The Most Legendary Fuzz Pedal You Don’t Know (Rush Pepbox)

For this week’s episode, we are super pumped to sit down with Lucy Rush, entrepreneur and daughter of pedal-builder Pepe Rush. Pepe Rush is the first pedal maker to create a distortion pedal in the United Kingdom, the Rush PepBox, which was released in 1965. You can think of Pepe as the British Ivor Arbiter and/or Revis Hobbs. He was a brilliant inventor, and it was a pleasure to talk about his work with Lucy.

*June 21, 2021 CORRECTION*
Since the release of the “Rush PepBox” JHS Show episode, we have found a few corrections: 1.) The Rush PepBox photograph at the 5:40 mark in the video is actually an image of a counterfeit PepBox. Ouch. 2.) The red 'Fuzzy' pedals mentioned in this interview have no connection to Pepe Rush whatsoever, and don't have any direct similarities to the PepBox other than the attack control, which is also labelled 'Pep'.

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"The Rush Pep Box" Jam
   • The Rush Pep Box  Demo | No Talking  

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