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Dec 2024
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Episode 71: Zach Harmon Talks Guitar Pic...

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The week of December 4, 2024 on The Metallica Report…


Metallica’s long-time tech, Zach Harmon, sits down to offer an overview of how the humble yet venerated guitar pick has developed over the years for this band. Zach explains the importance of shapes, colors, sizes, and styles of these tiny tools of the trade and reveals his own fervent attention to detail and creativity when it comes to such things as the now infamous “city picks.”


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