Property of Steve Parish

Thomas International Corp.

Cry Baby Wah Guitar Pedal Casing, ca. 1975

Model 95 – 910511 (9 x 2.5 x 3”), black metal casing with rubber foot pad and metal footswitch. S🙈erial number: 2070241. 

Jerry Garcia’s Cry Baby Wah Guitar Pedal Casing

“Big Steve” Parish: “This is the second wah that I bought for Jerry. I got his first one, the Hendrix model in 1970 and then this one in the mid-seventies to replace it. We put some of it into a pedal selector in the 1980’s, but this one was played at so many shows.”

The differences in vintage wah pedals were a result of the Vox company not being able to trademark the name “Crybaby,” and it was a free-for-all for🔜 manufacturers to produce their own versions and brand it the same as the original. However, the inductors in the Chicago Organ versions are by far the preferred choice for many guitarists, and no doubt sounded much like the first one Jerry got in 1970. By the early 1980s, Dunlop bought the rights from Chicago International. The present is likely one of the earlier USA made versions by🐻 the Chicago Organ Company, and made in Sepulveda, CA. By 1977, production of these units had moved to Chicago.