a Hot Cakes but I don’t have a Prunes and and then I got to collaborate with him. Robert is like sometimes songwriting with other people
Custard. It’s like, am I going to get to a point like a pedal grandpa to me, he’s so helpful, he’s is better, and that’s how it is with pedals. I’m
here I can’t deal with not having everything? amazing and inspirational. only good at certain things, and the best part
I don’t know. Is that a hoarder or is that a
collector? That’s the question.
of the collaboration process is that you get to
Then there’s Boss, I am the biggest Boss fan collaborate with someone who is really good at
ever and getting to do that was crazy. I’ve told something you’re not, and I think in every one
[WM] You’ve done some great collaborations people that it’s like, I’m out on the playground of those cases that shows. It made for really
with Milkman and Boss, two great companies shooting some basketball, and Michael Jordan good products.
at seemingly opposite ends of the boutique and comes up and says I can join the ’96 Chicago mass-produced spectrum. Can you compare Bulls. That’s what that felt like, stupid!
and contrast these two experiences and the
resulting pedals?
[WM] Speaking of collaborations, the AT+ is
the second generation of the Andy Timmons
Then there’s Milkman… a friend, an amazing signature pedal. Considering he was literally the
amp designer, and we did a collaboration there. poster boy for Mesa-Boogie, that’s a pretty tall
[Josh] And I did one Robert Keeley, which They’re all three very different for me. I think the order. As I recall that story got its start at the
was the first collaboration I ever did – we did two most similar are Boss and Keeley because Guitar Sanctuary in Texas. Can you fill in the
a pedal. I think this is finally visible in the vlog. it was like working with heroes. And then Tim, blanks?
I think when you’re doing a company, people just an awesome friend who I feel is brilliant in don’t know you, they know your pedals. I didn’t his own right, we just did this thing because he [Josh] Andy lives in McKinney Texas and
wake up one day and have the attitude that wanted this product that didn’t exist, and I said shops there. The store is awesome and Brian
every pedal is my favorite pedal, I have always that I would want that too, so I would make it is the kind of dude where you walk in and say,
been this way. I really do love everyone’s work, for him. “Hey I want a distortion….” and he’ll be like,
and I love some people more than others, I just
“Tell me about it.” He’s going to find the things
connect to them. Robert Keeley for me was big I think the Boss thing, because it’s Boss, sold he knows you’ll like and put them on a platter
because I fixed a broken Boss pedal that was the most. But I don’t look at any one of them in front of you. So Andy Timmons walks in
Keeley-modded and went down the rabbit hole and think it’s my favorite, I think they’re all so one day, and he knew right off the bat Andy
of figuring out why his mod sounded different, valuable and I like collaboration. You know it’s was going to like the Angry Charlie. Andy gets
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