Last month, Roland and BOSS sponsored an intimate evening with The Police guitarist and GRAMMY-award winner Andy Summers at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles.
An audience of 200 guests, as well as online viewers via Facebook live, witnessed a Q&A session and multimedia presentation from the legendary guitarist.
“We’re so happy to support Andy Summers in celebration of his new solo album and are honored to be celebrating the 40th anniversary of BOSS compact pedals this year with him,” said Chris Halon, Roland Corporation U.S. vice president of marketing. “Andy, the BOSS family is grateful to you for entrusting our musical instruments to create such an extensive catalog of amazing music.”
Host and GRAMMY Foundation vice president Scott Goldman led a conversation with Summers about his career, songwriting, photography, and new album Triboluminescence. The evening with Summers also included an audience Q&A session, performances from Summers’ solo albums, and a multimedia presentation of Summers’ work as a photographer.
“If we go back in time to the very early days of the Police, I was genuinely interested in seeing how I could color the sound of the guitar, and make it really interesting for an hour and half that we were on stage,” Summers said. “That whole period was filled with color, not just barre chords and heavy fuzz. Roland were very good to me in those days, and I was using the Space Echos and their pedals, and all the guitar stuff they made. So things like ‘Walking on the Moon,’ that’s all BOSS pedal stuff.”
In addition, guitar journalist and editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine Mike Molenda presented Summers with Guitar Player’s Certified Legend Award for 2017.
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