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rfurtkamp wrote:

Jesus Was a Robot wrote:God some of you guys are old.

Ur mom's so old she was servicing Phoencian sailors who did her by the trireme-full.

Seance wrote:My first pedal was an Amdek PHK-100 Phaser and it was given to me as a gift in the 1980s.

Here are the too many details:

When I was 12 I lived in Japan and one night one of my father's colleagues invited us to dinner. My father
mentioned that I liked music and playing guitar. The guy spoke very little English and I spoke almost
no Japanese, but he asked me what bands I was into and I said Hendrix, Pink Floyd, etc. and he sat
me down in front of this large TV. He had a laserdisc of The Wall and the subwoofer bass rumble
was actually connected to a seat pad that you sat on so that you felt the bass rumble. It was cool.

He then asked me if I'd heard of Ry Cooder and said that if I liked Pink Floyd, then maybe I'd like The
Alan Parsons Project. A few days after this dinner party he gave my father about six cassette tapes
with albums by Ry Cooder and The Allan Parsons Project and Billy Squier. Which was very kind.

But back to the dinner itself.... after talking about bands, he wanted to show me his guitar gear.

So he had this area in his small Tokyo apartment with a metric shit-ton of guitars and guitar pedals.
He had dozens and dozens of pedals. I was 12 at the time and didn't fully understand how
different pedals made different sounds. So unfortunately I was like an alien in a candy store. I didn't
know enough to test out "rare" things, but he wanted to "jam" and so we we both got on guitars and
he patiently tried to play along to the awkward rudiments of my playing.

One pedal he let me try was some sort of fuzz in a treadle enclosure that had like four stomp switches on it
that I couldn't manage to get anything but feedback out of. He had a double-neck 12- & 6-string guitar.

And then at the end of the evening he laid out about 8 Amdek pedals and asked me to choose which
one I wanted to have. My father and stepmother protested that this was too generous (they had brought
a gift for him hosting us for dinner, but nothing comparable to a guitar pedal) but the guy was adamant.
I said that I'd love to have the fuzz in a treadle because I didn't understand what it did or how it worked,
but he politely indicated that the fuzz pedal was not on offer. I thanked him profusely for his kindness
and chose the phaser.

At that time I didn't even fully understand what the different effect types were or what they did...
but I had liked the psychedelic wash of the phaser, and so I chose that.
I still have the pedal. It is a bit rough around the edges, but it still works.

oldangelmidnight wrote: I love that story. It's like a subplot from some indie comedy.

rfurtkamp wrote:

Jesus Was a Robot wrote:God some of you guys are old.

Ur mom's so old she was servicing Phoencian sailors who did her by the trireme-full.

Aghartha wrote:I hope so, maybe someone out there has it on their board now and is enjoying it.