A version of this piece orginally appeared on The Week. Jimi Hendrix making his guitar "talk." Peter Tarnoff/Retna Ltd./Corbis The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, ...
The wah-wah pedal makes a guitar sound as though it's singing "wah, wah, wah." The effect was a staple of 1960s psychedelic rock: Jimi Hendrix bent reality with it in classics like "Voodoo Child ...
Kirk Hammett loves his wah pedal, but maybe he needs to give it a little space. During the band's performance in Milan, Italy on May 8th – it was a bit rainy and wet, and Kirk was soloing during "Moth ...