What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money
“I was in a metal band [when I was a teenager] and I had this Kramer Focus, which was a one-pickup, slopey headstock thing with a Floyd Rose and a locking nut – but I never really liked it, I never really felt a connection with it. But it was my metal guitar because the bass player of the band didn’t like the idea of me playing a Westone Spectrum before that! So he bought this guitar for me and wanted me to pay him back, though I never really responded to it.
“When that band was over, I suppose I was moving away from metal and I loved the idea of having a 335 or something like that – I was really into hollowbodies. I found another Westone – a Westone Rainbow – which is a beautiful kind of birdseye maple guitar like a 335,
