Dave Davies on You Really Got Me

“It started as this jazz riff, I was experimenting with this little amp and wanted to try and get a different sound, it was the beginning of the bar-chord and I liked that style. I got so fed up with this amplifier and sliced it with a razor blade not thinking for a minute that would work. I plugged in and it made this big rasping, raucous and explosive sound. Years later I noticed that it was just at the point when an amp was about to blow up that they sounded at their best.”

May God bless Dave Davies.