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Festival in 1969, having quit the band the previous week. In 1995, he explained to an
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was released, Vestine burst into musical prominence as a guitarist who stretched the idiom of the blues with long solos that moved beyond the conventional genres. He had his own style and a trademark piercing treble guitar sound.
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motorcycles. He eventually owned eleven of them. Prior to his death he was looking forward to playing at their 75th
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