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
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Baby: The Pedal That Rocks” video below
February 2019
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