![]() ![]() "I didn’t know it was a car, I just heard this thing roaring up. And I hear this roar, and I thought: 'What’s that?' I’m still living with my parents at the time in Epsom. ![]() I gave him the fuzz box I was using in the studio when he joined, and of course he went in there and did some amazing work. I said: “Well, I know somebody who’d be really good for this, and it’s Jeff Beck.” "The manager of The Yardbirds had actually asked me to join when Eric Clapton left. I said: 'My God, what is that?'" The Yardbird Years The first Fender I saw was on an album in the fifties, The ‘Chirping’ Crickets. "It was a door that gave many of the bands that started in the sixties access to the guitar. I can say quite safely that he was the portal. "The next day at school, people would say: “You see this guy Lonnie Donegan on the television?” The whole school would be buzzing about this guy Lonnie Donegan, who was considerably older than us, but not as old as our parents. ![]()
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