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teachers. He was inspired to learn guitar by listening to construction workers working on nearby hydroelectric dams. He began playing guitar at an early age, and was surrounded by talented young musicians during his family's frequent visits to
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and similar guitar effects, and these effects would become a staple of Billy's guitar sound. It was around this time, in the mid-1960s, that Billy TK's friend, Ara Mete, gave Billy a gift — his first
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