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When I started out, my lust was for a Cherry Red Gibson ES-335, which I bagged aged just 22. My inspiration was clearly Clapton’s ‘Cream’ guitar. However, I’d bought a Fender first as the £105 I’d so far scrimped together burned a ’67 Telecaster-sized hole in my pocket. My next GAS was for a white SG Custom, thanks to Alice Cooper’s original guitarist Glen Buxton. I never got one. Then came my white ’59 Strat (inspiration: Paul Kossoff), then a black

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