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NILI BROSH

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

“That would be a Charvel Model 4 that I bought on eBay in 2003. I think it was probably $350, or something like that, and it was all the money that I could manage to save at that point. It was purple with sparkles that you see when you look really close up. In some lights it looked brown and in some lights dark purple.

“I was in high school, I had friends in school that I’d played with, but it was still in my very early days of learning to play guitar. I was starting to get into the instrumental guys and a lot

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