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[Ed G.]

Anyone see those Chevy Cobalt commercials? When I heard those licks, I thought, "I bet that's some old Jeff Beck" just because it was so un-blueslike...he has such a way of not doing the obvious. A co-worker told me it was in fact the Yardbirds.
That's such a cool fuzz tone. I imagine then it's one of the tonebenders, would that be the 2 or 3 knob version?

[petemoore]

Recent discussion thread about that...
 I'd go with the 2 knob Tonebender...socket a cap or so.

[MartyMart]

I've read that "JB" used a "Two knob tonebender" in those days
I built the "small bear" version recently ..... gorgeous sounding fuzz  

Marty.

[StephenGiles]

Try to find "Youre a better man than I" by the Yardbirds. I think it was the B side of Heart Full of Soul - Jeff Beck did a fuzz solo with amazing sustain.
Stephen

[SeanCostello]

Is it the original Yardbirds clip? For some reason, it sounded like a cover - very close, but not quite Jeff Beck.

Two-knob Tone Bender, for sure. One question is whether it would be the 3-transistor version (Mk II) or the older 2 transistor version.

Sean Costello

[petemoore]

I've got a Tonebender here, with three Ge's ordered from Small Bear...the pedal is superb. The three knobber I haven't tried, and read it's less intense, or mellower, the 2Q version of the TB is a basically a FF circuit.

[brian wenz]

Hello Hello--
     I'd have to hear he commercial again but I think it's a "cover" version.
[And the tone of the fuzz doesn't sound like the original, either...]
Beck was using a Sola Sound TB MK I  [which may have been a different circuit then the Vox Tonebender MK I]  and it had 2 knobs.  Some of the earlier  Gary Hurst - built MK I circuits had three trannys instead of the two-tranny Vox-style TB.
Yeah..."Mister, You're A Better Man Then I"  has a GREAT fuzz solo on it!
Brian.

[pjwhite]

Yeah, it's a cover version, and they play it WRONG.  One note goes down where it should go up and it drives me crazy everytime I hear it.  I pulled out my old Yardbirds album and gave it a listen the other day to be sure.  Man, the original sure is a great song.  Lots of energy, killer riff.

[squidsquad]

Once again I agree w/Brian W.  And that commercial drives me crazy...because he plays the lick WRONG!!!  As for me...the solo on Evil Hearted You (Yardbirds) is what made me get my first Strat...thinking I needed a whammy bar to get the vibrato.  But of course...it was a SLIDE...DUH!
(I was young).  Never lost my love for strats....thanks Jeff!

[squidsquad]

BTW...there is SO much magic on SO many of them Yardbird tracks....I won't even list them...it would be too long.  They were the first band I would ALWAYS catch when they came to town (Chicago)...LIVE=WOW!!!

[StephenGiles]

The JB lineup was very different from the former EC lineup, far more bluesy.There was a CD of the Yardbirds' BBC sessions, I was always there by my old reel to reel, finger poised on the pause button!
Stephen

[brian wenz]

Hello Hello---
       It's always pissed me off that the "bean counters" in back of all these commercials don't want to pay royalties to the original performers so they have some hack record a cover version....................pricks....
Well, the good news is it's made me want to get all my Yardbirds albums out again!
Brian.

[Pedal love]

RG might want to chime in.

[Ed G.]

I guess if it makes guys like me who never heard much Yardbirds growing up (I'm 34) seek the stuff out, then that's a positive thing. I think it's funny, even if the guitarist botched up the lick, when I heard that fuzz, and that style, I knew it was probably Jeff Beck.