60s garage songs featuring wah-wah guitar?

[M.T. Wallet]

the Vox Wah Wah ad on the Pebbles says the Electric Prunes, the Animals or Paul Revere & the Raiders use it... but do you know any other examples please?
I'm not very keen on that effect, just wondering...

 

[HarvestmanMan]

"Three Ring Circus" by Yorkville Grind and "Where Did My World Come From?" by the Glass Harp (Phil Keaggy on guitar) are two examples that pop to my mind.

(Incidentally, I had the latter 45, but misplaced it. Still trying to find it...:confused:)

 

[M.T. Wallet]

thanks!
i've just read that the vox pedal has only been released in feb. '67 (I really thought it was earlier)
I don't know if it was expensive then, but it seems that very few guitar players used it till
Hendrix did

 

[depravedskippy66]

I'd be curious to know if there are any bands that used it before Hendrix and Cream, or is this a situation where bands did not start using the wah wah pedal until after Eric and Jimi showed what could be done with it? Despite The Electric Prunes demonstrating it for that ad, I cannot recall them using it on any of their material. Nothing that comes readily to mind, anyway.

 

[M.T. Wallet]

and I doubt the EPrunes used a wah wah on I Had Too Much To Dream; it sounds much more like a big tremolo+fuzz, and a big kick in the reverb tank before the chorus...

from Harvestman Man comments

on the guitar solo only

 

[Sancho Panza]

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the rhythm guitar is played through a wah-wah, it gets more clear towards the end of the song:

"Stereo Shoestring - On The Road South"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6ob5Exl4U

This monster of a song definitely has a wah-wah:

"INDEX - Shock Wave"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcCp-Etd0zo

Can't think of anymore songs at the moment, sorry.

 

[M.T. Wallet]

whoa, great songs
yeah, you must be right about the rhythm guitar
I was actually refering to the beginning of the song that we hear on the wahwah ad

I still don't know when the Raiders/Animals guitar players used it...
another one, longer:

there's another weird effect that's been used in the 60s, but it's more a studio thing: reversing track
like on the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows or the break of Travis Wammack's Scratchy or some songs by Zappa

 

[Sancho Panza]

How about this one?

"Ron Wray Light Show - Speed"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLG1KgKbHg

 

[MopTopMike]

"Speed" wasn't recorded and released until 1970.

"Up In My Mind" - Spontaneous Generation, and "I Need Some Love" - Shades Of Time use the wah-wah effect. The Shades Of Time tune has the effect mixed way down in the track. Most of the early efforts circa '67 use it more as an element of the rhythm, and not the usually annoying, up-front leads with back and forth rocking on the footpedal

 

[mansson66]

The Ladds - Survival has wahwah in the freaky ending...
There's also wah on The Xtreems - Facts Of Life - which IMO ruins the song completely
The stunning guitar leads that elevate The Castaways - Just On High has wah/fuzz, used to great effect IMO
...wahwah is not a favorite effect of mine though... usually just awful and predictable.

 

[MopTopMike]

The over-indulgence of the Wah-Wah pedal is akin to the elctronic drum sound of the new-wave era of the '80s - cloying, annoying, and in most cases, ruins the sound

 

[Shakesomeaction]

I agree with MTM, I try and avoid any singles / tracks featuring the dreaded Wah Wah pedal if I can help it.

 

[M.T. Wallet]

you may hear some wahwah during the guitar solo, 1'10
Jimmy Page or Mick Jones on guitar(?)