Road Cage

Mess around with this link. Randy California of Spirit was the first rock guy I knew of who used one, they were made in S. California. A surf-style effect as I heard it then, then Emmons who was out with Roger Miller in CA at the time picked one up - he came back to Nashville with the idea that he could ‘build’ a string section, string-by-string with this gizmo with eyes to capture more session work in Nashville studios (!).   Weird.   Of course, I heard Surfari’s music in it and was catching onto Led Zeppelin, Ritchie Blackmore, Cream in the mid sixties, etc. so I took it there. Then, Nashville got more involved and bought it out thru Sho-Bud although Emmons was out of that company for years at that point. Then, when Sho-Bud was going under, Gibson bought them out including the Boss Tone. I had been getting endorsement comps all the time from Sho-Bud then Gibson, then it went away. Till you came along!!   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(Spirit_album) Check out ‘Girl In Your Eye’. This was the use of Randy playing sitar which got me headed in the direction where you now find me!

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