Rabs Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 I am glad they are authentic... Everyone knows we must all play authentic... OR ELSE!!! 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 (edited) Thankyou Brian. Lose the beard huh? "Authentic" - what? Hendrix used a Schaller Univibe, a Fuzzface and wah modded by Roger Mayer who also made the Octavia. No doubt if he had lived he would have endorsed signature effects and guitars like everyone else. However "Authentic Hendrix" is just a brand name conjured up by his half-sister and it's stretching it more than a bit to apply it to these pedals, however they sound. IMO. I was a no.1 Hendrix fan and when he slipped away on Sept 18th 1970 - near 49 years ago - it broke my guitar-lovin' teenage heart. I still have the albums of course, and on CD as well, and it is generally agreed that "Are You Experienced " is both one of the top rock records of all time to this day, and one of the most extraordinary debut albums ever. No-one could have imagined or invented Jimi Hendrix. As he recedes from us in time he becomes more iconic, almost unbelievable, superhuman - how could such a person have existed and made such a huge impact in four short years? By now his image is a brand, a cliche ( the 'guitar arsonist') wheeled out to summon the spirit of....whatever is being marketed at the moment. Get on the gravy train. I also say that Fender never acknowledged that Hendrix was responsible for more Strats being sold than anyone else, for decades. Posthumously (as we all know) he has been treated incredibly badly and disrespectfully. The last time I got angry about it was when Tappy Wright (an ex-Animals roadie and Mike Jeffery toadie) wrote - and got published - a book claiming that Hendrix was murdered on the orders of Jeffery. It didn't matter, as it was so long after his death and so obviously complete garbage purely intended to help shift his rotten book - and Wright is now dead too. But it was nasty, dishonest, simply untrue and showed how low people will go to ride on the back of his reputation. I'm sure they are good pedals but...ffs.... "Authentic"? Not so. Edited July 24, 2019 by jdgm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted July 24, 2019 Author Share Posted July 24, 2019 Yeah.. It is annoying and wrong. I have to wonder how much of all this is actually down to Janie.... You would imagine Fender to be the first to offer a signature guitar... Maybe she wont let them or wants too much for it... Donno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 I'm just carping on really.....there have been many pedals which have been named after a Hendrix song or similar: Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe (and any other pedal with 'Voodoo' in the name) FoxRox Captain Coconut. Prescription Electronics Experience. Fulltone "69 Slight Return". Guild Foxey Lady. Etc etc. But these (and a previous run of Dunlop pedals) have his image on. Slightly different IMO. And yes, use of that image is all "down to Janie". At one stage the Experience Hendrix website was selling golf umbrellas and poker chips with his image on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Regardless of the association with Janie, these certainly never had a chance to be “authentic” Not only has Dunlop ALWAYS failed at this, but the enclosure size alone does not even allow for an accurate clone of any of these circuits being referenced For me this type of stuff is basically laughable and certainly not worth looking into, but it would be nice if somebody was able to make great music with these anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Ever notice that web sites like CNN and Fox News always find uses for the word "Shocking" in their head lines, But if you bite the bait on the hook, and click there, there's really nothing shocking going on at all. yea.. This is like that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 On 7/24/2019 at 3:58 PM, jdgm said: Thankyou Brian. Lose the beard huh? "Authentic" - what? Hendrix used a Schaller Univibe, a Fuzzface and wah modded by Roger Mayer who also made the Octavia. No doubt if he had lived he would have endorsed signature effects and guitars like everyone else. However "Authentic Hendrix" is just a brand name conjured up by his half-sister and it's stretching it more than a bit to apply it to these pedals, however they sound. IMO. I was a no.1 Hendrix fan and when he slipped away on Sept 18th 1970 - near 49 years ago - it broke my guitar-lovin' teenage heart. I still have the albums of course, and on CD as well, and it is generally agreed that "Are You Experienced " is both one of the top rock records of all time to this day, and one of the most extraordinary debut albums ever. No-one could have imagined or invented Jimi Hendrix. As he recedes from us in time he becomes more iconic, almost unbelievable, superhuman - how could such a person have existed and made such a huge impact in four short years? By now his image is a brand, a cliche ( the 'guitar arsonist') wheeled out to summon the spirit of....whatever is being marketed at the moment. Get on the gravy train. I also say that Fender never acknowledged that Hendrix was responsible for more Strats being sold than anyone else, for decades. Posthumously (as we all know) he has been treated incredibly badly and disrespectfully. The last time I got angry about it was when Tappy Wright (an ex-Animals roadie and Mike Jeffery toadie) wrote - and got published - a book claiming that Hendrix was murdered on the orders of Jeffery. It didn't matter, as it was so long after his death and so obviously complete garbage purely intended to help shift his rotten book - and Wright is now dead too. But it was nasty, dishonest, simply untrue and showed how low people will go to ride on the back of his reputation. I'm sure they are good pedals but...ffs.... "Authentic"? Not so. Really great , and accurate in my opinion, post jdgm. You.ve thought about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 On 7/24/2019 at 6:58 PM, jdgm said: Thankyou Brian. Lose the beard huh? "Authentic" - what? Hendrix used a Schaller Univibe, a Fuzzface and wah modded by Roger Mayer who also made the Octavia. No doubt if he had lived he would have endorsed signature effects and guitars like everyone else. However "Authentic Hendrix" is just a brand name conjured up by his half-sister and it's stretching it more than a bit to apply it to these pedals, however they sound. IMO. I was a no.1 Hendrix fan and when he slipped away on Sept 18th 1970 - near 49 years ago - it broke my guitar-lovin' teenage heart. I still have the albums of course, and on CD as well, and it is generally agreed that "Are You Experienced " is both one of the top rock records of all time to this day, and one of the most extraordinary debut albums ever. No-one could have imagined or invented Jimi Hendrix. As he recedes from us in time he becomes more iconic, almost unbelievable, superhuman - how could such a person have existed and made such a huge impact in four short years? By now his image is a brand, a cliche ( the 'guitar arsonist') wheeled out to summon the spirit of....whatever is being marketed at the moment. Get on the gravy train. I also say that Fender never acknowledged that Hendrix was responsible for more Strats being sold than anyone else, for decades. Posthumously (as we all know) he has been treated incredibly badly and disrespectfully. The last time I got angry about it was when Tappy Wright (an ex-Animals roadie and Mike Jeffery toadie) wrote - and got published - a book claiming that Hendrix was murdered on the orders of Jeffery. It didn't matter, as it was so long after his death and so obviously complete garbage purely intended to help shift his rotten book - and Wright is now dead too. But it was nasty, dishonest, simply untrue and showed how low people will go to ride on the back of his reputation. I'm sure they are good pedals but...ffs.... "Authentic"? Not so. I couldn't agree more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelT Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 The funny thing is that someone is going to think they are authentic clones of the pedals Hendrix used and by using them, they'll be able to sound like Hendrix. They just want to charge more for the pedals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 (edited) I don't know who to be more disappointed with, the sister or Dunlop. Pure exploitation... Edited July 26, 2019 by Big Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 They been milkin that corpse for decades. Guitar players keep buying it. Makes me laugh. rct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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