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    STEVE HOWE

    Oct 15, 2021 5 minutes
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    What was the first serious guitar that you bought with your own money?

    “It would be the 1964 Gibson ES-175D. I yearned for that guitar. I wanted to start playing when I was 10 and I started when I was 12, and after a few years of playing Guyatone, Burns and things, just regular guitars, I had the courage to say to my mum and dad, ‘I want a really good guitar; I want one of these 175D things…’ So they said, ‘Okay, we’ll help you,’ but I paid for it. My dad paid the deposit – I think it was £40 – and I paid all the instalments on the hire purchase from my hard-earned gig-money of the day.

    “That guitar is not only my first and best investment, it’s been my greatest guitar and I love it to pieces.

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