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CHRIS BUCK

What was the first serious guitar that you bought with your own money?

“The first proper guitar I really remember aspiring to for a very long time was my Les Paul. I had a Squier Telecaster prior to that, then I graduated up to an Epiphone Les Paul that my old man very kindly bought me – and then it was the Les Paul.

“I was a huge Slash fan when I was growing up and so I was intent on getting a bona fide Gibson Les Paul at some point. It was sort of hovered over my head as an incentive to do well in my GCSE exams by my parents, as long as I met them half way on it. Of course, the first thing I did with it

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