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Duane Eddy was a guitar hero before the term was even invented, and one of the coolest white guys of his era. Between 1958 and 1962, he and his former band, the Rebels, placed 15 singles in the Top 40, making Eddy the best-selling instrumentalist in the history of rock ’n’ roll.
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Duane Eddy was a guitar hero before the term was even invented, and one of the coolest white guys of his era. Between 1958 and 1962, he and his former band, the Rebels, placed 15 singles in the Top 40, making Eddy the best-selling instrumentalist in the history of rock ’n’ roll. In his hitmaking heyday, he even got to act in a few movies (“Mainly Westerns,” he recalls. “I mostly held horses.”).
On such raucous hits as “Rebel Rouser,” “Ramrod,” “Cannonball” and “Forty Miles Of Bad Road,” Eddy’s distinctive guitar twang (which he achieved by tuning down an octave and playing melody lines on his bass strings) influenced a generation of future players—guys like Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, who paid their respects to Eddy the evening before this interview took place.
“That’s the most flattering thing I could hear,” says Eddy, “and it’s what kept me going through a few dark, lean years. It’s the proudest thing that I have to hang onto from those days.”