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Truetone Music | Behind The Counter
Name and age Paul Ulino, 53. Mike Randle, 51. Lou Castillo, age ain’t nothing but a number. Your story & background Paul: I was born and raised in New York City, and started in music retail in 1986. I spent sixteen years on Manhattan’s 48th Street strip of famous music emporiums, working at legendary stores like Alex…
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Juan Alderete | Stompbox Collectors
As StompboxBook discovered during an exhaustive hang this past spring, Juan Alderete has a signature warning to visitors to his pedal sanctuary nestled on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. “So, there’s no order to this shit,” he explains wearily. “It’s just a mess.” One person’s mess is clearly another’s treasure. To stompbox connoisseurs, to…
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Strymon | Stompbox Makers
“We want to build products with no compromises. We want to push the limits of technology in music.” That’s how Strymon describes its mission on its company website, and for once, it’s not hype. The Los Angeles-area based concern has proven one of the most innovative companies in guitar pedal-making history. It’s not for nothing…
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Whitney Petty | Pedal Boards
According to Whitney Petty, “The pedals on my board evoke different moods.” And clearly from examining said pedal board in an exclusive shoot for Stompbox, the Thunderpussy guitarist is a woman of many moods. Indeed, Petty is one of the most exciting, innovative new six-string stylists working today – and as such, her pedal board splits…
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Visiting Peter Holmström | The Making of Stompbox Book
Peter Holmström is nearly as famed for his pedal knowledge these days as he is for being the Dandy Warhols’ innovative guitarist. Okay, maybe not – but dude knows a lot about pedals. I mean, he co-conceived the Malekko Charlie Foxtrot, fer Chrissakes… So it’s funny to think that when Holmström first acquired one of…
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Visiting Whitney Petty | The Making of Stompbox Book
“Welcome to the Labia Lounge, where ideas are birthed!” That’s how the brilliant Whitney Petty welcomed us into the sacred space where the magic indeed happens for Petty and her bandmates in Thunderpussy, who are currently in the midst of non-stop action. The band is most busy of late – both creating new material for the follow-up…
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Visiting Dave Navarro | The Making of Stompbox Book
“We don’t hang out enough – fire your current tech and hire me!” Dan Cleary says he texted his future boss, Dave Navarro, in 2009. “I didn’t think that approach would work,” he adds, “but clearly it did!” Indeed. Navarro and Cleary met on Cleary’s first-ever tech gig, touring with Navarro’s side band, The Panic…
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Dave Navarro | Pedal Boards
According to Dave Navarro’s decade-strong guitar tech (and irreverently hilarious co-podcaster) Dan Cleary, Jane’s Addiction signature six-string stylist goes for strict utility on his pedalboard. Cleary’s dictate from da boss: while Dave’s pedals have to sound amazing, they must also be tough enough to stand up to rigorous touring wear and odd power situations. As…
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Visiting Paul Leary | The Making of Stompbox Book
When Eilon stopped by to shoot the illustrious pedals of Butthole Surfers guitarist and esteemed producer Paul Leary at his Austin, Texas-area home/studio compound, there was no shortage of music history lying about. It’s all in a day’s work (and some key e-commerce finds) for Leary… There was evidence, for example, of when famed Led Zeppelin…
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Visiting Troy Van Leeuwen | The Making of Stompbox Book
“I’d feel naked without a pedal board,” admits Troy Van Leeuwen. Of course,Van Leeuwen is famed for playing that reflects his status as a true stompbox obsessive – in particular, his six-string explosions in Queens of the Stone Age since the dawn of the 2000s, as well as his earlier innovative, atmospheric work in A Perfect…