Here’s some ball knowledge 🎱 🧠 (the brief history of pinch harmonics) On electric guitar, pinch harmonics evolved naturally from these classical ideas. Jazz and blues players in the 1950s–60s occasionally produced them unintentionally through pick-hand technique and amplification. Popularisation (1970s–80s) Pinch harmonics became widely recognised and stylistically important in the 1970s, especially through hard rock and metal guitarists. Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) is often credited with popularis