HIS FIRST GUITAR
(Guitarist, Summer 2009)
“My first experience with a guitar was as a kid when I was at a friend’s house who was slightly spoiled, he had a record player, a tape recorder, a guitar – all the toys. He’d got bored with the guitar and it only had a couple of strings on it. I started playing around with it and he said, ‘Do you wanna borrow it?’ I said, ‘Yes, please!’ I remember carrying it home in the rain and taking my coat off to wrap around it to protect it. Right then, I felt a kind of protective thing towards the guitar. I didn’t have any strings so I used some model aeroplane control line wire, the kind that made the model fly round in circles. The people next‑door-but‑one had a zither and that was actually the first stringed instrument that I touched.”
PLAYING A STRAT FOR THE FIRST TIME
(Guitarist, Summer 2009)
“Well, me and a friend got a train and a bus
