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English guitarist Jeff Beck has been described as an absolute master, perhaps the ... at building his own guitar first by gluing and bolting together cigar boxes for the body.[permanent dead link]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)This was a musical ground zero for the sons of insurance clerks and factory workers; they may have heard guitars but they couldn't see any, so they made them – Brian May (of Feltham, Middlesex) from a fireplace, Beck from cigar boxes.
Beck, who was a boy when he started working on cars with an uncle, built his first instrument, using a cigar box, a picture frame for the neck and string from a radio-controlled toy airplane. "I played with it for hours, making noises," he recalls happily.
More than any other guitarist, Jeff Beck was responsible for defining the progressive rock genre.
Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck, grew up in Wallington and attended Sutton Manor School, now Sutton Grammar.
More than any other guitarist, Jeff Beck was responsible for defining the progressive rock genre.
Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck, grew up in Wallington and attended Sutton Manor School, now Sutton Grammar.
This was a musical ground zero for the sons of insurance clerks and factory workers; they may have heard guitars but they couldn't see any, so they made them – Brian May (of Feltham, Middlesex) from a fireplace, Beck from cigar boxes.
Beck, who was a boy when he started working on cars with an uncle, built his first instrument, using a cigar box, a picture frame for the neck and string from a radio-controlled toy airplane. "I played with it for hours, making noises," he recalls happily.