I approached playing with this pedal with an equal amount of excitement and trepidation due my familiarity with the dimensional shifts caused by the Duh Remedial Fuzz pedal. When I started playing I heard a rich harmonic tapestry being weaved in front of me, layered a top this exquisite dirt. There is a harshness, but it is beautiful. I just started playing and was constantly and pleasantly surprised that no matter where I dialed this pedal it sounded good. The “gain” and “in” knobs work together in mysterious ways. I must’ve played for hours without realizing it. Things in my environment seemed rather normal, shockingly, until…
I played. “Interstellar Overdrive.” An Einstein-Rosen Bridge appeared, and I stepped through, obviously. I found myself on a viewing platform on a space station orbiting the black hole at Cygnus X 1 just shy of the accretion disc. Strangely, I was greeted by humans or were they? They were very familiar with the phenomenon that brought me there. Apparently it happened before some band called Rush was there in the 70s, though they arrived there via different gear. I was encouraged to play more and everyone was shocked to discover that the Joe Gore Porkolator’s rich harmonic sound was able to slow the descent of the super blue giant star HDE 226868 into the black hole. With the advanced science available to them, they were able to duplicate the effect. I played “Interstellar Overdrive” and was home again. I was left wondering why Joe Gore had named this pedal the way he did, then I remembered there are “Pigs In Space“
