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Stompboxtober

Stompboxtober Is here!
Stompboxtober Is here!

Check back each day at 11:00 am Central Starting Oct. 1 for your daily chance to win! Click below for today's giveaway.

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When Louis Cato received this Univox LP-style as a gift in high school, it needed some major TLC. A few years later, it got some practical upgrades and now makes regular appearances with Cato on The Late Show.

Photo by Scott Kowalchyk

The self-described “utility knife” played drums with John Scofield and Marcus Miller and spent time in the studio with Q-Tip before landing on Stephen Colbert’s show as a multi-instrumentalist member of the house band. Now, he’s taken over as the show’s guitar-wielding bandleader and is making his mark.

It’s a classic old-school-show-biz move: Bring out the band, introduce them one by one, and build up the song to its explosive beginning. It’s fun, dramatic, audiences love it, and that’s how every The Late Show with Stephen Colbert taping starts.

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In honor of the official launch of Dipped In Tone on the Premier Guitar Podcast Network, Mythos Pedals is giving you the chance to WIN a Cestus Treble Booster!

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We've got another 5 chances to WIN in today's Stompboxtober giveaway. Enter below to win a Ghost Drive from StewMac!

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You could be one of FIVE winners in today's Stompboxtober Giveaway! Enter below to win a StewMac Two Kings Boost Pedal kit!

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