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INQUIRER ALAIN JOHANNES

What influenced you to pick up a guitar?

It was a combination of my love for the Beatles — the singles were coming out in real time for me, because I was born in ’62 — and my uncle Peter, who was a multi-instrumentalist. When he showed up he would bring his instruments, and then when I was around four, I asked him to show me some chords and I started to pick out some tunes by ear.

What was the first guitar you owned?

It was a flamenco guitar, because I was into Paco

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