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<blockquote data-quote="R_J_K75" data-source="post: 9068428" data-attributes="member: 6921294">Thats why I started this thread, to get know each other outside of the RPG side of things and share cool stories like that. I knew I had the details of the story wrong but was on the right track. A lot of people dont realize that guitar players relied on their guitar tech or local electronics engineer at the guitar store to make their pedals. Yes some where commercially available but few and far between. Page, Clapton, Townsend got what they could or had it made or made it themselves. TEC, EHX MXR, the more well-known pedal companies have been around a long time. But Eddie Van Halen changed the game, I'm not an Uber fan but I can totally respect his contribution to the innovation of guitar/hardware creation and his musicality. Im a Randy Rhoads fan myself. There's a great story where Edward went into a board room with 10-12 investors who were asking why the EVH line of guitars where falling apart in shipping? I think thats when they were owned by Ernie Ball. Ed walks into the room and proceeds to disassemble a guitar he pulled off the line. Didn't say a word for the hour or two that it took him to take the entire guitar apart and put it back together after which he proceeds to throw it against a wall, picks it up, strums a chord and it still in tune. He said. &quot;You're guitars are falling apart in shipping because your QC sucks and your technicians are incompetent&quot;, Fix it or I'm taking my name off the brand.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="R_J_K75, post: 9068428, member: 6921294"] Thats why I started this thread, to get know each other outside of the RPG side of things and share cool stories like that. I knew I had the details of the story wrong but was on the right track. A lot of people dont realize that guitar players relied on their guitar tech or local electronics engineer at the guitar store to make their pedals. Yes some where commercially available but few and far between. Page, Clapton, Townsend got what they could or had it made or made it themselves. TEC, EHX MXR, the more well-known pedal companies have been around a long time. But Eddie Van Halen changed the game, I'm not an Uber fan but I can totally respect his contribution to the innovation of guitar/hardware creation and his musicality. Im a Randy Rhoads fan myself. There's a great story where Edward went into a board room with 10-12 investors who were asking why the EVH line of guitars where falling apart in shipping? I think thats when they were owned by Ernie Ball. Ed walks into the room and proceeds to disassemble a guitar he pulled off the line. Didn't say a word for the hour or two that it took him to take the entire guitar apart and put it back together after which he proceeds to throw it against a wall, picks it up, strums a chord and it still in tune. He said. "You're guitars are falling apart in shipping because your QC sucks and your technicians are incompetent", Fix it or I'm taking my name off the brand. [/QUOTE]

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