What’s that saying? Your past always catches up with you? Well, here’s a thing. It’s pretty rare to see a guitar you once owned, then sold, come back, isn’t it? The trouble is, when it all happened some decades ago, the ol’ memory isn’t quite what it was.
What I do remember is visiting a guitar shop in around 1979 or 1980. Where? Somewhere out of London’s West End. Probably Southend or somewhere like that. To cut to the chase, our band’s manager, myself and a guitar-playing mate (who had a van) set out on an adventure. We purchased two guitars. One was an old Hofner (or similar) single-cut semi and the other was this one, a Kawai Rock’n’Roll Star. It became my second/spare guitar for a short period before, as usual, the band disbanded and I was left with a guitar named after what I’d wanted to be. I sold it to a mate whose band were still living the dream.
Fast forward a couple of decades and I get a call from the guitarist of that initial band saying this guitar had long been in his possession after a lodger (a guitar player, of course!) who’d been kipping on his sofa had done a bunk – with
