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<blockquote data-quote="changeling" data-source="post: 3785" data-attributes="member: 52"><p>Here is all you need to know, mate: </p><p>I was very depressed and fooling around with a razor blade. I could easily have slashed my wrists, but I had a little green amplifier, an Elpico, that was sounding crap. I thought, 'I'll teach it' – and slashed the speaker cone," Davies explained. "It changed the sound of my guitar. Then, when I wired that amp up to another, a Vox AC30, it made it a lot, lot louder. That's how 'You Really Got Me' became the first hit record to use distortion, which so many bands have cited as the beginnings of punk and heavy metal."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Read More: </strong><a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kinks-you-really-got-me-anniversary/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">How the Kinks Changed Rock Music With 'You Really Got Me'</a> | <a href="https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kinks-you-really-got-me-anniversary/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kinks-you-really-got-me-anniversary/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="changeling, post: 3785, member: 52"] Here is all you need to know, mate: I was very depressed and fooling around with a razor blade. I could easily have slashed my wrists, but I had a little green amplifier, an Elpico, that was sounding crap. I thought, 'I'll teach it' – and slashed the speaker cone," Davies explained. "It changed the sound of my guitar. Then, when I wired that amp up to another, a Vox AC30, it made it a lot, lot louder. That's how 'You Really Got Me' became the first hit record to use distortion, which so many bands have cited as the beginnings of punk and heavy metal." [B]Read More: [/B][URL='https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kinks-you-really-got-me-anniversary/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral']How the Kinks Changed Rock Music With 'You Really Got Me'[/URL] | [URL]https://ultimateclassicrock.com/kinks-you-really-got-me-anniversary/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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