Yesterday (Dec. 6) would’ve been the late, nice Randy Rhoads’ 66th birthday, and to commemorate his legacy, his household teamed up with Dunlop for a model new guitar pedal that is coming in 2023.
The information of the brand new pedal, which has been named the Randy Rhoads Distortion Plus, got here from the guitarist’s sister Kathy Rhoads’ Instagram. She posted a collection of photographs of the Dunlop workforce working, and wrote a prolonged caption in regards to the challenge.
“We’ve been working with Jimi Dunlop and his team for quite some time now and we are happy to officially announce a future ‘Randy Rhoads Distortion Plus Pedal’!” she wrote.
“Jimi and his team recently came down to check out Randy’s pedal board. For the first time in over forty years it was intricately examined, filmed, recorded, and documented at ‘Musonia.’ They have patiently awaited its return from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Randy always referred to it as ‘The Chip Pan!’)”
Apparently, a few of the photographs in Kathy’s put up characteristic the identical location the place his Jackson guitars had been recreated as nicely. See the put up under.
There’s no affirmation of the pedal on the Dunlop web site as of but, so it is unclear when it’s going to be out there for buy or how a lot it’s going to value. We’ll reveal additional particulars as they change into out there.
Dunlop has collaborated with a ton of musicians for signature pedals in the previous, together with Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell, Tool’s Justin Chancellor, Slash and plenty of extra.
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