ORANGE & GREEN
Apr 03, 2020
4 minutes
Words Rod Brakes
What was the Orange shop like in the early days?
“I opened our shop on New Compton Street in 1968, and I built a studio underneath. We were sort of long-haired hippie types [laughs], which was conducive to what was happening back then in London. Guys like Marc Bolan, Eric Clapton and Paul Kossoff would sit in the shop chatting and jamming all day long. It was part of the whole thing that was happening. They’d come in, take a guitar off the wall and plug in. It was all happening back then.”
What kind of gear did you sell?
“When I first started, nobody would supply us,
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