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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonno" data-source="post: 467876" data-attributes="member: 5">I suspect the guitar scratch is so called because of the action of scratching rather than the sound it produces.Anyway, the facts we have here are we've got a sound that's definitely called a scratch and it sounds like a scratch (regardless of what implement produces it). The jury is definitely out as to a vinyl scratch being called that because it sounds like someone scratching their heads or suchlike (I'd say scratching is definitely, historically, a verb rather than an adjective). Therefore I'd postulate the theory that a vinyl scratch is called a scratch because it sounds like a guitar scratch. I can't believe the 2 are unrelated, as guitar scratches seem to be played on records that early hip hop DJ's were using for their breaks anyway.I thought that adventures was just cutting up, I don't recall there being scratching. Could be completely wrong there though. Either way I didn't say Rockit was the first, more that it was up there (ditto D'ya like scratching). Although it does have to be said that Rockit was certainly one that the likes of QBert and Mixmaster Mike quote as saying where they first they heard scratching.</blockquote>

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