Dinosaur Jr – Chocomel Daze

"JM: Well, just when I started playing guitar. I had the intention of starting Dinosaur, so I knew I needed a fuzz box. I don’t know how I came across one, maybe at the mall. I came across this Deluxe Big Muff that I bought. That’s the first one.

KR: Is that what we hear on those early Dinosaur records?

JM: Yeah, that’s on the first two albums, then it got stolen one night. Then I traded a Music Man 100 watt amp head for another one. This guy I knew had one. I didn’t like this amp too much, and he thought I was crazy to trade a whole amp for a pedal, but...

KR: Was that another Deluxe Big Muff?

JM: Yeah, but it didn’t sound quite as good somehow.

KR: The circuits changed a few times in the Deluxe Big Muffs, and there were two versions.

JM: Oh really?

KR: Yeah, minor changes, but some of them sound slightly different.

JM: It was weird. The problem I had with it is it had a weird kind of ghost fuzz, even when it was turned off, you could hear this little buzz."

In the video for the release of his Signature EHX Big Muff + several articles, J revealed that the pedal was stolen at CBGB’s while preforming with GG Allen. He got another one after that didn’t sound the same after trading a Music Man head for it. “ “The Deluxe Big Muff was the first one I had, The first got stolen, then I got another Deluxe, which was hard without Reverb or the internet. I found one guy somewhere who had one. I traded him a Music Man head for the Big Muff, which everyone thought it was insane at the time. But it was my sound. I needed it.”