There wasn’t ever really the possibility of doing this kind of thing. We don’t usually feel comfortable touching it. How did this more aggressive proto-stoner metal project come to be?ĬHARLES MOOTHART: We’ve always been into that kind of stuff. We caught up with Moothart, who called in from his San Francisco home, to talk about the roots of the Fuzz project and embracing the craziness that embodies the way that he and Segall work.ĬOLIN JOYCE: I want to start at the very beginning of the idea.
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After taking their once homebound project to a studio alongside bassist Roland Cosio, they’ve emerged with a self-titled debut LP that rivals many of the stoner rock anthems they recall throughout. So when the trio (with bassist Roland Cosio) revealed themselves as the force behind an anonymous 7″ released in December on Trouble In Mind, they did so not with the pretense of a big PR reveal, but with cheesy “you caught us” grins. This one was to live in the realms of bong rips and doom riffs and old, beat-up copies of Paranoid. Though this new project of theirs was indeed conceived with the intent to release records and hit the road, the idea was to do so without any of the associations that might surround yet another Moothart and Segall project. Moothart and Segall already had a good gig going with the Ty Segall Band. The project had as humble beginnings as any, but when Moothart enlisted Segall on drums and vocals duties, Fuzz was already destined for more than garage-band obscurity.
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So when this first riff, the spark of the project, made its way from brain, to fingers, to guitar, to amp, it was almost self-evident that the chain would eventually trickle down to the ears of listeners. This riff, however, sprung from the brain of one Charles Moothart, a longtime collaborator of Ty Segall and a guitarist in his live band. The songs project a state of perpetual paranoia and eroding mental health.Īnd as it should be, you know? It’s a record for the burners.Like so many bands that litter the course of rock-‘n’-roll history, Fuzz started at home with nothing more than a single riff. Maybe youíll even glimpse the ghost of Australian guitar-legend/sharpie guru Lobby Lloyde sniffing around “Raise.”
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There are Sabbath and Hendrix nods, obviously, but on “Sleigh Bells” you might also catch a whiff of UK progressive blues business like The Groundhogs, particularly when the song quits its 10/4-time intro and reboots into full bore choogle.
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The bandís self-titled debut LP, which was recorded by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, The Intelligence), dives deep, drawing inspiration from the more esoteric reaches of heavy metal pre-history. Fuzz have flipped through used bins, hard drives, and record collections of the world, seeking out the finest weirdo cuts. Around the time of the second single, Cosio joined on bass. Since then, they have released two singles, “This Time I Got a Reason” (Trouble In Mind) and “Sleigh Ride” (In the Red). They are heavy-rock lifers and three California-bred dudes who have been refining their riffs and getting weird together since high school which wasn’t that long ago, actually).įuzz was formed in/around 2011 as a collaboration between Segall and Moothart, but its only within the last year that the pair had sufficient time to guide the band out of side-project limbo and into a recording studio. Fuzz is Ty Segall (drums/vocals), Charlie Moothart (guitar/vocals), and Chad Ubovich (bass).