MARTIN BARRE
What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money?
“Now, here’s a coincidence and a half because one of your readers sent a picture in of himself playing a Dallas Tuxedo Burns Fenton Weill and he said the only other person you’d see playing one was me. Obviously, a long, long time ago… But today one came on eBay and I bought it straight away. It’s not mine: I’ve got a photo of me playing mine and I got a magnifying glass out and I can tell the one I bought today isn’t the one I played way back when I was 15 or something.
“It’s a very sexy, pointy, space-age guitar and obviously that’s the only reason I bought it and
