blue box

[Goddard, Duncan]

>>what about the MXR Blue Box?<<

got one of those, too. I bought it to use on bass guitar, after seeing john
parrish use one with pj harvey- we asked him how he got such a good fuzz
sound on his bass and it was the blue box. when I tried it, it sounded
pants. gave it to our guitarist, he gave it straight back.

even better blue-box story:
in 1993, when I'd been at mtv only a little while, dinosaur jr came in to do
a studio set. all the flight cases were purple, and j had big bean bags
instead of guitar stands..... quite a character. anyway, me and the guitar
tech were setting up the amps- I got rid of a buzz that had plagued them the
whole tour, simply by keeping the many mains leads for the marshalls away
from the signal leads. one of these flight cases was about 9 feet long, 5
feet high and only about 6 inches deep. "what the hell is that?" says I.
"it's his pedalboard" says the tech. seems mr mascis couldn't bear the idea
of his pedals and stompboxes being in a different place every night, so he
had them all fastened to this enormous blob-shaped lump of perspex so they'd
all stay the right distance from each other.
one of the was the blue box. the tech plugged one of j's jag's into the
whole kit and started checking it all out. he switched on the blue box-
horrid noise comes out. neither of us knew what this thing was supposed to
do but it sounded wrong so I went for a new battery. it still sounded wrong.
"guess it's supposed to be like that" says the tech, and got on with tuning
and so forth.

during the set, I watched as j stomped on the blue box, pulled a face and
stomped it off again.

does anyone know what's inside it?

d.



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