RUSH PEPBOX

By Pepe Rush:

The idea for the design came to me when I was working in my factory in Soho, London building Bass and Public Address equipment for some of the biggest groups in the middle 60’s. in about 1965 a guitarist from one of the big groups came in and said he had heard an American Recording with a distorted sounding guitar and it sounded great.

I thought about it and a couple of days later came up with the design for what was to become the RUSH PEPBOX. I built a prototype using germanium transistors and tried it through one of the amps we were building, and it sounded distorted, just what I had been working so hard to design out of our amplifiers. I sold quite a few. The Beatles, The Shadows and various other big groups of the time had them and they were used on a number of recordings. There is a picture of John Lennon with one at Abby Road Studios.