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Editor’s Note | August 2020
Greetings, Stompbox fans. This has certainly been a weird and challenging summer so far, with good news often in sadly short supply. So hopefully it’ll bring a smile to your face when I inform you that, after years spent scaling Stompbox Mountain, we have finally reached our summit! It’s been a long, hard slog to…
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Editor’s Note | May 2020
Greetings, Stompbox fans. The world has changed quite a bit since we last touched base with you, and we hope you’ve all been doing okay through this Covid-19 crisis—staying healthy, staying home (if you can), staying reasonably sane, and maybe even finding a bit of solace, distraction and uplift in some great music. This unwelcome…
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New Recruits | Whitney Petty & Josh Scott
Please welcome our new Stompbox recruits! When you’re involved in a long-term project like this one, you sometimes need a little new blood to push you to the finish line — and we are buzzing harder than a Burns Buzzaround over the addition of two new recruits to the Stompbox cause. One is Whitney Petty, guitarist extraordinaire…
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Editor’s Note | December 2019
Greetings, Stompbox fans! The holiday season always conjures up nostalgic feelings and memories, which may be why I suddenly decided to dig my White Sands Orange Sunshine pedal out of storage on a day when I should have been unpacking our Christmas decorations. Purchased in December 1993 as a Christmas present to myself, the Orange…
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Editor’s Note | October 2019
Greetings, Stompbox fans! October is here, which means it’s time to carve up a pumpkin or two, pull those Halloween decorations out of storage, and — of course — cue up some dark and stormy sounds. Black Sabbath’s self-titled first album always sounds amazing, but it sounds even better at this time of year,…
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Editor’s Note | September 2019
Greetings, Stompbox fans! I’ve been pulling out my Funkadelic LPs these past few days, in honor of the passing of artist Pedro Bell. Bell (or “Sir Lleb,” as he was known among the Funkateers) was perhaps the great unsung hero of P-Funk; he never played a note on any of their records, but his retina-searing…
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Editor’s Note | August 2019
Greetings, Stompbox fans! Here we are at the beginning of August, and here I am with two songs constantly vying for the top spot in my brain: War’s “Summer,” because this is indeed “my time of year,” and David Bowie’s “Changes,” because change is definitely in the air. The biggest change, at least pertaining to…
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Editor’s Note | April 2019
You know you’re having a good week when you have deep discussions with Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, Steel Panther’s Satchel, Blur’s Graham Coxon, and the inimitable Jack White all within a couple of days, but that’s exactly what went down in my end of Stompbox Book world in the last week of March. What’s more, our…
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Editor’s Note | March 2019
“Yeah, some call me the Fuzz Lord,” laughingly shrugs Rival Sons guitarist Scott Holiday during our rollicking hour-plus interview last week. The California-bred band, who’ve become superstars in Europe and now find themselves hitting the charts in the US with their new Atlantic album Feral Roots, certainly do deliver everything you’d expect from high priests…
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Editor’s Note | February 2019
If one needed any further indication of how fast the stompbox industry has grown, one need look no further than this year’s NAMM Show in Anaheim, California in late January. NAMM, for the uninitiated, stands for “National Association of Music Merchants,” or, in laymen’s terms, virtually everyone who manufactures, distributes, markets, sells or deals in…