Worship Musician February 2019 | Page 92

Photo Courtesy of Dunlop Mnaufacturing Remembering Jim Dunlop (1936-2019) Be it a Tortex pick, MXR stomp box, or Cry contractor before his retirement and passing. In the coming years Jim went on to Baby Wah, chances are that someone on your I still remember the day he took me down to revolutionize the accessories business with worship team used a Dunlop Manufacturing the job site he was working on for a company inventions like the Tortex pick. As crazy as it product this past Sunday. A finite number of called Dymo, where he introduced me to sounds, before Tortex, guitar players had a companies have had the scope of influence an employee there he’d befriended. As you choice of thin, medium, or heavy picks and that the Dunlop family of products have on probably guessed, his friend was Jim Dunlop. that was pretty much it. From slides to polish, music and the players who make it. When I Jim excitedly queried me about my interest in if there’s a guitar accessory, Dunlop probably heard about the passing of Jim Dunlop Sr., I the guitar and give me a capo, the first product makes it, and does so with excellence. In was and remain profoundly sad, as this story Dunlop manufactured. I still have the capo and addition to bringing the MXR brand back to has a very personal side for me. treasure the memory of the time and interest life, Dunlop also purchased the rights and Jim took in my guitar playing, even though I machinery to produce the Cry Baby wah wah had yet to reach my teens. pedal. Watching any segments of the ”Cry I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where my Step-father worked as a general 92 Baby: The Pedal That Rocks” video below February 2019 Subscribe for Free...