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    GEOFF TYSON

    Aug 21, 2020 4 minutes

    What was the first serious guitar that you bought yourself?

    “It was a Gibson ES-335 solidbody, which was a limited-edition thing. A very strange guitar, I think they only made it for a year or something. It had 22 frets, rosewood fretboard… it was actually a good instrument. I ended up selling it when I was a teenager and actually found it again maybe 30 years later at a Guitar Center in Northern California and I knew it was mine because I dropped it and it had a chip in the paint and I recognised it immediately. They were selling it for something like $2,800 as a vintage classic instrument – I think I paid $180 for it originally.”

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