SOMEBODY once said that if you remember the ‘60s you weren’t really there, and this is clearly a problem if you have an interest in effects pedal history. The WEM-Rush Pepbox was, until recently, one of the great mysteries of UK fuzz, an area which is notoriously, um, fuzzy in its formative years. This photograph of John Lennon at Abbey Road in August 1966 ensures the place of the Pepbox in rock’n’roll history. Lennon stands with his back to the camera, his left hand lingering on a pedal, sitting on top of a Vox amp. You can’t see it clearly, but eventually it was identified as an early fuzz box, the WEMRush Pepbox.... Click on the title for more