Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes

I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

Beck

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• I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.

  

  Beck
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Piano