Comment Re:Sounds familiar... (Score 1) 437
"It never fails to surprise how unimaginative visionaries can be."
Perhaps with the kind of music he was playing, distortion would have sucked.
It works best musically with fewer musicians and small arrangements with simple harmonic structures.
Go much beyond a major chord and fuzz starts to sound bad. There is too much dissonance and it sounds too messy.
It used to be the job of the brass section to give you that harmonically rich sound!
Once bands became three/four piece, and guitarists stopped playing all those complicated chords they could use fuzz on guitar and not take up all the space where the other musicians live!