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JONATHAN WILSON

Got my first real six-string…

“I’VE HAD INCREDIBLE MOMENTS WITH ROGER, SUCH AS PLAYING IN ROME TO 80 000 PEOPLE”

“I got my first proper guitar as a combined Christmas/13th birthday present, a black Squier Stratocaster with a Squier 15 amplifier. I could already play because my dad had an amateur band and he had several acoustics at the house. His band were playing the guitar was actually a 1962 Gibson J-50 I bought in the 90s for $1,000 plus some trade-ins. It’s my main acoustic to this day – that thing’s fantastic.”

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