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DAN PATLANSKY

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

“I had a bar mitzvah when I was 13 years old and you obviously get a bit of bar mitzvah money that’s supposed to be for a deposit on a car when you come of age or maybe some university money, but I managed to convince my father to release the money and I bought myself a Clapton signature Strat. It was my first proper guitar and it cost a chunk of money. It was in the 90s and it was Pewter with the Lace Sensor pickups in, and that was the first guitar I bought with my own money. It was one

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