What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money?
“My father bought me my first guitar, actually. It was an Aria Pro II, you know, a kind of a Les Paul model. But the first guitar I bought myself was a red American Standard Stratocaster. So there was quite a difference between those two guitars, I think that changed my guitar playing back then. This was a really long time ago!
“I started to learn guitar with the Aria. It was quite a heavy guitar, but I liked it. It was beautiful and the tone was quite sweet and warm as those humbucker guitars usually are. I was around 14 or 15
