What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money?
“Well, it was actually a bass because I started off playing bass. And after learning to play on a homemade one, I then saved up and got a Höfner violin bass – you know, a Paul McCartney special. But as far as a guitar goes, it was a Fender Tele. I remember going into a shop in Sweden and I tried a Gibson Les Paul and a Fender Telecaster. Of the two, I immediately went for the Fender; I found the Les Paul very, very heavy, much heavier than the Tele, and it seemed very unwieldy as well. It just wasn’t
