Electro-Harmonix has launched the Satisfaction Plus, an updated and expanded edition of its Satisfaction fuzz pedal that was inspired by the gnarly – and world-changing – fuzz sounds of Keith Richards on the Stones classic of the same name.
There were examples of fuzz on record before but the Rolling Stones 1965 hit (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction that’s where it really started for the fuzz-box as a going concern, when Richards used a Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone to give his riff something that no riff had had before. Richards originally imagined it as a horn part, and later that year Otis Redding (with Steve Cropper on guitar) would record a cover of it that was arguably the song Richards had intended all along.
