Guitarist for Aerosmith, Joe Perry just revealed in a recent interview, that he always felt bad for coming into possession of a guitar effects pedal stolen from Jeff Beck in the early ’70s. However, he also explained how he was able to “adjust the karma” almost four decades after the fact.
Perry explained, “When we were just starting to make it in Aerosmith, our manager had been one of the big promoters in Boston and so we were able to get tickets and backstage passes to a Jeff Beck show, We had a road manager who was a great guy, but he just looked at the world a little different. Backstage, I didn’t talk to Jeff then, but he was using an orange Colorsound [pedal]. We’re driving home and our road manager pulls this orange Colorsound out of his jacket. He said, ‘Well, he had six of them so I just picked it up for you!'”
Perry said he was very annoyed by the situation and stated, “I said, ‘No, we don’t do that! That is not us.’ But we were still pretty hand-to-mouth, and back then getting equipment going back and forth across the pond was a big deal. What was I gonna do – ship it to him? I had it for about three weeks and then it got stolen from me. I was actually kind of happy to see it go. I always felt bad about it.”
Back in 2009, when Perry took part in Beck’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction he made reparations, “[M]e and Brad [Whitford] were some of the first guys to get some Klon Centaur pedals. We each had three or four of them … I took one of my original ones and after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame soundcheck I told Jeff the story and said, ‘I just want to adjust the karma here, so I want you to have this.'”
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