piece on distortion without mentioning The Godfather of Loud, Jim Marshall?

[@DougGrinbergs]

5:34 that bass distortion is so unique!

[@epierofkindoms]

i like how he just name drops so many legends as if they were mere mortals

[@RudyAyoub]

High quality content. Memes aside tho I mean it

[@TheMorbidAsshole]

We need more memes

[@fvcostanzo]

Really?

[@nicememe3793]

TheMorbidAsshole NO

[@zachbiggs8537]

Dude im legit finding god everywhere

[@cellblocknine5385]

I don’t get it, what do memes have to do with the content of this video?

[@charliefoxtrot3980]

Link Wray: The John Wick of guitarists.

[@anthonyfergerson3444]

Niceeeee

[@user-fr6qn9xl9e]

With a fookin' pencil

[@j.d.snyder4466]

Super cool job. Thanks for putting together the various strands into a neat package.

[@erzsebetnaftalin5987]

Seriously, your channel IS one of the greatest on KZbin! Bloody brilliant videos.

[@edthesecond]

I also like the story of Jeff Beck hooking a wire coat hanger to his guitar and using it to short out the pickups.

[@chrispeterson9447]

I wish I could go back in time and play a modern metal song for people 😂 They would shit a brick to hear what all of this experimentation with distortion would lead to

[@daneguitarist1]

yo poly, im a fan now, got that like and subscribe, you gave me some serious good feelings from jamming to some great hits and talking about pedals, i love guitar pedals

[@TealScarab]

7:24 That’s Ritchie Blackmore in-case anyone’s wondering.

[@stscallop3254]

"Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet…but your kids are gonna love it." - Marty McFly

[@thewintereaglefly]

Now, I believe we need a video on bass guitars. We, bassists, are deeply misunderstood people.

[@spudvader]

Bass "players" aren't misunderstood, it's just that nobody wants to know about them lol

[@dancingcheeseproductions4127]

Spudvader so theyre misunderstood then

[@hugq14]

TheWinterEagle there’s probably a reason for it!!

[@kutsumiru]

go away bassist

[@StamfordBridge]

TheWinterEagle Is it true that bassists migrate thousands of miles each year to mate?

[@StayForTheFireworks]

Link Wray was absolutely ahead of his time, that sounded so modern. Great video!

[@389383]

That's cause it is a much later version.

[@Hypno_BPM]

“This was a really bad time to be a speaker cone” lol

[@DrumWild]

My Gibson Les Paul goes up to 11. Chapter 11.

[@DapperHesher]

Zzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnng!

[@antoniogoncalves8288]

Oh the brutality 🤣🤣🤣

[@ChallisVenstra]

“That’s one louder, isn’t it? That’s one more. You’ve got all of these blokes, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, where do you go from there?”

[@Riverdeepnwide]

DrumWild it's the latest craze. "The Henry"

[@josephstalin172]

Not cool man

[@Lurker1979]

Lets have a moment of silence for all the speakers that gave their lives to our music! :P

[@donrutter6765]

Most would be greenbacks since they were too underated for output watts.

[@BalloonRace]

I've always wondered about this. Thanks for making this video. Good job.

[@RetroPlus]

This is a fantastic video and definitely needed to be made, super interesting. I love it :)

[@edog4153]

No speaker cones were hurt during the process of this video.

[@daD3ATHBR1NG3R]

This video gave me like a dozen songs to add to my library that I just never knew the name of! Solid video!

[@SpeedyNoriega]

Marty Robbin's "Don't worry" bass solo sounds amazing

[@wjf1950]

I nearly fell off of the sofa, when I first heard The Kinks do All Day And All Of The Night! Still love that sound a half a century later. My Telecaster says it all!

[@hoborock007]

Spirit in the Sky. ............ is worth a mention

[@austint19]

hoborock007 came here to say this! Absolutely iconic. Such a rich tone.

[@Hevvvyyy]

All I want is a rickenbacker bass with distortion ...

[@TheProbewizard]

Stoner rock lover?

[@RhythmGrizz]

That's entirely possible. Not hard to achieve at all

[@samuelbeelen2877]

Lemmy :)

[@turbine3780]

@@TheProbewizard there's one here. Big muff and a rickenbacker

[@evgeniydragondog]

maybe motorhead

[@kriegsruf4586]

I love these videos. No bait, no filler. Good stuff

[@timothyhumphreys1231]

Very fun and informative video, loved watching it!

[@Jeefrs]

Auugghhhhh use the original version of Rumble please, that's a rerecording from like the 90s

[@brandonio_granger]

Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed that !

[@omarbell4579]

So that's why it sounded odd.

[@ImSoOld2007]

Was obviously just a fuzz pedal lol

[@Muzikman127]

FUCKING YES. The original is so goddamned powerful. This upset me a bit haha

[@milesparker557]

I was wondering why it sounded a bit weak

[@jacobjonesofmagna]

Why isn't this channel bigger? I've experienced nothing but enjoyment watching your videos.

[@anthonysclafani3963]

Jacob Jonesington because he actually cares about making quality videos and never clickbaits for views. Sad but true

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

Because he doesn´t talk about soundcloud rappers and shit like that which the masses love

[@Frst2nxt]

What an awesome video. So in depth.

[@spastikps4916]

Best music channel on KZbin. Thanks for another great lesson.

[@NealB123]

A related note on the history of the Les Paul. Introduced in 1952 as a jazz guitar, the LP was initially an epic failure because of its heavy weight. It was discontinued by Gibson in 1960. LP's could be picked up at second hand shops all over the US and UK for almost nothing. Around that time, a group of teen boys in England discovered that if you plug a Les Paul into a guitar amplifier and turn the volume all the way up to maximum and start playing American style Blues licks, pure magic happens. Gibson resumed production of the LP in 1968. The rest is history.

[@gatorbuilt]

The humbucker pick-ups made the LP sound what it is...Gibson held an early patent.

[@markcheetah4960]

@@gatorbuilt True! The early Les Paul's had P90s, didn't they?

[@thewhitemustang]

Gibson resumed production of the LP in 1968. And they never quite managed to make them right ever since. The rest is history. 😃

[@johnbgood52]

thewhitemustang They make them just fine. I owned a real '55 LP back in the day, and I've played a newer reissue. The major difference was that the reissue wasn't quite as dinged up as the real one. :-)

[@johnbgood52]

@@markcheetah4960 Yes, as did all Gibson electrics made before before 1957, when Seth Lover's "hum cancelling" pickup was introduced.

[@bathoryaria4127]

*OMG* You didn't mention The Sonics! ☹ They were stabbing holes in their amps way before The Kinks! Still; great viddy ✌❤

[@metalheadlazz]

Love Gestapo What do you mean way before The Kinks? Yea they formed 4 years before The Kinks but The Kinks released their album(which featured that razor-torn amp) in 1964 when The Sonics released their first album in 1965. People heard The Kinks first,The Kinks started it.

[@sinjinbeatbox]

lol. sonics were doing harder shit in 1964 than the kinks ever ended up doing. check this out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2HEk4CwfN6fo8k

[@ryanjones9289]

Copied Link Wray

[@chrismoore7359]

+ I Kill Everything I Fuck I swear to Lilith I've search my whole life for a woman like You! And yes, I do have a death wish...

[@bryandeacon9269]

Link Wray's Rumble said "SPREAD EAGLE CROSS THE BLOCK"

[@TommyG0605]

excellent description, awesome history.

[@razzledcroaker3678]

Do a video on the era of the rock instrumental. Artists like Duane Eddy, the Ventures, Bill Justus and Link Wray ruled the charts in the late 50s/early 60s and, yet, the genre is almost completely forgotten today.

[@andriealinsangao613]

And the Shadows!!!!

[@razzledcroaker3678]

@@andriealinsangao613 Ah, yes! I completely forgot about them! I must admit I've never gotten around to listenening to as much British instrumental rock as I have the American stuff.

[@andriealinsangao613]

Pretty cool, huh?

[@aakashk597]

A video on the genius of John Paul Jones perhaps in the future, please. The guy played bass with his feet while playing the triple neck guitar, I mean come on. He deserves massive recognition for he infused colours into Led Zeppelin's music.

[@ddubrul]

Agreed. Page gets a lot of credit for the riffs and melodies that JPJ created.

[@karlmahlmann]

Hey, great job. The guitar sounds of the Kinks, Stones and Hendrix were, indeed, major milestone in the 60's. And I remember when every garage band in town was trying to get that sound. Before fuzz boxes showed up at the local music store We used a another amplifier and ran it's speaker output into the input of the main amp. That over-drove the signal just fine.

[@stevemuzak8526]

Link Wray's guitar tone is incredible. Still impressive to this day.

[@SimonRobinson137]

This is an absolutely excellent video - so much to learn especially pre-1960 - cheers.

[@TheRocknrolla12]

Awesome episode....really appreciate history lesson on beauty of an overdriven guitar sound

[@vogun52]

Thanks, an informative bite sized chunk of goodness for the layman, that gave me some new guys to check out as well. Nice one.

[@hanschitzlinger3676]

That was really good. I wasn’t expecting to like this video as much as I did.

[@mysteriousDSF]

4:20 Link Wray is the guy y'all are looking for. The first one with distortion, not just mild overdrive.

[@perhir01]

@1:00 it's not the length (I assume you mean wavelength) that is the limiting factor, it is the amplitude of the waveform that causes clipping. Unless you're talking about the length of the curve itself, but that is rarely done when dealing with the math and physics that you're talking about. Edit; timestamp

[@ectrl]

I love these videos. You should have Spotify playlists for each video.

[@jav2531]

Awesome and informative! Who could dislike this?

[@scotia7326]

One of the best uses of distortion on electric guitar was The Beatles “Revolution” single, that opening gives me chills every time.

[@fvcostanzo]

Even better -- that roaring single chord Lennon hammered at the end of "Everybody's Got Something to Hide 'Cept Me and My Monkey". That Epiphone Casino sound became classic.

[@andriealinsangao613]

True!!!!

[@Justin-yc1ig]

Scotia’s Channel that and norm greenbaum's "spirit in the sky".

[@Mike-mo5yy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJCre6qZgNqcgdU 1954

[@brianbullivant4753]

also many neil young songs.

[@Powertuber1000]

"Back then they used vacuum tube amplifiers?" That is the gold standard for today's amplifiers too.

[@BETTER.ART.]

Only tube amps.

[@jaymanier7286]

Digitized distortion is for noobs. Tubes are where its at.

[@BETTER.ART.]

While I'm a fan of tube amps, I have to disagree with you, because thats something very narrow to say.

[@adamzebrowski1459]

i had to chuckle when I heard him say that also

[@theothertonydutch]

DS2 on a transistor amp isn't digitized and can still sound dope as fuck. Schmuck.

[@jamesallen5591]

Great video! I appreciate the history.

[@peteralbert9805]

"...has a limit of the length of the soundwaves it can put out." Though this sentence is true, I'm sure you were thinking of the amplitude of the soundwaves at particular gain stages just like the animation shows.

[@YoniIsrael]

can you please do a video about the harmonic of Simon and Garfunkel

[@andrewwagner9901]

Yoni The K His favorite song is Scarborough Fair/Canticle so I’m sure he will do one soon

[@GiuliaViannas]

yes please!!!!

[@LordPadriac]

Please. For the sake of all good music let that crap fest lie in the past where it belongs being slowly forgotten with the tracks gaining inches of dust, untouched and unloved, in the back closets of closed down radio stations.

[@JudgeLazar]

You should talk about Tony Iommi. I don't mean the "Paranoid" album Tony Iommi. I mean the real deep cut amazing songs never played on the radio Tony Iommi.

[@metalman2125]

Any Tony Iommi is good Tony Iommi ;)

[@tommyboy7086]

Where can I find these songs not on the radio? Just sabbath? Earth?

[@raulperez2308]

INTO THE VOID

[@thorthunderlungs5171]

Snowblind.

[@DragonSlayer-kn2xe]

National Acrobat

[@TWayneD1020]

Thank you so much for this information !!!

[@stevenartascos2918]

Great video, Never knew how distortion got started ...... Rock on fuzz face!!