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Seeing Stars

Thomas Nilsen made his first electric guitar pickup around 2007, although he’d previously been making a variety of acoustic pickups for a music store in Oslo. He formed Cream T in 2013 in the UK, and finally relocated here just last year. “I needed to expand, and I’d been getting a lot of attention in Norway because of my work with Billy,” he says. “I was working on a lot of new stuff and I couldn’t do that in Norway because of the expense of taxes, import/ export, and everything in Norway is so expensive – that was another factor in the

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