MYLES KENNEDY
What was the first serious guitar that you bought with your own money?
“It was an Ibanez DT250 – they called them ‘The X-Series’. The story is that we had some horses and I wanted to get an electric guitar and my dad said,‘Well, I’ll tell you what. I’ll give you a dollar for every stall you clean…’ So I cleared horse manure for nine months, saved up my money, and bought my first electric guitar, which, to this day, when I see that guitar I smell horse manure!
“About three years after I bought it I was playing in the school jazz band, which was funny because this guitar was totally heavy metal and
