The First Wah Pedal Demo Ever Made! (1967)

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  • In this week's episode, we hear the first demo record for the Vox Wah Wah pedal. Coincidentally, we'll also discuss how Del Casher and Brad Plunkett invented the wah wah pedal, but a trumpet player accidentally got all the credit.
    *Interview clips with Del Casher taken from our interview with him at his home in 2019.
    www.thejhsshow.com/
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    World's First Pedal Demo Episode:
    • The First Pedal Demo E...
    Pedals the Musical:
    • Guitar Pedals - A Hist...
    The Electric Prunes - Vox Wah Wah Commercial:
    • The Electric Prunes - ...
    Record Time:
    The Electric Prunes:
    Underground
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    I Had too Much to Drink Last Night
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    Mass in F Minor
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    Josh’s record player is by U-Turn Audio:
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  • @davidrewit
    @davidrewit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    Dude doing the pitch at Vox: "I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it."

  • @mattbrillhart2922
    @mattbrillhart2922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +558

    Cliff Burton: “Bass solo, take one...”

    • @theyoganath3073
      @theyoganath3073 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Haha, my thoughts exactly.

    • @Ottophil
      @Ottophil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@theyoganath3073 literally everyones thoughts except josh. I wish he was a metalhead too

    • @stephenhackney6044
      @stephenhackney6044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Pulling Teeth.

    • @mattbrillhart2922
      @mattbrillhart2922 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I still use the first part of PT as a warm up to get my fingers moving. At the time, didnt realize it was wah. I just knew I wanted distortion on my bass. Ah...to be back in my shed in 1986...

    • @hedbngr18
      @hedbngr18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@stephenhackney6044 Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)

  • @andrewsnee
    @andrewsnee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    The genre is 60s TV rock. Whenever they had to represent a rock band on TV they used these older session guys and this is sort of what they thought rock sounded like.

    • @kiwanda88
      @kiwanda88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      One of the licks on that record sounded *exactly* like the guitar intro to the Three's Company theme song to me...

    • @ravenslaves
      @ravenslaves 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      You're closer to the truth than you may realize.
      A lot of those same studio musicians actually played on most of the classic rock records of the 60's and early 70's.

    • @robgonzo
      @robgonzo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I came down here to say this. I remember this sound on shows like the Munsters or the Beverly Hillbillies or Dragnet. Where ever they want some non copywritten "rock" sounds. I used to think it was called, "Mod". Guys in sport coats and sunglasses saying things like, "Daddy-0".

    • @soupforare
      @soupforare 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      def, library music 100%

    • @eti313
      @eti313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Exactly: jazz-trained session musician shows their disdain for rock by playing simplistic clichés.

  • @vladv5126
    @vladv5126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Kirk Hammett has entered the chat. Also, notice how on the demo disk they don't ask you to smash that like button and subscribe.

  • @stevejohnson6632
    @stevejohnson6632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +402

    My first wah experience: my dad yelling down to the basement "play Hendrix with it or throw it away!"

    • @notarealperson87
      @notarealperson87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      your dad sounds like a smart dude

    • @glenkepic3208
      @glenkepic3208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Voodoo Chile, Slight Return

    • @glenkepic3208
      @glenkepic3208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kid of 15. already gave up on Band sax.
      My Dad wanted me love it. three years of band.Just wanted to play guitar
      "That sounds like a bass". Sab, Give me a chance,,,
      Mexican Black Bird from ZZ a couple years later. "Hey that sounds good".

    • @glenkepic3208
      @glenkepic3208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Started out with power chords like Sab when i was 15 in '72. My Dad "That sounds like a bass. When you gonna learn some chords?" Give me a chance.
      Year or three later. and i 'm jamming with ZZ Tops "Mexican Blackbird', thru an amp.
      "Hey, that sounds good!''
      Meant alot.

    • @drebanto8031
      @drebanto8031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@glenkepic3208 always means good when pops recognizes “this cat can play, let alone this my cat”

  • @Tacosandcheeseburgers
    @Tacosandcheeseburgers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    That record sounds like every screen wipe edit from Austin Powers

  • @daverice2426
    @daverice2426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    That intro to "I Had Too Much To Dream..." TERRIFIED me as a 6 year-old; my older brother used it to chase me out of his groovy basement hippy den

  • @djcoolcliff
    @djcoolcliff 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video! My uncle is Melvin Ragin aka Wah Wah Watson! Let’s Get It On, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Car Wash countless other hit records!! RIP to Wah Wah Watson!

  • @lilybeejones
    @lilybeejones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +346

    N.I.B. by Black Sabbath??? That is like one of their best songs. Bass Wah.

  • @pvdmac
    @pvdmac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    JHS must bring out a cardboard disc demo of sounds for their next release

    • @daverice2426
      @daverice2426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I bet Third Man could hook that up

    • @blakeburress
      @blakeburress 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2/3 of the Hipster Trifecta

  • @Anichema
    @Anichema 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Cream used a wah pedal on "Tales of Brave Ulysses" which was the B side of the "Strange Brew" 45, and the song also appeared on their "Disraeli Gears" LP from 1967. So they must have been among the first to use it?
    And The Electric Prunes rock!

    • @TheSavagederek
      @TheSavagederek ปีที่แล้ว

      Both incredible songs, on an incredible record.

  • @ericolson326
    @ericolson326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Del Casher jamming on a new pedal with his drummer friend was the first episode of The JHS Show. If you look closely at the back of that cardboard record, you can see Josh in a group photo like the end of The Shining.

  • @booneh
    @booneh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    “Mommy, What’s A Funkadelic?” by Funkadelic has a great wah bass breakdown.

    • @christopherkennedy873
      @christopherkennedy873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This

    • @kennycube5126
      @kennycube5126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Son, It's a hamhock in your cornflakes :)

    • @booneh
      @booneh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kennycube5126 You’re thinking of “What Is Soul.” Soul is the ring around your bathtub.

    • @jorhay1
      @jorhay1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep

    • @dsam6990
      @dsam6990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey Booneh, Dont worry about the replies below I Testify they're Gamin' on ya! , bunch of Maggot Brainz

  • @robbirose7032
    @robbirose7032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I can't decide if I like the wah.
    I keep going back and forth on it.

    • @ChiefMiddleFinger
      @ChiefMiddleFinger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's warped, but I like it !

    • @fredstevens799
      @fredstevens799 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      just put yer foot down!

    • @richardclark.
      @richardclark. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh boy! I am stealing that one.

    • @TheRealcdawg22
      @TheRealcdawg22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had to read that twice to get it. Ha!

    • @TurquoiseIcy
      @TurquoiseIcy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good one, take your like and leave.

  • @ramonaHQ
    @ramonaHQ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    “My first thought is, that’s fairly annoying.”
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @niallmacdonald2710
    @niallmacdonald2710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very cool. The first demo I had heard of the Vox Wah Wah before was the Electric Prunes one. I didn't know Del was on it. The Prunes one made it onto a either a Pebbles compilation, or a Turds on Bum Ride compilation, I don't remember which. Both similar compilations mastered from forgotten 60's psychedelic vinyl and played in the Crypt club, London, in the 80s, where I first heard a lot of these kinds of records.

  • @gayvalds
    @gayvalds 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath is known for being one of the first few big bass players to use a wah

    • @newpinglegend9304
      @newpinglegend9304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah, that occurs on "Black Sabbath", that little bit of bass noodling that precedes "N.I.B". As the example that leaps to mind.
      Pretty sure it's titled, I can't haul in the title offhand. If I'm right.

    • @acedia_14
      @acedia_14 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@newpinglegend9304 It was titled "Bassically"

    • @newpinglegend9304
      @newpinglegend9304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@acedia_14 That was it.

    • @ltsmash1200
      @ltsmash1200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@acedia_14 I listened to that Sabbath record for years knowing it was called Basically, and one day I was listening to it on vinyl and thought, “they should have spelled it, ‘bassically,’” then I looked at the back and realized that they did. Never noticed it for YEARS.

    • @DarkVegetaman
      @DarkVegetaman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think he also used it on other tracks like Sign of the Southern Cross. At least that's how he played it live when Heaven and Hell was touring circa 2007.

  • @stinky789
    @stinky789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The wah/distortion portion of the demo felt like a King Gizzard song haha

  • @Globularmotif
    @Globularmotif ปีที่แล้ว +2

    King Crimson's Bassist John Wetton uses one very effectively on lots of their recordings. He's brill...

  • @rb032682
    @rb032682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hendrix's "Up from the Skies" was the ultimate wah demo.
    The bass player for Brian Auger had a Bass Wah Pedal. He used it very sparingly but it was very effective. I heard that at a concert in 2008 (2009?).

  • @brunobrockway
    @brunobrockway 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Bass wah: "From whom the bell tolls" intro!
    Anesthesia too, by the awesome Cliff!

    • @ericturcotte3131
      @ericturcotte3131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And don't forget about The Call of Ktulu!

  • @timhouston1638
    @timhouston1638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I'm not half way through this video, but f3elt the need to stop and say this is the best and most important video JHS has made. You are preserving history knowledge here and it's fascinating and funny at the same time.

  • @Schnooks33
    @Schnooks33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “Acid Surf Music” I’m DEAD 😂

  • @erikdmckenzie
    @erikdmckenzie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's crazy how even after 4o years that ad still was able to convince me to go and buy a wah today

  • @YuToobVideos
    @YuToobVideos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    Bass Wah= "Anesthesia"/"Pulling Teeth" Metallica🤘🔥

    • @seanskrobarczyk398
      @seanskrobarczyk398 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Found this list. Hiding it because I thought it was a stupid question
      Metallica - Seek & Destroy
      Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
      Metallica - Anaesthesia (Pulling Teeth)
      Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
      Pantera - Uplift
      Black Sabbath - Bassically (intro to NIB)
      Red Hot Chili Peppers - Coffee Shop

    • @Frijolero18
      @Frijolero18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I think that was a Morley Power Wah, to be nerdy about it

    • @JR-dd4ec
      @JR-dd4ec 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And the award for best use of wah with Bass goes to.....

  • @joybuzzer
    @joybuzzer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    I watched this 20 minutes ago and I still have that stupid Wah Wah song in my head. Thanks a lot, buddy.

  • @kevinseiler1592
    @kevinseiler1592 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Electric Prunes Mass in F Minor was actually the creation of producer extradrodinare, David Axlerod (NOT the politics guy of the same name). Axlerod, initially signed on as producer but basically took over the band and the album is pretty much his creation. The rest of the band hated it and quit one by one. The name 'Electric Prunes' was owned by the label and so they re-formed the band with completely different members. This is all documented in the wikipedia for the Electric Prunes. I highly recommend that you check out some of Axlerod's other stuff from the period, such as Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, and Earth Rot. These and other albums were frequently recorded by Axlerod with whatever session musicians were available to Axlerod at Capitol Records in Hollywood. We're talking Earl Palmer on drums, Carole Kaye on bass, Howard Roberts on guitar. Often huge classical string sections back these players up. The sessions were frequently short and the finished pieces are a credit to David Axlerod's vision and production skills. As you can tell, I'm a great fan. If you are shopping for records and you see 'Produced by David Axlerod' on the back, BUY THAT ALBUM! Axlerod was all over the place on Capitol's discography during the 60's to mid 70's- Jazz, Rock, Soul, Country. The one thing tying these records together is the awesome production.

  • @Stereostupid
    @Stereostupid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for allowing us to hear this rare piece of history!!

  • @LittrellKaden
    @LittrellKaden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    I think I’m most impressed by the fact that you could put a record on cardboard...

    • @BoHemphill
      @BoHemphill 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I think it was Post Cereals that had a collection of 4? records on the back of the back of the box in the 60's. I had the Johnny Cash single. I think it was Orange Blossom Special.

    • @DavideGuerri
      @DavideGuerri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      before the berlin wall was taken down they had bootleg vinyls copied on x-ray sheets, search for "russia x ray records"

    • @therugburnz
      @therugburnz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I remember a record on the back of a cereal box in '72 - 74. I think it was Sugar Crisp and the song was by the Jackson Five. It might have been the ABC123 song. My foggy memory thinks it coincided with the Jackson Five cartoon. Yes, I watched it and yes my sister was in love with little Michael Jackson. I just liked the groovy music.

    • @_-_Michael_-_
      @_-_Michael_-_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Its thin plastic that holds the music on carboard is just picture placed.

    • @timhouston1638
      @timhouston1638 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Guitar magazines (like Guitar Player) used to come with "cut-out" records stapled to the middle of the magazine, super thing plastic, they sounded horrible but they worked? Like getting a "demo" with your magazine. Different times. Now we just google whatever we want to know about.

  • @slydog7593
    @slydog7593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "Pre-Acid Surf" is the genre of music on the Wah-wah cardboard record.

  • @Digosaurus
    @Digosaurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Homies, this has gotta be one of the best episodes to date

  • @StarQueenEstrella
    @StarQueenEstrella 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The bass solo in “My Wave” by Soundgarden uses a wah-wah

    • @telsutton
      @telsutton 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great suggestion... find the surround mix!

  • @SwirlyWhirlyXYZ
    @SwirlyWhirlyXYZ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    First JHS Records release: deluxe expanded reissue of wah wah demo record with all 13 recorded demo tracks, pressed on deluxe heavy weight cardboard.

    • @JackGladstoneHolroyde
      @JackGladstoneHolroyde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      With a JHS sticker and a second record sticking out of the side at right angles.

    • @davedavid7061
      @davedavid7061 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's its own box

    • @marcuswilson007
      @marcuswilson007 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      180 gram cardboard

  • @whiskerbiscuit6674
    @whiskerbiscuit6674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    One hot minute Chili peppers song is Falling into grace
    Rage against the machine - Mic check, Born of ghosts, war within a breath. He actually uses two wahs at the same time with a board over them to control them same time.

    • @stecker06
      @stecker06 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Calm Like A Bomb, too! Timmy C apparently was really into his wah when Rage made The Battle of Los Angeles.

    • @creamydistortion
      @creamydistortion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always thought 'Falling Into Grace' was played with a vibrator (I'm serious, Dave Navarro used to hold a sex toy over the pickups, kind of like an e-bow)...

  • @whatspadethinks
    @whatspadethinks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Outstanding historical overview of the vaunted Vox Wah. There's no shortage of guitar channels on TH-cam but few are as entertaining, educational and overall enlightening as JHS's. Josh & the gang are laying it down for the homies in the guitar community and we all should be grateful.

  • @paulclaerhout6997
    @paulclaerhout6997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I met Del Casher a few years ago. I was leaving work and carrying my guitar. Del pulled up in an old Cadilac and stopped to chat with me. He had (still has?) a recording studio just down the street in Burbank.

  • @Al_Raune113
    @Al_Raune113 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    'Joy of a Toy' is a song by a British band called The Soft Machine that uses a bass played through a wah by Kevin Ayers. Both Soft Machine and Kevin Ayers' solo stuff are amazing, by the way.

    • @blakehoss6837
      @blakehoss6837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yessss. That record is so good.

    • @robbert3317
      @robbert3317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea, was looking for this comment! Mike Oldfield plays something that sounds like wah bass on Ayer's whatevershebringswesing as well. Ayer's must have been one of the first.

  • @GUSCRAWF0RD
    @GUSCRAWF0RD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    "what the 🤬 is wrong with my guitar"
    "🤬 This pickup is out of phase or something and I never noticed 🤬 I gotta take it apart again"
    "Did I touch my amp? Did I bump it? Is my amp broken? Are my tubes still biased?"
    Ohhhhh my wah is on

    • @ericturcotte3131
      @ericturcotte3131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My guitarist: "Man, your bass sounds wild tonight, I like it!"
      Me: "Sorry, I left my wah on."

    • @rootsradical
      @rootsradical 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And this is why I installed an LED on my Cry Baby. It happened too much.

    • @tomcoryell
      @tomcoryell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That has screwed me too many times!

    • @soundguy10
      @soundguy10 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rootsradical Michael Schenker made a career out of leaving it on

  • @noternunstoned
    @noternunstoned 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you can find the album, "end of the game" by Peter Green, lot's of Wah Wah, people
    really put it down, as Green was undergoing emotional and mental health issues.
    I am a Peter Green freak and looked past the endless jamming and noodling to try to make sense, and there's a lot there, I love most of it.
    PAG was a guitar genius and great singer/writer. RIP PAG and thanks for your great demos.

  • @ExplodingPsyche
    @ExplodingPsyche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The first song on The Electric Prunes Mass in F Minor (Kyrie Eleison) was used in the Mardi Gras scene in Easy Rider. The band by this time were a group of musicians put together by their manager, who owned the name, and none of the original members were in this group.

    • @pauldwyer
      @pauldwyer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not really. From Wikipedia: "When the existing band - singer James Lowe, guitarists Ken Williams and Mike Gannon, bassist Mark Tulin, and drummer Michael "Quint" Weakley - came to record the album, it became apparent that the complex arrangements largely outstripped the band's ability to perform them to the standards expected by Axelrod, or within the time set aside for recording. Although Lowe, Tulin (the only band member who could read music) and Weakley appeared on all the tracks, and Williams and Gannon also appeared on the first three tracks ("Kyrie Eleison", "Gloria" and "Credo"), the album was finished by studio musicians working with engineer Richie Podolor on guitar, and a Canadian group, the Collectors. The choral-style vocals were by Lowe, double-tracked. Hassinger was credited with producing the album."

    • @ExplodingPsyche
      @ExplodingPsyche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pauldwyer Also from the Wikipedia page: "Some later reissues of Mass in F Minor incorrectly credited a later incarnation of the band with recording the album." I guess wherever I read that, it stems from this error.

  • @GuitarGodgt
    @GuitarGodgt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I like how Josh mentioned Rage Against the Machine and can't think of a bass wah song...
    Calm like a bomb Josh!

    • @BaBaBaBenny
      @BaBaBaBenny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Was gonna make this EXACT comment, glad someone beat me to it. Pretty sure he's got the wah sandwiched between dirt pedals as well so it'd add to Joshes point about using a way with dirt.

  • @mannishboy1
    @mannishboy1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Bass wah on NIB by Black Sabbath. Kudos, Geezer!

  • @LPCustom3
    @LPCustom3 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Vox/Jennings factory was in Dartford, Kent, U.K. The Charring Cross Rd. store was the retail shop in mid London!! Del Casher's been a friend of mine for a couple of decades.. He's a really great guy!!

  • @knightyyz
    @knightyyz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the piece "I had too much to dream last night"!

  • @guitardude1230
    @guitardude1230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Bass Wah? Cliff Burton playing his "Pulling Teeth" bass solo from Kill Em All, Metallica's first album. Legendary!

  • @NerdGasims
    @NerdGasims 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    "(Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth" by Metallica with the late great Cliff Burton on bass. The prime example of a bass solo with a wah wah pedal.

  • @jimbo1957
    @jimbo1957 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I still have my copy of this cardboard record (and the rest of the rectangular sheet of which it was originally part). It was sent to me in about April 1967 by Jennings Musical Industries. There is no chance whatsoever that Jimi Hendrix or any other rock player could have been heard using a wah pedal before Del Casher made the record in February 1967. That is because the Vox Wah-Wah pedal was not released for sale until May 1967, at least not in the UK.
    I had the great fortune to meet Del Casher at Deke Dickerson's Guitar Geeks' Festival at Anaheim during NAMM week 2012. We got into conversation and I mentioned that I still have the record. Del was good enough to return the next night with a copy taken from the master tape and transferred to CD-R. No more clicks, pops, or surface noise. A real gentleman.
    By the way, the tune identified by Josh as (Neal Hefti's) theme from the "Batman" TV series was actually closer to "Wipeout" by The Surfaris, though just enough notes were changed that no composer royalties would have been due. The group's version had composer credits listed as "The Surfaris".

  • @randelj
    @randelj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I really appreciate your honesty when you talk about pedals, many of them your competitor's pedals. This episode is definite one of the best episodes ever! You didn't just show us a vintage pedal like you normally do but we were able to hear that bit of history first hand. Greetings from Sweden.

    • @TonesScones
      @TonesScones 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed, if anything its the reason i ended up buying a jhs 3 series chorus, needed a good, reliable, cheap chorus. I dont think ill ever take it off my board now lol

  • @3bandEQ
    @3bandEQ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I’m not worried about what genre it is, I just want it on Spotify.

  • @redielg
    @redielg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Bass wah? Bassically & NIB from back sabbath! Hello!

    • @gfunkk
      @gfunkk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      anasthesia (pulling teeth) anyone?

    • @redielg
      @redielg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gfunkk for whom the bell tolls. Orion. Primus.

    • @ragnadrabinowitz7629
      @ragnadrabinowitz7629 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      shaft anybody?!

    • @kporche2
      @kporche2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep first thing that popped into my head.

    • @reynoldsparrow834
      @reynoldsparrow834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jack Bruce with Cream.

  • @brettkeller8168
    @brettkeller8168 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Paul Jackson on Chameleon (1973), although he’s basically playing a guitar part on the upper frets of the bass while Herbie plays the bass line.

  • @boco1951
    @boco1951 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have one of your Vox wahs JHS it needs a little work but I am glad to have it!

  • @ericcooper5466
    @ericcooper5466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I believe the genre is in fact, “Cat Fight Surf Pop Rock”. Very short lived.

    • @HarryGuit
      @HarryGuit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cats have seven lives

    • @jfo3000
      @jfo3000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Check out Jennifer Batten's "Cat Fight" with whammy pedal. Now that's a real cat fight.

  • @hillx021hill3
    @hillx021hill3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The cardboard records were a thing in the 60s. The Post cereal company put records by bands like the Archies and the Jackson 5 on the back of Alphabits boxes.

    • @JD-vx8gr
      @JD-vx8gr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I vaguely recall the Guitar Player magazine had vinyl insert 45 disc's sometime in the early 70's.

    • @hillx021hill3
      @hillx021hill3 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JD-vx8gr And they were awesome! Fripp, Belew, Torn, Holdsworth, etc.

    • @creamydistortion
      @creamydistortion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My grandfather recorded a spoken message on q similar cheap disc when he was in WWII...

    • @jammer70s
      @jammer70s 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JD-vx8gr They called them "Soundpages"... they were the first place I ever heard Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, and Yngwie Malmsteen.

    • @johnwinward2421
      @johnwinward2421 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jammer70s In the UK at least, the Beatles used to produice them as Xmas novelties for the fanclubs.

  • @ponyboymaicjoyce6308
    @ponyboymaicjoyce6308 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video, to me, is the best thing I've ever seen on the internet.

  • @TheSpeenort
    @TheSpeenort 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I still have a 'Fuzz-Wah' pedal that I bought in 1969. The Wah portion squeaks and carries over to the amp but the Fuzz is great.

    • @duellingscarguevara
      @duellingscarguevara ปีที่แล้ว

      I had a coloursound fuzz/Wah/swell, that a music shop guy scammed off of me. Fkn prk. Like an old pistol, some guy says, “yeah I can get it fixed for you”. If someone says that to you?. (Wise up sucker), and walk away.

  • @CrisCDXX
    @CrisCDXX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    N.I.B. Black Sabbath. The first time a bass wah solo was recorded in music history. (According to Geezer and Dunlop)

    • @ericturcotte3131
      @ericturcotte3131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd say electric "bass guitar", but I'm not too good with semantics.

    • @reynoldsparrow834
      @reynoldsparrow834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wrong Jack Bruce used one with Cream.

    • @TheChadPad
      @TheChadPad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@reynoldsparrow834 Did he play a solo with it?

    • @reynoldsparrow834
      @reynoldsparrow834 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheChadPad no just riffing th-cam.com/video/EnmGmcndPMk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Cream-Topic

  • @ttttmnky
    @ttttmnky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I don't usually comment, but I love this format of the show. Pedal demos area great, to but hear Josh walk us through his thoughts as he plays an ultra rare demo for a now super popular tool is absolutely fantastic. Loved every moment of this!

  • @gastonmacmillan4849
    @gastonmacmillan4849 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Zappa was a very early adopter of the Wah. One story is Hendrix heard FZ playing one in NYC, and bought one the next day.

  • @GG-ik6it
    @GG-ik6it ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for playing that historical gem. Rare experience. You should rip the audio if no one else has yet

  • @xdoctorblindx
    @xdoctorblindx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    An ad played just as you put the record on, and I was like, "wait... they had ball trimmers in the 60s?!"

    • @kingofrod
      @kingofrod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alright so I'm not the only one getting that ad all the time.

  • @Mistertbones
    @Mistertbones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    The Wah pedal is legendary. You love it, I love it, your grandmother loves it, your dentist loves it, everyone loves it.

    • @robbirose7032
      @robbirose7032 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Adele doesn't love it.

    • @albertceva1526
      @albertceva1526 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Andrew Hoppe that's a toothy reply.

    • @pedrotoledo2414
      @pedrotoledo2414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@robbirose7032
      Hahahahaha indeed..

    • @davidcastellanos881
      @davidcastellanos881 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mexican narcos and the whole cartel love it too.

    • @jlundbom
      @jlundbom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When I lived in New York, my dentist was an amateur singer/songwriter and would play you his songs while he worked on your teeth. It was odd.

  • @AdrianSusianto
    @AdrianSusianto ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing, this is truly rare historic documentation.

  • @vanessajazp6341
    @vanessajazp6341 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Historical footnote: that "cocked Wah" setting is what inspired the intro for Dire Straits' big hit, Money For Nothin'.

  • @MrLosfuegos
    @MrLosfuegos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    OK.. I'm now 100% sure George Harrison heard the "wah wah" outro theme song, and reworked for his song... Wah Wah.

    • @TheFuzzBassist
      @TheFuzzBassist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My thoughts exactly! Sounds too close to be an accident

    • @gayvalds
      @gayvalds 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the similarity!

    • @erestube
      @erestube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good ear. Similar approach. And he definitely plagiarized the lyrics.

    • @stecker06
      @stecker06 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thought the same thing, and there is plenty of precedent of George hearing things and subconsciously (or not) "borrowing" them.

    • @Ayyem93
      @Ayyem93 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stecker06 you mean one song?
      Wow he can't write anything original

  • @kevingates3494
    @kevingates3494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The end of the jingle, where the singers say "WAH WAH," reminds me of the George Harrison tune

    • @MrBrianzero
      @MrBrianzero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes it did me too. I wonder if he had that demo record

    • @smtcharlie
      @smtcharlie 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, immediately thought of that too!

  • @paengsterable
    @paengsterable 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for letting us hear the recording:)

  • @pieter-basbeijer5781
    @pieter-basbeijer5781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a brilliant episode. Thanks a lot!

  • @bassguy1812
    @bassguy1812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Electric Prunes are a great band! They were produced by David Axelrod, a very talented arranger and composer who worked with them on a few records. Make sure to check out Release of an Oath by the Prunes and Axelrod's solo records, very nice mix of psych rock and jazz.

  • @acidfilth2007
    @acidfilth2007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    DUDE, Geezer butler claims to be the first person to record the bass with each on an album NIB the opening is a giant bass way solo

    • @acidfilth2007
      @acidfilth2007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Album released in 1970 so they woulda been working on it in 68 or at least 69 right???

    • @dharmaducious
      @dharmaducious 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This record is now the first. Hahaha.

  • @markpickardlife
    @markpickardlife 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    excellent episode. thanks!

  • @jtemprile
    @jtemprile 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this one. Great episode!

  • @artemkurteev
    @artemkurteev 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    N.i.b. Bass intro solo uses a wah and it’s awesome

  • @mrmapegothe13th
    @mrmapegothe13th 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    “What is the genre? Let’s argue over that”
    Anthony Fantano has entered the chat

    • @namebrandmason
      @namebrandmason 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Anthony Fantano, Clyde McCoy. . .forever.

  • @cokolok0
    @cokolok0 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great vid, as always. Thanks Josh, for sharing your wisdom!!!

  • @acynecki
    @acynecki 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is great. Thanks for doing these videos josh

  • @ice_cream_city
    @ice_cream_city 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The music on that record is typical of the music used in tv shows and movies at that time. It's what Hollywood thought rock music sounded like. It really was that cheesy.

    • @joermnyc
      @joermnyc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, like Dr. Evil trying to be cool with his son by “dancing” the Macarena.

    • @farmduck2762
      @farmduck2762 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep, exactly. Every time the cops went to the bar where all the groovy kids hang out.

  • @trinityflow
    @trinityflow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Eric Clapton’s lead in White Room is undeniably the best ever wha solo.

    • @HenritheHorse
      @HenritheHorse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Definitely up there!

    • @TheRealcdawg22
      @TheRealcdawg22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's definately up there but I gotta go with Hendrix 'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)' or 'Machine Gun'. That wah lead Clapton does on 'Presence of the Lord' from the Blind Faith album is bitchin' also.

    • @WindsOfNeptune
      @WindsOfNeptune 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheRealcdawg22 I’ve always loved the Presence Of The Lord solo and tone. It sounds like Wah pedal and a Leslie speaker

    • @honkytonkinson9787
      @honkytonkinson9787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheRealcdawg22 band of gypsys power of love, when the wah kicks the intro into overdrive!

    • @jamesfyffe2610
      @jamesfyffe2610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hendrix all along the watch tower lead.... my personal favorite.

  • @rickwitt5735
    @rickwitt5735 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Absolutely love this video. I really appreciate the deep dive into the history of the pedal and the record on cardboard is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

  • @fongy200
    @fongy200 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have one Josh, it's still fixed in the VOX promo material. It's in my late fathers collection. He left me some great vintage Guitars, accessories. Just loads of gear, Records, lots of great things. My Dad was right handed though and i am left handed so it's a real bummer. Their heirlooms anyway. Thanks Josh, great stuff as always.

  • @keatonlusk3693
    @keatonlusk3693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Del Casher's Wah-wah demo is like the 60 year old version of Josh's pedal demos lol

  • @GEOisJIF
    @GEOisJIF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Dont apologise for the story times I want to hear all of them... wish you had a channel of just story times haha

  • @Alex-Lutes87
    @Alex-Lutes87 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is seriously my fav video of all time! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video! You killed it

  • @leoa.g.333
    @leoa.g.333 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It sounds so cute, it actually creates a new sound to express yourself. Ot doesn't matter your reaponse to it. The wah sound creates a new expressuon. Thank you very much.

  • @PooNinja
    @PooNinja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Say 'wha’ again. Say 'wha' again, I dare you, I double dare you Mr. Scott , say wha one more time!
    Cause it my second favorite effect next to Distortion.

    • @PooNinja
      @PooNinja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The entire foot goes on the pedal 🤣
      I had a “broken “ phaser that rate could get stuck and you could use it as an awesome extreme cocked wha tones ... I miss that thing 😢

    • @CorbCorbin
      @CorbCorbin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@PooNinja
      I use a Whetstone phaser, and it has 4 different Range settings, and the Fix one gives a cocked wah effect. Awesome Optical Phaser

    • @PooNinja
      @PooNinja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@CorbCorbin thank you 🙏🏽 🤘🏽

  • @frankpotter5936
    @frankpotter5936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    According to Del Casher and others, Frank Zappa introduced Jimi Hendrix to the wah wah at the Garrick Theater in NYC in 1967. Hendrix's second album, Axis: Bold as Love, was released in January of 1968, not 1967, as Josh mentions. Casher also said that Zappa introduced the pedal to Eric Clapton.

    • @travislivingston5478
      @travislivingston5478 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Axis: Bold as Love was released in the U.K. first, in December 1967. The U.S. release was 1968

  • @martysradioshow5979
    @martysradioshow5979 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Josh i love this episode

  • @theyearsshallrun6641
    @theyearsshallrun6641 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Particularly enjoyed this episode. Cheers!

  • @pauloprzybylski6522
    @pauloprzybylski6522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The record is in good shape for a 54 year old cardboard piece. No scratches at all, good sound quality.

  • @jeremeykinser1147
    @jeremeykinser1147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ok, so I haven’t read to see if anyone has already commented about this but the Electric Prunes are amazing. There are essentially two different bands though because by the time you get to “Mass in F Minor” and the following “release of an oath” (I highly recommend that one) the band is basically just a name owned by the label. I’m not sure how many original members remained but those two records are pretty much David Axlerod concept albums and they so rad.great stuff.

  • @SinnetSongs
    @SinnetSongs 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was super fun and interesting! Thanks!

  • @martysradioshow5979
    @martysradioshow5979 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks Josh for this Episode

  • @davemabee5798
    @davemabee5798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If I'm not mistaken, Mass in F Minor was in fact recorded by a group of studio musicians and credited to the Prunes despite them not having much, if any, input on it. If you ever saw Easy Rider you've heard Kyrie Eleison. (Side 1 - Track 1.)

    • @creamydistortion
      @creamydistortion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The lyrics to Kyrie Eleison are in my art history textbook. I always just thought it was a psychedelic song - yes, I remember the scene from Easy Rider where the prostitute is zoned out with a pipe in her hand... I had the soundtrack on vinyl to (it's on side 2 - side one starts with The Pusher / Born to be Wild)...

  • @jppagetoo
    @jppagetoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That tune on the record sure sounds like a track from Zappa's "Freak Out" or "We're Only In It For the Money".

    • @michaelkoenig6317
      @michaelkoenig6317 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I found out that Del Casher played for Zappa in studio before Frank even formed the Mother’s. Zappa was no guitar player then. I think he looked very precisely to what Del was doing, he also bought the guitar model Del played. That’s why it sounds so very similar.

    • @jppagetoo
      @jppagetoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michaelkoenig6317 Is that right? Makes sense if you listen to the music. Also the gear Frank used had a lot in common as well. Thanks for the info!

    • @michaelkoenig6317
      @michaelkoenig6317 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look here: wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Del_Casher
      I think Del Casher had a vast influence on Frank's guitar playing... In the binning Zappa used the wah like his idol on the cardboard disc if you listen to "We're only in it for the money" - later he developed his own technique with the pedal...

  • @JF-em6hr
    @JF-em6hr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Demos have come a long way. Gotta count our blessings sometimes.

  • @markkirschenmann3925
    @markkirschenmann3925 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Incredible, insightful. Thanks for posting!

  • @MikeFoerster
    @MikeFoerster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    SoundGarden: My Wave, near the end

  • @pepperstevens481
    @pepperstevens481 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can you guys do shows on best and budget pedals for acoustic guitar? Delay, reverb, chorus, preamp/di etc...

  • @greysuit17
    @greysuit17 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The music in that record is awesome!

  • @Globularmotif
    @Globularmotif ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your history lessons, not only are they interesting but I find it very useful to know the time lines of fx as they get built and manufactured.