Editor’s Note | December 2018

Um, someone pinch me, please—I just finished interviewing perhaps the first electric guitar player who ever captured my imagination, inspired me to play, and changed my life. Mr. Peter Frampton, whose legendary use of the Heil Talk Box, made famous on his classic live blockbuster Frampton Comes Alive, will be featured in Stompbox: A Visual Exploration of the Guitar Pedal. What’s more, we’ve got the awesome Dan Epstein detailing the history of the Talk-Box on record in our “Pedal Playlist”: 10 Talk-Box Tunes, with links to listen to all these amazing tracks, from Jeff Beck and Joe Walsh to Frampton and David Gilmour (and yupe, even Weezer).

Frampton’s not the only living legend or young turk we’ve added to our extraordinary list of participants in the last few weeks, though. We had an amazing photo session with Texas virtuoso Eric Johnson (coming soon on our blog,) chatted with Andy Summers of The Police about his signature modulation pedals, even got post-punk producer and guitar iconoclast Steve Albini to talk about his Harmonic Percolator pedal, and Alice In Chains main man Jerry Cantrell to discuss his original Dunlop 95Q wah-wah (featured on classic cuts like “Rain When I Die”) and his own Dunlop signature JC95 Jerry Cantrell wah with our own Katherine Turman.

So check out all the other cool articles here at our Stompbox  blog: we’ve got a visit with our pal Jimmy Archey at Manhattan’s pedal emporium 30th Street Guitars, a hang with Living Colour’s Vernon Reid, a peek inside the creative cats who build pedals for Wrightsounds, and much more. Please drop us a line and let us know what you’d like to see included in our lineup, too.

Thanks for visiting, and stay a while and press some buttons n’ shit, will ya? You never what might happen . . .

-Roto