Re: : Ray Davies (non-Who)

["David S. Lifton" <dslift@erols.com>]

Kipp, David G. wrote:
 Also, all the mail I'm reading about Lennon/The Who/Kinks
> inventing feedback, I can't stop but think about the "little green amp".
>  For those who missed it, Dave Davies would take pins and puncture the "the
> little green amps" speaker for that added distortion and noise.  Thirty
> years later, it's what we all adore and call rock n'roll.  (No matter who
> invented it)


The actual inventor of that was Sam Phillips when Jackie Brentson 
recorded "Rocket 88" at Phillips' Sun Studios.  Many historians 
consider "Rocket 88" to be the first rock-n-roll record.

DSL