Johnny Marr’s Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal

Johnny Marr used a Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal distortion pedal on the Smiths song “London” officially released in 1987, as the B-side of “Shoplifters Of The World, Unite”.

The idea of having distortion – I was like no, the Pistols have done that as well as you can do it. Anything beyond that was metal or something like that. But I thought If I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna go big – I think I may have used the HM-2 on that.

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