The Making of 10cc's "I'm Not in Love"

Undertoad · 09-19-2014, 09:18 AM

Well I ran the radio station in college and then my friends ran it, and then my friends, and then my friends... basically my entire life has been the college radio station...

It was 1988 and we were all big Church fans and Marty had put out this solo record where he used a Gizmo! So I told my friends all about it - hey there's this weird old guitar effect he used, and I have one!

And they wound up meeting the band at some sort of press/radio thingie, and asked Marty about it, and he told them he was very enthusiastic, but his Gizmo had died. So I called up their management and explained that I had this guitar thingie that Marty would surely want to buy. This led to us all going to their NYC show, which was just as "Milky Way" was peaking, and I met Marty afterwards and sold him the rig.

glatt · 09-19-2014, 09:41 AM

That's cool!

I mean, it's a very normal sounding story, and it's not like you were selling it to Paul McCartney or somebody like that, but still. You supplied a famous musician with a rare instrument he needed and that he probably used a fair amount afterwards.

09-19-2014, 09:18 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Well I ran the radio station in college and then my friends ran it, and then my friends, and then my friends... basically my entire life has been the college radio station... It was 1988 and we were all big Church fans and Marty had put out this solo record where he used a Gizmo! So I told my friends all about it - hey there's this weird old guitar effect he used, and I have one! And they wound up meeting the band at some sort of press/radio thingie, and asked Marty about it, and he told them he was very enthusiastic, but his Gizmo had died. So I called up their management and explained that I had this guitar thingie that Marty would surely want to buy. This led to us all going to their NYC show, which was just as "Milky Way" was peaking, and I met Marty afterwards and sold him the rig.

09-19-2014, 09:41 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That's cool! I mean, it's a very normal sounding story, and it's not like you were selling it to Paul McCartney or somebody like that, but still. You supplied a famous musician with a rare instrument he needed and that he probably used a fair amount afterwards.

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