Hi
On their seminal 1936 album
Bore You All To Death VIII, Amon Duul explored the musically possibilities of adding effects pedals to the recorded sound of the maracas they used on side-B opening song "Are You Still Awake?".
After some 14 years intense experimentation in the studio, they eventually settled on the sound generated by the ground-breaking "Super-Overdriven-Distortion" (S.O.D.) pedal first used by Can on their 1923 album
Can You Keep Your Eyes Open.
There were however a lot of intense arguments among band members on the use of the S.O.D. pedal - some though it added nothing to the character of the maracas, others though it was just alright.
These legendary arguments and discussions were later immortalised on Gong's 1951 album
Going Going Gong in the aptly entitled tune "SOD On!".
Of course, my own feelings on the matter are quite Amon Dull so I'll try to keep them down to around 400,000 words or fewer.
The main argument in my opinion aga
inst using this particular pedal