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GETTING IT OUT THERE
I fell in love with the guitar back in the 60s, initially influenced, like many, by The Shadows. Having learned to play on a Spanish guitar given to our family by my grandad, I’ve had a number of electric guitars before moving on to a Kimbara 12-string acoustic. This was similar in appearance, if not value, to the Guild guitar used by John Denver and I still enjoy its company today.
My son kindly purchased a ‘proper’ made-in-Mexico Fender Stratocaster for me some years ago that was being used for demonstration purposes in a music shop on the Isle of Man. This renewed my interest in electric guitars and was certainly the best I had owned to date. Previously, I had written a number of guitar tunes, which I revisited and updated and made some basic demos of using a drum machine, Washburn bass, my 12-string for the rhythm and Fender for the solo part.
