In the late 70s, I played in a band with Tiff Garcia, Jerry's older brother. At one point, rehearsal moved to Mickey Hart's "Rolling Thunder" barn, where both the bass player Larry and I did various tasks for Mickey(including engineering on recordings).
One day Mickey comes in, hands a box of various guitar pedals to Larry, and says, "This is a bunch of junk Jerry left here that he doesn't want. Give it to someone in Tiff's band." Funny thing was, I was standing right there, and Mickey knew I played with Tiff.
There was some distortion pedal in pieces that I still have, but also this Edwards. I used it with my Bakelite Richenbacher lap steel I own, and so it was a natural choice when I bought my pedal steel.
By itself, it is muddy as hell, but the Roland tuner I use acts as a buffer amp (somehow), and so tone is good/acceptable. It is a bit high in height, and the pedal travel is something to learn and get used to.
I've recently bought a Goodrich 6122R; waiting for delivery on that and will A/B them to see which I like better. But I'll always hold onto the Edwards; it's a brick that's almost indestructible, not to mention a good story.
Sorry about the sideways pics; that's how they loaded onto the site.
