NUTHIN’ BUT A V THANG

Dave Davies knows a good thing when he sees it. As he rummaged in a US music store in 1965, desperate to find a replacement for his beloved Guild Starfire lost by an airline on The Kinks’ tour route to the West Coast, he struck gold – or, more accurately, he struck korina.

Dave spotted an interesting-looking brown case on a high shelf in the shop and asked to have a look. After some shifting and heaving, the dusty old case revealed its secret. Dave left the shop with a striking prize: one of the original