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I'm quite sure that jmi reissue products started after that whole story

But I might be mistaken

I dunno. Giles is not my friend by any means so I don't care much

What I care about is the fact that people have short memory and still keeping buying crap from those two gizzas

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sinner wrote:
biliousfrog wrote:
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beedotman wrote:[ Image ]
What da... biatch, what the fuck is that?!?
That is Nitro, featuring the ridiculous show-off Michael Angelo Batio [smilie=rlp_smilie_207.gif]
Not a clue what's that still. I'm guessing it's 80's kind of thing

I smell YMCA full flavour in some measure
'nitro', presumably an abbreviation for 'nitrogen', commonly available in considerable quantities in bullshit. they seem to be part of that species of brainless widdly-guitar-shred-shite that gives socially-retarded-perm-casualties-with-a-spinal-tap-fixation a bad name.
most of those deluded chancers are corpse-fucking and shitting on the memory of the new york dolls, who stood for something most perm-rockers aren't mentally equipped to begin to understand; bubblegum-rock-as-antiprog, genuine-fakery, etc.

have read that bolan used the shatterbox in his early days. a member here ('Trex' or someone) posted this clip on the shatterbox thread a while ago.

i liked the song (why i remembered it) but wasn't impressed by the fuzz. but in bolan's hands it doesn't sound anywhere near as completely useless as the one in the clip. i can get more meaningful tone out of my washing machine than he gets out of that redundant door stop.
maybe it's a joke. the reviewer did the review in good faith with a decent pedal then a mischievous friend dubbed that gatey-starved tone-suckfest on afterwards and posted it on yt for his stag night. if so, on that level, it's a good joke.

btw did he say "buttery fuzz" or "buggery fuzz"? it's hard to hear with that horrible tin spitting sweetcorn in the background...

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sinner wrote:What I care about is the fact that people have short memory and still keeping buying crap from those two gizzas
You don't need a long memory with the internet. I suspect the whole point of "The British Pedal Company" is to put some distance between 'em and the Google results.

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tabbycat wrote:('Trex' or someone) posted this clip...
Yeah, I know him - bit of a lard arse.

Sorry.

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http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/18 ... al-company

Well well well, what a surprise

Harrison's strikes again

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Richard and Justin Harrison are the father and son. People behind the music ground

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -plot.html
beedotman wrote:The Home Of Fuzz Since 1966 :slap:
Come on...
The MG combo's oldman is 67 now. So it looks like he started fuzz revolution at age of 19

Very talented young man as he proved

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sinner wrote:http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/18 ... al-company

Well well well, what a surprise

Harrison's strikes again
Cherchez les dodgy cunts.

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boblob wrote:
sinner wrote:http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/18 ... al-company

Well well well, what a surprise

Harrison's strikes again
Cherchez les dodgy cunts.
My thoughts exactly!

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Just to recap this thread:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -plot.html
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/18621/difference-between-jmi-and-british-pedal-company wrote:British Pedal Company's contact telephone number - 01977 620851
A Google search for that number brings up Rockers Guitars and Justin Harrison.
Rockers Guitars Ltd has one director, a Mrs Samantha Jane Harrison.
http://companycheck.co.uk/director/912130367

Oddly enough she was the director of the Rock of Ages Evangelical Church in Doncaster. Presumably she hasn't got the ability to take five loaves and two fish and turn them into a batch of vintage guitars (bought honest, guv'nor, nothing shady here etc).


British Pedal Company isn't really a company, it's just a store front. UK is remarkable in the sense that all accounting records are freely available. Rocker Guitars Inc. was created on May 4th 2011 with Samantha Harrison as director. She was born in 1970, so probably the daughter/sister. This was half a year before the convictions for theft in February 2012.
Director of Rocker Guitars Inc. S. Harrison
Director of Rocker Guitars Inc. S. Harrison
Of course Instagram targeted me as a pedal nerd and showed me these reissue germanium transistors: - are these top hat types repotted to look like OC transistors? Or are they new production? If so, why stop building stompboxes and get rich just selling these...

They were caught for faking vintage Marshall amps and even a Dumble, so this should be quite easy and innocent... no?




Here are the records for Rocker Guitars:
https://find-and-update.company-informa ... ng-history
Daily Mail article about the conviction: (PDF with all writing errors corrected!)

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