Living through this golden age of guitar effects, it is hard to imagine a world without fuzz pedals, without an overdrive pedal to step on when we need some crunch, but that was the world in which Dave Davies and the Kinks found themselves when they were putting a new sound together.
The guitar amps of the early ‘60s were not doing it for them. Rock ’n’ roll had turned up the volume for electric guitar and yet that only whetted the appetite for players such as Davies, who wanted to push the envelope. Origin stories of classic guitar songs – and especially classic guitar sounds – tend to be contested after some decades pass.
