“A more sophisticated version of a Bluesbreaker pedal”: Origin Effects Halcyon Blue Overdrive review … from Guitarworld

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“I wish we’d had bidding wars – a mad time dining out with everyone falling in love with us. But no; we had one dude with a small label who believed in us”: Gavin Rossdale on the sacred and absurd experience of making Bush’s Sixteen Stone … from Guitarworld

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“Even better than the original”: Danelectro’s Spring King was the cult reverb pedal you could kick – now it’s back, but not as you remember it … from Guitarworld

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