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The best pedals ever to happen to rock music
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  September 8, 2008

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DALLAS ARBITER FUZZ FACE & ROGER MEYER OCTAVIA | Jimi Hendrix on “Purple Haze” | The guitar tone on both the verse and the solo break of “PH” were groundbreaking: the Fuzz Face created a sound previously unheard on the radio of the day, and the Octavia helped transform the tune’s lead break into sheer bloody lunacy.

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