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WARREN HAYNES

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

“I guess it would be a Gibson SG Junior, around 1974 when I was 14. I started playing in bars and clubs when I was 14, but it was very rare, I’d just play whenever I could. That was my third guitar. The first guitar I had was a Norma for $59 that my dad got at a hardware store, and the next one was a Lyle copy of an SG. I guess [the SG Junior] was still bought by my dad. The next one I got was a Gibson ES-150

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