If you're about to perform the White Album, 'Dark Side of the Moon,' 'Live at Leeds' or 'The Wall,' these pedals have got you covered.
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OnIf you're about to perform the White Album, 'Dark Side of the Moon,' 'Live at Leeds' or 'The Wall,' these pedals have got you covered.
On June 1[1], one of my bands is performing the Beatles' White Album[2]—officially known as The Beatles—in its entirety at a beautiful historic theater in Staten Island, New York[3]. After all, the classic album, which was released November 22, 1968, turns 50 this year.
I've been learning a few White Album tunes every weekend so I'm not stunned when actual rehearsals start up in April. It's helped me appreciate a few guitar parts and sounds I've ignored or forgotten about over the years, such as the jazzy chords and mini-solo in "Honey Pie," the timing and intervals in "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" and the "nasal" fuzz sound on "Happiness Is a Warm Gun."
Anyway, my bass-playing brother—who loves buying gear (and who loves when I buy gear)—sent me a link to the Jext Telez White Pedal[4], a square, white stompbox that is clearly inspired by the White Album—although it (very cleverly) doesn't mention the Beatles by name. It does, however, look exactly like the album cover (it even has four knobs for four Beatles and the word "Yoko" written on one side). Based on its looks and a few demo videos, I think it's kinda cool. And while it won't help me with John Lennon's Donovan-inspired finger-picking on "Julia," it certainly could nail a few of the album's fuzzy, overdriven sounds.
Because one of anything is never enough, I decided to search for other current, still-in-production pedals that were "inspired by" or "based on" guitar tones heard on other classic albums—and here's