“So much music has been inspired by the sound of these little boxes. When BOSS released a new pedal, you simply had to try it out”: How BOSS pedals shaped guitar culture

Gary Moore and some other guitarists with Boss pedals.

Half a century is a long time in rock ’n’ roll. Just as we’ve witnessed a thousand bands and genres blow up then burn out since 1973, scanning the archives reveals a long line of gear that launched to fanfare but left the faintest of thumbprints.

With no shortage of game-changing releases to its name – from the world’s first digital delay in the form of the DD-2 to the OD-1 pedal that single-handedly invented the overdrive concept – BOSS could have rested on past glories.