JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR
What was the first guitar you bought with your own money?
“The first guitar I bought myself was a red American Stratocaster from a guitar shop I was working in called Fair Deal Music in Birmingham. I’d been working there Saturdays and Sundays, plus I was gigging, so I probably earned more money as a 15 year old than I do now as a 35 year old.
“My grandmother, bless her, had said, ‘Because you’re working so hard, whatever money you earn I will match,’ because she knew I wanted a nice proper American guitar. So, yes, a red American Strat that I guess would have been about the year 1997, because it had been there for a few years.”
What was the last guitar you bought
