Sure, we stopped by to check out all the cool new pedals that Electro-Harmonix was introducing at Summer NAMM, but nothing topped meeting and getting to interview the generous and genial Mike Matthews, company founder and (basically) inventor of the transistor distortion circuit.

For someone so approachable, it's amazing to hear about the artists and industry innovators Mike Matthews worked with and influenced when starting out in New York in the late 1960's -- a good time and place to be for rock.