NAMM '13 - Seymour Duncan Whole Lotta Humbucker

[@ZappaBlues]

He is the master of not only pickups, but name dropping. :)

[@thomasadams675]

Yeah, and he'll be happy to tell you a story about who gave him the nickname the "Name Dropper"! ;-) I sincerely had Hero worship for Seymour. My experience with needing help from him cured me of that. Not one word, not one pickup aged correctly, not one signature and not one is tappable of the "custom "5" set" which ain't what I ordered! The custom 5 was supposed to be the neck pickup only. Last thing I needed was a scooped mid set. MJ DOESN'T LISTEN WHILE YOU'RE PLACING A LARGE ORDER! Derek never called me to fix anything. I hear he "Doesn't give a shit". -from a dealer. The Only person who was kind was Peter, in Artist Relations. MJ told me Seymour couldn't help me find clones, due to severe debilitating illness, or appropriate substitute pickups for my #2 Gibson W.R.C. SR-71 as it's so rare, you've probably not heard of them. Big Disappointment! too bad for me. Is he really too sick to help an Artist who really got screwed?

[@dilloncaines7678]

It's critical context my dude. There's a reason he can get vintage high quality right. The names and experiences are all apart of that formula.

[@devynrouge8110]

@@thomasadams675 "artist" really? You're a guitarist bro, quit being so self centered. Even if the pickups sound "bad" to you, a tone is a tone and each tone is another tool in your toolbox. Sorry you ordered pickups that didnt automatically match you dream tone, welcome to being guitarist.

[@roblarson9065]

He’s earned it. He was there.

[@aquilarossa5191]

It's more like nostalgia and reminiscing. Most people get at least some memory issues as they age. Prattling on about the past is like wax on, wax off. Use or or lose it. It becomes a habit.

[@thundersteve1566]

Seymour, MJ, and company are the greatest with fantastic pickups and friendly service! They once fixed a damaged 59' for me fr

[@jesperjrgensen4589]

I love how he pays homage to all the people who have inspired him throghout the years, and appreciate everyone who has tought him, and helped him on his way. It's all about the musicians, hard work and acquired knowledge. A great man, an ingenuitive tinker, and a true music fan.

[@SixStringHarmonies]

Well said. Spot-on assessment. NOBODY makes a pup like SD. The SH-2 Jazz Model is "The Guitar Neck Pickup Perfected". It can't get any more perfect than what Seymour has done with that humbucker. The '59 Model is another unbeatable masterpiece. So many have copied SD designs, whilst none have matched his success. More than anything else I own, that SD Jazz pup draws me to pick up the guitar every day, no matter how exhausted I may be. I LOVE the tone and feel of that thing. Inspiring! Cheers!

[@skyviewdesign]

You cannot find a better man out there than Seymour! Even with the interviewer showing his disinterest in his legendary history, he still is the sweetest guy and very humble about his products. His attention to detail is unmatched in his products! Even when you call, you'll probably get either him or his wife answer. That is personal touch if I ever knew any...

[@MrUltraworld]

What a humble & nice guy. I got to meet him in the late 80's. He loves to share info on pickups & the guitars they go in. After speaking with him, I got away from the high powered, ceramic humbuckers I was using. I learned a lot about the interaction between the guitar & the amp. The amp is an instrument as well. Less magnetic pull equals more string vibration, turn the amp up & it's magic. Thank You Seymour!

[@MadSpectro7]

My favorite thing about Seymour Duncan is that he supports small-time guitarists and helps potential buyers decide on their pickups. He really is a man of the people and it's reflected in his company.

[@jhop5150]

Seymour Duncan is a class act. I ordered a custom pickup a few years ago and was amazed to find his handwriting and signature on the box in pen!

[@edwin5945]

Is that interviewer the kid from "Almost Famous"?

[@GuitaristAidan]

Don't see why so many people are moaning, the man's a legend and can ramble if he wants! Plus I found it really interesting

[@jupitermoongauge4055]

"whatever you put this in to, the amplifier is going to make it more of it" yeah, that's what amplifiers do

[@krauz111]

love his stories just like my grandpa =)

[@thundersteve1566]

Oooops. They once fixed a damaged 59' for me free of charge. I'll always remember that and continue to be a loyal customer!

[@mdehner2]

On one other note! We always thought you were nuts, for taking apart all those perfectly good pick-ups out of your guitars! Thank God you were!!!

[@216trixie]

Your'e my hero PG. Thank you for this interview.

[@blahblahoww123]

i'm a metalhead and i've always loved the SH-6. it's sound great with distortion, but i also coil tap them and they sound really cool and more like a single coil then other coil tapped buckers i've tried.

[@Broxi57]

Lolll That must've been the ultimate Rock n Roll name dropping session... Respect to SD, he's seen and worked with some legends

[@W.Eric.Anderson]

JB..... thank you, Legend

[@bryanwilliams3665]

Post Mid 1972 Jimmy Pages Pickups remained unchanged throughout the Zeppelin years. He had a pretty UNCONVENTIONAL set . A Low Wind 7.5k T Top in the bridge , and an Overwound 8.6k Alnico 2 with a really weak Alnico 2 magnet in the neck. The Neck PUP was set really low to avoid 'mud' and to match the low wind bridge T TOP... Tim Mills from Bare Knuckles Pickups was commissioned to make a replica of Jimmy's Neck PAF. Seymour got involved years AFTER Led Zeppelin.. Further , the Push Pull mods etc were never in the Zeppelin years. Jimmys Guitar was 'Standard 50s Wiring

[@jabberwocky7927]

Ive heard the WLH demo'd a number times before. If it were the only thing on the market it would be a no brainer, for us Jimmy Page fans, but I will be sticking to my MSG '73 set, thank you very much.

[@DougZbikowski]

Been running these in my main Les Paul for 8 years now. They're so controllable and predictable. My favorite pickups!

[@thehandseesall]

I've heard a lot of people knock Charles Saufley but, he is by far the best interviewer Premiere Guitar has!

[@ShoreStudios]

Ugh Seymour Duncan booth right beside the Martin Co. booth bah thats getting close to heaven for me!

[@mechmat12345]

This pickup is cool and all, but I'd love to see a Jimmy Page tribute tele pickup from SD too given his experience and relationship with Page and Beck.

[@bryanwilliams3665]

I'd like to see a Led Zeppelin Tribute set with the Low Wind Bridge (7.5k).. The WLH is miles off

[@Plexipete]

The man and a very humble guy

[@boardwlk17]

I've been using Seymour's pickups for over 30 yrs, if you don't like his pickups or his work you shouldn't be playing the guitar. The man is a genius thanks Gary Norris Mudd Fence

[@ALEXXvsZOMBIES1]

HOLY NAME DROP. he basically interviewed himself.

[@mdehner2]

Thank you Seymour for this interview, and especially the Cincinnati references! I can back your claim up of Glenn Hughes burning up all the old telecaster necks as firewood in Norwood, because I saw him toss one in that old iron stove! Remember Shirley? She was the sane one, that actually did all the selling! I'd like to know, how many old Teles, and LesPauls you got for peanuts in Cincy, and sold them for big bucks in New York! Thank you for all the name dropping, because I know that is No BS!

[@TristanJCumpole]

"So hey, how've you been?" "Oh, I'm doing great....." ** lights get turned off, cleaners work around Seymour ** "....and that's all I have to say about that"

[@eddycurrent413]

its called sustain

[@EvLoutonian]

Legend!

[@TheScr4tchy]

passionate dude

[@superman1478]

Gotta love Seymour. It sounds like he could talk for days.

[@jasonwarren9874]

"We got the twitter" HAHA.. Dude is amazing!

[@santadan354]

Whenever I see its Charles I watch , even if I don't care about the product

[@spider5001]

wow thanks for letting us listen to it. Bet Rebecca could got a demo =)

[@thehandseesall]

Don't get me wrong, the rest of the team know their stuff and are good at what they do but, you know your always going to be entertained with Saufley.

[@jessesmit2907]

Seymour really looks like a Seymour, even though that sounds weird - it's true and you all know it!

[@gab.lab.martins]

Go to Seymour's channel, there's a big demo there.

[@Ycjedi]

Seymour is the man!

[@spudvader]

These are old pickups, why are the just being shown at NAMM13?? I had these a year or 2 ago

[@CliveBarnesMusic]

LEGEND

[@krauz111]

duncan i love ur pups, carlos from mexico

[@bille77]

The way Duncan presents himself there (names dropping and stuff) makes him look like he's making at least fifty percent up. lol

[@wisesatyr72]

sshhh its based on Jimmy Page's pickups

[@VitorDuzarte]

I would love to get my hands on one of this pickups.

[@jupitermoongauge4055]

"if you want to use a violin bow with it , it sounds awesome" oh shit, I was gonna buy a dimarzio, but now I'm worried it wont sound awesome with a violin bow

[@SunsetPunk]

Mick is staring right in your soul.

[@FROZENPEES1]

throughout the entire interview that picture of mick thompson is staring into my eyes

[@thomasadams675]

This makes me so sad. I had the chance to get my guitars taken care of. He declined to help with 2 rare Gibson guitars or even to sign one pickup out of a LOT of sets I waited 6 months for.

[@thomasadams675]

I have personal issues with M.J. Aside from that, If you look at what dealers have in stock, JB's SH4, '78 TREMBUCKERS (Won't fit a Humbucker) and they're all zebra. They will not tell you that they have a cream colored bobbin! I found out why. Dimarzio owns the patent for the double cream bobbin. My point, she just makes what she thinks is popular. I am not using ANY of the 7 sets I Custom ordered as not one came in the way I'd asked. I seem to be the one who really got hurt.

[@m1garandisthebest]

Who is that female walking behind Seymour at 03:11?

[@MrPhillipBaxter]

hey Seymour, how ya been? (Charles puts mic on stand)

[@joebubbit]

Whassa "rewind"? Did he take old pickups and rewind them?

[@twanger644]

joebubbit yep

[@davidg4726]

The interviewer... Charles did not even know the Seymour Duncan website URL!!!

[@SecondCityGuitars]

Has anyone ever seen Seymour Duncan and Larry DiMarzio together? Also, when will the Black winter pickup be coming to the USA?

[@recklesstoboggan]

I find it strange that Seymour spends the first 6 and a half minutes of the video name dropping, ... but he can't mention the name of the artist associated with his pickup. 🙄 I'm gonna go grab a shovel so Duncan can "pickup" all those names.

[@mkilner]

Great stuff, could listen to him all day!...give him credit, that namm show must be exhausting for someone have his age, anyhow im happy, he mentioned my fave band Camel!...think he meant Chris Farley who did a stint with them, oh and that girls got a nice dereair at 9.33! :)

[@TurkiyeCumhurbaskani]

6 minutes into the interview I started to fall asleep

[@mistad00m]

I met him at NAMM (:

[@dodgerscatcher]

6:15

[@NickGuitarMalfara13]

The fact that Mick Thompson is just staring at me..

[@216trixie]

"a humbucker here, a humbucker there...",, here a humbucker, there a humbucker, everywhere a humbucker humbucker.

It would be nice if someone did a comparison on Gibson Les Pauls between the Seymour Duncan Whole Lotta and the Bare Knuckles Black Dog..

[@Hxris43x]

They should make a Seymour Duncan Sh-2 Jazz and Sh-4 JB hybrid!

[@JoshuaPickenpaugh]

mike gordon of phish does interviews for PG now? haha ahem. Cool vid thanks for sharing as always. :)

[@poopypanysou812]

Charles is a great interviewer. At the end... when Seymour mentioned Hendrix, I thought this interview was really getting interesting and spectacular.... but I guess due to time, it got shined on... Too bad. Maybe next time.

[@JhockCousteau]

Seymour's Taste... 🤌👏👌

[@RandomGuitarist96]

He was probably exhausted in this interview.

[@DylanHutto]

It's kinda weird seeing him sitting in front of a giant picture of Mick from Slipknot

[@R.R.R.465]

Probably the most interesting figure in the industry today, they should have just interviewed him instead of trying to plug this new pickup.

[@aidanmc3785]

yeah hed Ramble On for quite a while if given the chance

[@MrUltraworld]

Your so right. They give these pickups fancy names, charge $200 ea. & they did nothing for me. Some people think that unless your spending $500 a set ,you not going to get that Jimmy Page grail tone. Who do they think wound Jimmy's pickups in his '60 LP? Seymour did. He's not guessing at the tone, he was there. I like a pair of classic stacks & a JB. The stacks have great single coil tone & chime, but there's no volume drop off when you switch from the JB to them. Even volume, great tone.

[@bryanwilliams3665]

Seymour only got involved 'Post Zeppelin' ... From Mid 72 through early 80's Pageys Pickups were not changed. They were a Low Wind 7.5k T Top (Bridge) and an Overwound 8.6k Alnico 2 PAF Neck (set below pickup ring). These WLH pickups have no relevance to the Zeppelin years

[@MrBreezlyBruin]

@@bryanwilliams3665 that's not true at all. The WLH are based on the pickup that SD made for Page when he (SD) was working in London when Zeppelin was just coming up.

[@bryanwilliams3665]

@@MrBreezlyBruin Jimmy didn't have a Duncan in his Guitar during Zeppelin. He had a T Top and and a Gibson PAF.. .. Did you mean Duncan got involvedwith his Black Beauty before it got stolen? The WLH doesn't replicate his Sunburst Les Paul tone . Its nothing like it.

[@webseiter]

Charles looks a bit like Anton Chigurh / Javier Bardem...

[@coffeewaldo]

However I use his pick ups and he got his start winding them in my hometown of vineland nj at music center. Right Seymour? Like he's gonna see this. He used a record player to wind the pups back then. I read it in guitar player mag woops. Sorry premier guitar.

[@TimothyBussMusic]

Old Mc Duncan had a pickup shop e i e i o

[@ml414skidoo]

That's the best tool they have to interview Seymour Duncan? Insulting. Glad he didn't ask what kind of picks he uses or other bonehead question.

[@216trixie]

NIce finish.

[@embreesmith7613]

just what was the point of this waste of time ..?

[@fanoboss]

"We got the Twitter..." dear lord, smh

[@Gitfiddle]

So it’s really cool huh?

[@pslyves]

whole lotta bucker! humbucker! humbuckertube!

[@knottsscary]

how come he couldn’t say jimmy page pick ups? lol

[@adrianjones1735]

He would have to give Jimmy money

[@bryanwilliams3665]

Because they are NOTHING like what Jimmy Used (certainly in Led Zeppelin) Pagey had a Low Wind 7.5k T Top in the Bridge with a Short A5 Roughcast Magnet . Couldn't be further from a 8.6k in the Bridge...

[@byronh77]

he sure can talk lol......but that's the cool thing about him. Stories for days!

[@m1garandisthebest]

I agree, it's Seymour FUCKIN Duncan for cryin out loud. It's not like he owns the most successful pickup company of the whole earth or anything....

[@tylerjones2]

Stereotypical Asian taking pictures in the back lol.

[@MrPaolo101]

I think ole SD should give JB back his esquire...i think Jeff would appreciate it!...

[@MADE2OWND]

full metal jackie

[@GodInTheMachine]

Charles' arm falls off lol

[@datAzog]

alright. now, talk about the pickup :)

[@bluesrhythmandroll]

yea, but when any company goes down the big production line route the product suffers heavily. thats why fender have a 'custom shop'. if you go to a vidal sassoon hair salon you don't get your hair cut by vidal do you? one man boutique makers have a massively better quality control, and they are a bit different.

[@stringmanipulator]

he's like yoda of pickups :) no disrespect :) he just seem to be that kind of guru

[@i3oosted]

OASIS!

[@olekzhdanov_guitar]

A sweet couple isn't it?

[@davidallen346]

Jeff Beck regretted giving his Yardbird Esquire guitar to Mr Duncan but its in good hands

[@jbkormos]

Seymour--whom I've met before--seems to be having a VERY tough time with his concentration level. Too much in the way of recreational substances, perhaps? Back when I dealt with him on a regular basis, he was A LOT more together.....

[@0Heavy0Metal0]

Yeah, I know. But it's a legend and you have to, out of respect, let them ramble on as long as they want. What else is he gonna do? Stop him in mid story and say "hey, let's get back to what were about, which is this new pickup"? lol I feel your pain though!

[@anwar.termizi]

For some reason that i dont know why, he always looked like that.

[@jeffreymiddleton4063]

Trust in me dovyou become jimypagey

[@RedAndtheBlackRocker]

Geez, he just loves to ramble on eh?

[@adrianjones1735]

Shhh you can’t say Ramble On

[@TheF86Sabre]

Mr. Duncan seems rather distracted.

[@TapatioGalactus1]

Damn he rambles

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

So many years of working with a lot of big rock stars