Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" - How they got that Sound!

It was 5:30 in the morning, and they'd been recording for 3 days, but Buddy had one more song. The story of how innovative drumming and recording techniques, the Fender Stratocaster, and some fancy gear-shifting combined to make "Peggy Sue", a record that would sell more than 5 million copies!

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(Note: I made an error in one part of the discussion. In Buddy’s day, the bridge pickup of a Stratocaster was wired straight to the output jack, bypassing the tone control. The sound is very similar to turning the tone all the way up on a modern Strat.)

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