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The passing of the late great Jeff Beck reminded me of a story. I had a chance to play Jeff Beck's 1954 blackguard Esquire. It was the one he got while in the Yardbirds and used to record "Heart Full of Soul" (an important early psychedelic rock sound). Seymour Duncan owned it and brought it to the Dallas Guitar Show. When the show closed for the evening a few of us were invited up to his room and I got to play it. There was friction between Beck and Duncan about it. Duncan claims he got it in trade for the work he did on Beck's Les Paul (shown on the cover of Blow by Blow) but Beck says it belonged to him and Seymour wasn't about to give it up. Seymour still has it.