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One reader’s 10-year Voodoo quest!

Thanks for the great article in the June 2021 issue concerning Eric Kirkland’s 20-year search for the Crossroads Jackson guitar. I really connected with this obsession, as I too have been on an epic quest to collect a rare series of Gibson Voodoo guitars over a period of 8.5 years.

I’ve always wanted a Gibson guitar in my collection, and for my 40th birthday I was thinking of getting a ’72 model for my year of birth; however, I found a Gibson Voodoo SG in a second-hand shop in Melbourne and something about it really intrigued me. The first Voodoo run was from 2003 to 2005, and the jet black color with red grain is very

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