High School was a funny old place, wasn't it? A veritable smorgasbord of society, slowly developing out of it's own infancy, one awkward term at a time. You had everyone. The jocks, the pretty ones, the nerds and the freaks. All ethnicities, social and economic back grounds, properly represented. Then you had the cool kid. You know, the guy that rode a motorbike and...
Everything in the eighties was just cooler wasn't it? MTV allowed to us to finally see the musicians we'd been listening to for years, our governments encouraged us to smoke indoors and Michael J Fox gave the performance of a lifetime, driving a terrible car into cinematic legend. Yep. They really were great days...and thats before we get onto the world of guitars!
"Cool" is a funny old concept isn't it? Who decides what's cool? No one, right? Did somebody have to explain to you that, the first time you clapped eyes on a '66 Fastback Mustang, it was cool? No, you just knew. Much like how you just knew that Tony and his mates from Sabbath were as cool as they come, all long hair and heavy riffs for days...
You can just tell, when something is really loved can't you? Be it a puppy, the fourth and fifth instalments of a nine part space saga or something much cooler than those last two things, like a range of guitar pedals. There's just something about them that let's you know that a large amount of time and energy has been spent, sweating the details, to ensure they are as good as they can possibly be...
Have you ever been abroad, exploring a new country and stumbled across one of those impossibly small local eateries, that only serves one thing? You know, the kind of place that only has one dish on the menu but you'd be damned if that one option wasn't the best thing you'd ever put in your mouth? With us so far? Well Stomp Under Foot is that restaurant but for pedals...