FUZZ WAS THE FUTURE PART FOUR: NOW BUT NOT YET

Over the past few months, we’ve ploughed through the history of the guitar, and it’s been a wild ride. We’ve jammed with cavemen in 500BC, gone kite-flying with Benjamin Franklin, and embarked on a cross-country road trip with Mark Twain. You even joined me in a sound-treated anechoic chamber in Japan. Most recently, we stood alongside studio engineer Glenn Snoddy while he made the historychanging decision to leave in the fuzz on a 1961 country and western hit. It’s all led to this.

Now, I know that I promised last time that I’d wrap this up in the next article – and, in my defence, I 100 per cent intended to. That said, this home stretch is just too important to squeeze into one column. It needs two, and since this is a monthly column, let’s make the most of it.

If you haven’t been following my tour through guitar’s unlikely sonic evolution so far, I’d suggest you head to and brush up on the first three articles in this series before continuing. It won’t take long, and more sense if you do.