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Gibson revives legendary Maestro pedals brand with five new stompboxes, including the Fuzz-Tone FZ-M

Rumours about Gibson reviving its Maestro pedals have been circulating for some time, but now it’s official. 60 years on from its birth, the Maestro brand is being revived. What‘s more Gibson is ...
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Interview: "It’s arguably the first guitar effects pedal ever" – Gibson on the return of the FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone and Maestro pedals

60 years ago, Maestro’s first stompbox – the FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone – was launched. Kickstarting a revolution in sound it was the progenitor of all fuzz pedals Employing three germanium transistors this ...
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Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects: The Fuzz-Tone FZ-1

* On 12 May 1965, Keith Richards was sitting in the RCA Studios in Hollywood, working on the now famous introduction to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". "I was imagining horns," he later wrote in his ...