This is Seymour Duncan, a legend in his own right. After covering just about all the square footage at the NAMM show and imbibing of as many free hors d’oeuvres and shots as I could bear, I bumped into Seymour, the legendary maker of pickups and other sound-refracting devices for the likes of Jeff Beck, Yngwie Malmsteen and my beloved compadre Roy Buchanan …
This one’s Roy Buchanan in the glory days with pickup-meister Seymour Duncan. Seymour made his luthier’s bones via the apprentice route in Leo Fender’s factory in Fullerton. He later applied his craft secrets to the mojo of Tele-masters like Roy Buchanan and Jeff Beck. Seymour will be featured in the full-on “director’s cut” documentary version of “Roy Buchanan Telly Talk.”
The photo is featured in Noe the G’s teaser trailer for the Roy Buchanan Telly Talk DVD here …
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ggDm3wh3IM
I joined Seymour as he was setting out to sample the Tennesee soul stew of …
… Legendary Roots/Blues Guitarist, Grammy Award-winning Producer Pete Anderson, who was holding forth at the lobby of the Hilton Hotel across the way.
You could do worse than to check out my little Youtube report here:
Meandering at NAMM 2012 – Pete Anderson Live
Do check out these links for some highly entertaining and elucidating footage about Seymour:
OK, a lot of groovy coincidences at the NAMM Show in Anaheim yesterday. I’m meandering around the floor, as is my wont, checking out various and sundry devices, maestros, hucksters and weirdos. The usual menagerie of sound and bupkiss.
Back in the day when I was the editor of a national guitar rag, this was a bi-yearly perambulation – summertime they used to hold them in Chicago, but the perk-like excursion for a New York City boy was mos’ def the one in January.
So in the spirit of old times I embarked once more into the Orange County breech.
On the advice of Seymour, I went to check out Legendary Roots/Blues Guitarist, Grammy Award-winning Producer Pete Anderson, who was holding forth at the lobby of the Hilton Hotel across the way.
So I went and indulged. What a show this was! I was overwhelmed and blown away. And while I was thus occupied, I also rubbed elbows with just about every other amigo in the Guitar World I had hoped to see.
So by and large it was a swell day.
Oh yeah, one more thing. Seymour gave me a CD of his music, pointing out that one of the cuts, ” OK Roy,” was dedicated to Roy Buchanan. You can check out Seymour’s music here:
Taken from this post:
NAMM 2012 Noë & Seymour
