21 Companies Team Up For a Pedal Raffle Benefiting Black Lives Organizations

Bandmemes and She Shreds team up with 21 companies for a massive pedal raffle to benefit three organizations fighting for systemic racial justice.

June 9, 2020

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Bandmemes has created a fundraising raffle for Black lives with prizes from a growing list of boutique pedal companies. Over 18 businesses (and growing) have contributed pedals to be won, some of which are limited edition and others are throwing in t-shirts with their pedals, too.

Update & Winners:

Thanks to all of your amazing donations we raised $56,455 for Black Lives Matters, Critical Resistance, and The Bail Project. Special shoutout to Bandmemes for being great and sorting through endless emails and adding up all of your receipts. That must’ve really sucked lol. CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS THOUGH! NOW KEEP DONATING AND SUPPORT BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES.

1. Abominable Electronics toke machine – Hans Michel
2. Adventure audio fuzz Peaks II – Amber Johnson
3. AWOL Virus – Clay Nielson
4. Benson preamp – Leonard Guerra
5. Bookworm diving Belles – Matthew Torbett
6. Caroline Hawaiian Pizza – Matt Herd
7. Chase Bliss Audio “JOAL” MOOD – Sean Vora
8. Chase Bliss Audio Preamp MKII – Cal Kehoe
9. Cooper fx Arcades – Greg Wolk
10. Coppersound Captain Hook – Aubrey Haddard
11. Death by audio Rooms – John Mongonia
12. Dr Scientist Dusk – Stephanie Gross
13. Electronic Audio Experiments Eldritch Blast – Emerald Chan
14. Floating Forest Dream Eater Deluxe – Hannah Rainey
15. Fuzzrocious BLM Demon – Justin Guay
16. Meris Ottobit Jr – Gianni Aiello
17. Old Blood Noise Endeavors MINIM – Tara Frye
18. Pelican Noiseworks – Isobel McMahon
19. Pladesk Elektrisk Fabrikat – Jen Steinbeck
20. Quiet Theory Prelude – Leticia Rocha
21. smallsound/bigsound Mini – Craig Schechter
22. Spruce Effects Gale – David Fried
23. TOMKAT Cloudy – Kimi Yamamoto
24. ZVEX Fuzz Factory 7 – Ben Lainer

How To Enter

Update: This Raffle is officially closed but please still consider making a donation.

The raffle will run 2 weeks and winners will be updated on this page on Tuesday, June 23rd. Open to international participants.
Make a minumum donation of $10 USD to one of the organizations below.
Note: entry will only be valid if the donation is made to the organizations listed here
If you donate at least $10 to multiple charities (ie $10 to BLM, $10 to The Bail Project) that counts as multiple entries.
Pedals will be won individually.
Your receipt is your raffle ticket. Please forward your donation receipt(s) as well as your top 5 pedal wishlist to [email protected]

Hello! I donated to all three charities, but I could not let me forward the receipts to [email protected]. Gmail told me “Address not found. Your message was not delivered.” How should I forward my receipts?
Comment by Ellis Graham on June 11, 2020 at 8:47 pm
Sorry about that I think I have it figured out now. I’m not very good with computers obviously. Thank you again!
Comment by Ellis Graham on June 12, 2020 at 12:08 am
Super awesome to see so many companies coming together for a good cause. Incredible effect pedals here, best of luck to everyone entering the raffle. Let’s make some music!
Comment by Soundtrack Home on June 13, 2020 at 9:44 pm
Let’s make some music!
Comment by granny on June 16, 2020 at 1:01 am
Hi! Should I wait for any confirmation of my entry via e-mail reply? Or is it just as is?
Comment by Vlad on June 17, 2020 at 1:44 pm
With all due respect…. As an invisible Black female guitarist who has been consistently overlooked by your publication to contribute articles and videos, it’s a bit condescending to see “action” in the form of corralling your readership to give money to organizations without the effort of actually doing the work to learn why this is a big problem in the first place. Secondly… I can’t help but notice one of the pedals up for grabs is characterized as “Demon” with BLM Handpainted on it: #15 Fuzzrocious Pedals: Demon (BLM Handpainted) which further emphasizes how tone-deaf this initiative is despite how well meaning it is intended. She Shreds… I love what you folkx intend to do with all of this, but maybe I should exit my committal to your plight. After all, I’ll still be invisible.
Comment by Taylor on June 19, 2020 at 2:41 pm
Hey Taylor,

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. Sorry we didn’t respond sooner, we are still figuring out the ins and outs of our new site 🙂 That said, as much detail as we attempt to put into our work we know that we aren’t always going to do things 100% as we intend them and are always moving forward with the interest of growing and evolving. Really appreciate your respectful feedback and we will 100% be taking it into account and action. No pressure but if you don’t mind we would love to send you something for your labor spent articulating this to us. We will send you an email! Ours is [email protected] in case you’d like to reach out to us for any reason <3

Love and Respect to you! - She Shreds Team
Comment by She Shreds on June 25, 2020 at 4:25 pm
I forwarded my receipts about a week ago to the email address provided and haven’t gotten any confirmation, despite asking for one. I know everyone is busy during these crazy times.. the contest ends tomorrow, I was just hoping to get some kind of assurance that my entries are in.
Thanks for doing this, everyone. Hope you’re all well.
Comment by Alex on June 22, 2020 at 12:16 pm
Re: Taylor
Can you please elaborate on what you find tone deaf about the name of the fuzzrocious demon with the fuzzrocious demon with BLM colorway? Based on the rest of your comment I think we probably have more in common politically than not but this seems like a strange and unnecessary thing to take offense to. Can you (or anyone here) tell me if Im missing something? As far as I know the people at fuzzrocious are good folks. They’ve been kind to me in the past, have great customer service and make awesome pedals.
Comment by Jim on June 22, 2020 at 9:46 pm
Yes I think we are politically all on the same page here. But isn’t it quite obvious how tone deaf the naming of this pedal is? Black people have been DEMONIZED forever in this country and this “pro” black pedal is called DEMON. How did they think this wouldn’t be offensive?
Comment by Nyle on June 23, 2020 at 9:00 am
Also chiming in on the lack of follow up, sent my receipts in a while ago and didn’t ever receive a confirmation that they’d been accepted. Not the biggest thing in the world – but would like to know that I didn’t miss the raffle. Thanks!
Comment by Mike on June 23, 2020 at 9:18 am
This is so awesome. Thank you all for putting it together!!
Comment by Dustin Babitzke on June 23, 2020 at 1:37 pm
Re:nyle/taylor
I’m pretty sure the naming of this pedal happened before and independently of this raffle or any context that would link the term ‘demon’ to black folks. They donated a popular product to a charity raffle. You’re saying the word demon is off limits for a company that makes guitar pedals for metal musicians. Come on yall thats a huge stretch. This is what you’re focussing on while we have actual racist police murdering us with impunity and a white supremacist president who unironically advises people to inject lysol.
Comment by Jim on June 23, 2020 at 10:54 pm
Jim. I am white. I am assuming you are white as well. Listen to black people. This is not my one piece of activism I am focusing on. I was simply trying to help you understand how a black female artist such as Taylor could be confused and upset by the name of this pedal paired with the BLM paint job. Yes there are way bigger problems but doesn’t this also speak to a larger issue? White people need to listen to black people and not tell them when their feelings make sense or not.
Comment by Nyle on June 24, 2020 at 7:55 am
Did the give away happen?

I for one think just slapping BLM on any old existing product is a bit reckless/opportunistic (even a pedal that isn’t named after something evil). Cool if you wanna have proceeds go to good organizations, but be respectful/intelligent with it.

How do we find your music, Taylor?
Comment by Willytypetype on June 24, 2020 at 8:51 am
…Are the winners going to be posted?
Comment by Sheri on June 24, 2020 at 3:39 pm