This same lo-tech method for obtaining distortion was employed by Carlos
Santana. I saw him talk about it in a smokey basement in N.W. Washington,
D.C., I think it was like 1968 or '69, it's all so fuzzy... but as I
recall he made a couple or few slashes - over the gasps and initial
objections of his rotund plank spankin' cuzz, whose name I don't recall,
but I think it was the band's name, Zapata.
I seem to recall the few cuts were radiant, rather than lateral, or
parallel to the rim or driver, but can't be sure thirty-six years
later. I do remember we thought it was easy and reckless for a seemingly
rich rocker to slash cones, but a garage band couldn't so easily afford to
replace them, and I think they had much shorter usage lifes, shredding not
so long after the "modification." But again, it's all so darned fuzzy...
Sounded great though!
Harp content: I wasn't playing harp at the time, I was like 13 years old
and running cables and rolling papers. But I was preparing myself
spiritually to play the blues.
-Dave Fertig
At 05:12 AM 1/14/2006, you wrote:
From: John Frazer <jfrazer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 29, Issue 34
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:08:55 -0800
Spirit in the sky was played using a speaker with a rip in the cone.