Because you are utterly incapable of doing your own legwork, Suffice it to say that "severing ties with the organization" is not really a realistic outcome.
WL mag: When did you decide to start a business making pedals?
JHS: It actually has a lot to do with ministry. I was a full time worship pastor in a church in Jackson, MS and we felt that God was calling us to IHOP in Kansas City. This was a year long process of transition and in that time my mods and custom built’s started to really gather a following and become a part time job. So I resigned, we moved and the pedal business exploded into a full time job. It felt like Divine plan.
WL mag: When someone hears “JHS” what do you want them to know about you as a company?
JHS: I think the industry is filled with a lot of the same things with different labels, and we’re trying to be different. We’ve found a niche where you either love them, hate them, or haven’t heard of them. I would like for people to identify us with quality products, excellent service and innovative ideas.
WL Mag: How does your background in worship ministry affect the pedal making business?
JHS: I’ve been a worship leader for about ten years now, and pedal making actually came as a random transition for me, I went from worship leading full time into the guitar industry. We love Kansas City, we love IHOP, we’ve just seen a shift in our ministry to the business side rather than directly inside the church. Right now we are getting directly involved in funding several mission works in the 10-40 window and JHS as a whole is really hitting it’s stride as far as business as a ministry.
So after reading that, please -- by all means -- continue to talk about how you're tired of the JHS hate on ILF and that you back them and that they're a great company and "fight me". Your constant state of ignorance and agitation is kind of adorbz.
Otherwise, kindly shut the fuck up when you don't know what you're talking about.
ps. IHOP isn't just a church, it's a weird cult with pretty extremist, right-wing tendencies, friendly with Republican presidential candidates like Rick Perry etc. That's where your money goes.
Och, it's just pedals and rock n roll and fun, isn't it. I mean, how many overdrive pedals can there really be?
I cordially invite you to fuck right off and let the rest of us talk about music like adults.- dubkitty
Strange Tales wrote:I like to imagine one day all the Blues Lawyers will get together and be like "Guys, even we have enough overdrives. Please make something else."
It's a nice dream.
but wouldn't that be like ILF collectively declaring "Allright. Allright! ALLRIGHT! Enough fuzzpedals already! Please make something else"?
After reading through this thread it has become apparent to me that a builders (and anyone they may come into contact with) religious/spiritual/geo-gender-political ideologies are very important to perspective buyers. As such I must confess, I employ monkeys to build my pedals but I don't believe in evolution.
WL mag: When did you decide to start a business making pedals?
JHS: It actually has a lot to do with ministry. I was a full time worship pastor in a church in Jackson, MS and we felt that God was calling us to IHOP in Kansas City.
Wow. I've been drunk and felt a strong need to go to Denny's late at night. But I have never heard
"God calling me" to go to the Internation House of Pancakes. IHOP must have changed their pancake
recipe recently (turning watery syrup into... syrupy syrup?).
I'm not very versed in the whole historical record of JHS pedal discussions... but is it common
knowledge that their name is an abbreviation for the name "Jesus"?
Instead of "Crayon" this pedal should be called "Christogram".
SoaringTortoise wrote:After reading through this thread it has become apparent to me that a builders (and anyone they may come into contact with) religious/spiritual/geo-gender-political ideologies are very important to perspective buyers. As such I must confess, I employ monkeys to build my pedals but I don't believe in evolution.
I think the insinuation that people dislike a company exclusively for its religiosity is relatively insulting to anyone who puts a modicum of thought into where their money goes when it's spent, particularly when it comes from people who prove themselves to be gratuitously oblivious to the facts that are available to them.
I don't like idiots, and I don't like idiots who are inescapably loud with their drooling. Sorry if that offends anyone.
Strange Tales wrote:I like to imagine one day all the Blues Lawyers will get together and be like "Guys, even we have enough overdrives. Please make something else."
It's a nice dream.
It would entail someone going back in time and introducing Stevie Ray Vaughan or which ever other guitar hero that these types prop themselves up on to some wild and crazy new thing. Not going to happen, there's a particular voice & direction that is cast in history and what we see here is the swarm of gnats trying to recreate something similar as cheaply as possible.
Not saying that the weekend warriors aren't going to accidentally open a portal to some universe of cool, just saying that we probably won't see it through the field of smelly cash cows that comprise the current state of things.
It's probably just the weirdo speaking, but the aspect of crayons in the design seems to me like a put down to the end user. Unless, of course, crayons have suddenly been embraced as a tool with artistic merit.
crochambeau wrote:
It's probably just the weirdo speaking, but the aspect of crayons in the design seems to me like a put down to the end user. Unless, of course, crayons have suddenly been embraced as a tool with artistic merit.
I don't know. Crayons, like pens or pencils or markers, are just tools. It's all about how you use them that counts.
crochambeau wrote:
It's probably just the weirdo speaking, but the aspect of crayons in the design seems to me like a put down to the end user. Unless, of course, crayons have suddenly been embraced as a tool with artistic merit.
I don't know. Crayons, like pens or pencils or markers, are just tools. It's all about how you use them that counts.
Marvelous point. Is that graphic crayon based? It's quite fetching.
