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THAT PICKUP

One of the many, many guitarists obsessed with Jeff Beck was a young Seymour Duncan. Here’s what he told this writer back in the 90s: “I first heard Jeff Beck in the summer of ’65, I was playing in a talent show with a local band. The local radio station played a recording of by The Yardbirds, their second hit. The unique guitar sound was from Jeff Beck. I tracked down many of their recordings and saw them performing on 60s TV shows such as, and.

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