SUPERFUZZ BIGMUFF PLUS EARLY SINGLES

The early work compiled, including immortal first 45 “Touch Me I’m Sick” MARK ARM: I’d worked with [engineer] Jack Endino in Green River, and Steve and I had been with The Thrown-Ups. We were tracking live, with vocal overdubs and a couple of guitar overdubs. It went pretty quickly – the five songs we recorded for the “Touch Me I’m Sick” single were over a weekend, or maybe just one evening, then another day of mixing. I can’t imagine “Superfuzz” took more than a couple of days. STEVE TURNER: It was at Reciprocal with Endino, the mad genius. I was getting used to the studio process, and obviously Jack knew what he was doing. We drank beer, rocked out, laughed a lot. Played the occasional record for inspiration… DAN PETERS: It was definitely a pretty cool time, having a place to go and record. It’s a simple process being an eight-track, so it wasn’t as daunting as walking into a big production studio. MATT LUKIN: I was still living down in Aberdeen, a couple of hours away, so I wasn’t really involved with the mixing, I was just there for recording the basic tracks. We went in and banged it out! Probably the best way, yeah, from my own experience.

ARM: Steve used the Big Muff pedal and I had the Superfuzz, but I think they were both Steve’s! We started a US tour before “Superfuzz” came out, which was maybe not the smartest thing. We met up with Sonic Youth partway through and supported them.

LUKIN: That helped us out a lot, I think. They pretty much had a builtin audience for us to open up to.