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| Successful Musician's Career Lands in the Toilet! Eric Herbst, a singer - song writer - guitarist whose songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash and B.B. King has taken a new step in his career. He is the inventor of the Foot Flush. The Foot Flush, a retrofit foot pedal, makes your home toilet hands free. As a musician, he would play in bars and nightclubs with dirty bathrooms, Herbst didn't want to touch the toilet so he would flush with his foot. He knew there had to be a better way. So he invented the Foot Flush. "I had been thinking about the Foot Flush for years, " Herbst said. "After a gig, I grabbed a bass drum pedal and a piece of string and walked into my bathroom. My girlfriend said what are you doing? I tied one end of the string to the pedal and the other to the handle. When I stepped on the pedal it flushed. She said cool and the first Foot Flush was born." Herbst has spent two years turning the Foot Flush into the revolutionary new product it is today. It hooks up to your home toilet in less than 2 minutes without tools. Anyone can do it. Then you just step and flush. "It's not just a great idea anymore. It's a great product, " Herbst said. "It's been tested to 800, 000 flushes." Beside the obvious health advantages of the Foot Flush, Herbst has received rave reviews for his new device from customers with back problems, arthritis, MS and other physical difficulties. "While it's not like hearing the roar of the crowd, " says Herbst, "it makes me feel really good to know I've created something that is helping people." Mothers are also singing the Foot Flush praises. "It's great! It gets my kids to flush, " said Stephanie Kastenhuber of North Haven, CT. "It's great for potty training too." Herbst knows about kids. In 1992 he wrote and recorded the children's songs "The Good, The Bad and The Two Cookie Kid" with Country Music legend Johnny Cash and "The Rainy Day Blues" with the King of the Blues himself B.B. King. Herbst who once thought he was the only "Foot Flusher" now knows there are millions of them. A study by Impulse Research Corp found more than 40 percent of Americans using restrooms flush with their feet rather than touch anything with their hands. "That's over 82 million American Foot Flushers, " Herbst said. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |