Who was the first guitarist to do the "Chicka chicka wa wa" sound?

[tubed]

The Stooges

 

[tubed]

Donovan

 

[johnebravo]

I thought it went back to Lonnie Mack ... but they worked it so hard in the SHAFT theme song that introduced us all to it.
(How hard did they work it baby?, oh oh baby, THAT hard ... SHAFT!)

I think we're starting to border on explicitly salacious content now. Of course, that was guaranteed to happen with this subject matter. I may have to refer back to the official site policies now to see how much farther down this road is within the guidelines.

 

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[Strat_Fan]

Here you go, everything you need to know about the Wah Pedal:

 

[rrago]

I think we're starting to border on explicitly salacious content now. Of course, that was guaranteed to happen with this subject matter. I may have to refer back to the official site policies now to see how much farther down this road is within the guidelines.

IDK...with an avatar like that....what's your definition of salacious...lol

 

[BigElCat]

Boom-chicka-boom belongs to Johnny Cash.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/n...ht-boom-chicka-boom-to-johnny-cashs-band-dies

 

[911s55]

The percussive riff in the original post has nothing to do with a wah wah pedal effect.

 

[Awesomeaudio]

Ah yes, the mustache years.

Don't forget about bush either

 

[john111/LZ]

lt all began at 3.30 am in the Pig and Pup pub in Cleveland in 1969 when Mickey Muff collapsed on his Strat after a surfeit of vodka and pork scratchings.Recovering himself at once he blithely continued clumsily thwacking his instrument while gyrating unstabely around the stage treading on things and pedals.Crowd went wild and the rest is history.Mickey never got the recognition he deserved,ending his days as a merkin costumier with notorious rock entrepeneur Vern Furkenball.

 

[tyeeslayer]

lt all began at 3.30 am in the Pig and Pup pub in Cleveland in 1969 when Mickey Muff collapsed on his Strat after a surfeit of vodka and pork scratchings.Recovering himself at once he blithely continued clumsily thwacking his instrument while gyrating unstabely around the stage treading on things and pedals.Crowd went wild and the rest is history.Mickey never got the recognition he deserved,ending his days as a merkin costumier with notorious rock entrepeneur Vern Furkenball.

As of today he will get the recognition he deserves. RIP Mickey.

 

[toddalin]

lt all began at 3.30 am in the Pig and Pup pub in Cleveland in 1969 when Mickey Muff collapsed on his Strat after a surfeit of vodka and pork scratchings.Recovering himself at once he blithely continued clumsily thwacking his instrument while gyrating unstabely around the stage treading on things and pedals.Crowd went wild and the rest is history.Mickey never got the recognition he deserved,ending his days as a merkin costumier with notorious rock entrepeneur Vern Furkenball.

No no no! This was actually all started by Carman Miranda. She did this in 1941 and died in 1955!

Everyone else just ripped her off and took liberties with it.

 

[BigElCat]

Don't forget about bush either

They used the pedal.

It's more of a 'wa wa squaw wa wa', though.

 

[john111/LZ]

Theres some talk that Carmen and Vern had a liason-producing Mickey and giving him away to the Muff family....would explain everything wa wa it seems....

 

[Roboturner91]

Probably Chet Atkins or somebody like that.

 

[john111/LZ]

Bert Weedon.....he was always a dark horse....

 

[MannyE]

Yeah, Skip Pitts, studio guy at Stax who played the guitar on Shaft. He died not long ago.

Check him out here.

I don't know who did it first, but this guy did it best! You got the idea they could have kept on going for another 10 minutes with the jam at the end. Awesome.

 

[rustycat]

I think this is where it started :

 

[JoeESP9]

I think this is where it started :

There is quite a bit of "artistic license" in the Back To The Future movies.

 

[KentTeffeteller]

It's a Rockabilly and country inspired Memphis funk lick. Has some of the twang of Memphis Country music and rockabilly, with the funky Memphis R&B and Soul stew blended into one deluxe funky, chunky Joint. A Memphis session man lick which was always money in that musician's bank account. Lonnie Mack's sound is in there to a degree. And Lonnie Mack was very influenced by earlier Blues, R&B, and Black Gospel Shouters in so many ways.