WALTER TROUT
What was the first serious guitar that you bought with your own money?
“My own money? I have to say that it was kind of a loan. My grandmother took me to 8th Street Music in Philadelphia in 1968 and so I was 17. I’d been playing a little while and I had a bunch of cheap, really crappy electric guitars that were terrible and that year an album called Super Session cameoutandMikeBloomfieldwas playing a Les Paul, so I decided that’s what I had to have.
“My grandmother loaned me $200 – I think I had maybe $100 saved up and so she covered the rest and I paid her back when I
