The Origin of Guitar Distortion (playing a 1949 Fender Tweed Deluxe... then going kinda nuts)

Old gear + historical facts + jam is definitely my type of content on YouTube

this poor Fender amp was treated like pulling an 80 year old man out of bed and taking them skydiving against their will

Rob trying to catch Josh's eyes while he's playing, and Josh looking away awkwardly. I felt that in my soul.

When these came out everyone HATED them for exactly the same reason people love them now. My uncle remembers buying one that was almost brand new from a guy in 1952 for $20. The new price was $140.

Don't think we don't notice all the cameos of First of October songs, Rob! 😄

I lost it at "this is a cannibal corpse song" 😂😂😂 A blues proctologist was also very funny 😄😄

Josh's passive aggressive disdain for insane blues gynecologist pedal weirdos is palpable and I love it.

Really nailing that “Crazy Train” tone with the Klon Chain

I have that exact Fender amp! I inherited it from my grandma in my teens (I’m in my 50’s now). She played an electrified accordion through it in a touring Polka band before my time. It needs a recap after all this time, which I’ll definitely do, but my appreciation for it just went up, and it was already very high from its own back story.

The way Josh's eyes glaze over when Rob plays a metal riff through these is hilarious. You can just see that it hurts him a little bit every time

Rob stands up at the end and jams his guitar straight through the grill of that tweed deluxe and then body slams the table with all the Klons on it!!! Rock n Roll!!!

Quarter million dollars to get the philosophical distortion antithesis to the "ALL THE GAIN NO MIDS METALZONE" tone. Brilliant

18:37 Rob after travelling through time and playing this in the 1940's with stolen equipment worth a quarter of a million: "Guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But the kids watching Youtube are gonna love it"

Radio broadcasting started in 1906, was well underway in 1920, 29 years before this amp came out. Youtube dates from 2005, 18 years ago.

Holy crap. Original tubes and speaker handling all that boost?! Incredible.

That Fender amp still kicking at 80 y/o, amazing!

So Rock'n'Roll was the result of an accident of overdriven amps that were not meant to be overdriven like that. And Techno is the result of an accident of cheap gear that failed on the market used by kids from Detroit and Chicago not in their originally intended way. Like Derrick May said "This music is like this city, an absolute mistake". Mistakes and Accidents make for some of the greatest musical revolution in history.

"When the blues proctologist gets the Klon..." that's quote of the week right there.

I genuinely love Josh's unabashed nerdishness, passion, and immeasurable knowledge regarding the history of wiggly air pressure dirty tones. It makes me rethink what "heavy" sounds can be with merely a BMP Deluxe (with EX pedal), a RAT, and a DS1. 🖖

I've got a 5 watt Fender Tweed Vibro-Champ with tube tremolo including a speed control, Hi and Lo output, no tone control, and a volume control. She looks very much like this amp and she does distort at anything past 5 out of 12. It was advertised as a tube amp capable of getting that tube distortion at a reasonable volume and that it certainly does. It cost $1,000 new back around 2016/2017 when I purchased her new. I do like her a lot and the longer she stays on the better she sounds. So it's best to turn her on early in the morning and by 6 p.m. I get that tone and distortion that makes my day! I can really rip and do so without destroying my hearing. That makes this amp a real gem and a winner! - Peter age 73