FEATUREMemories Of 500 Issues
JAMIE DICKSON (2011-PRESENT)
“My first memory of Guitarist magazine comes from the day I bought my first guitar. I was 16 and I’d started working in a local gardening centre. I’d just received my first pay packet of £75 and I couldn’t decide what to spend it on; I thought either a Walkman or a guitar. So I walked into Morlings music shop in Lowestoft with my pay and walked out again with a Hohner Dreadnought – and that one decision changed the course of the rest of my life. The second thing I bought that day was a copy of Guitarist , so I could find out what to do with my new Hohner. I remember Slash was on the front cover and, digging around in subsequent years, I think it would have been around 1992.
“Fast forward to 2011 and I found myself actually getting a job at the magazine I’d read and loved for years. It was a real pinch-yourself moment and one I’ve never forgotten. It was a privilege then and it remains so today. One of my first big assignments I received, as a features editor, was to interview BB King backstage at the Albert Hall during an all-star celebration of (if memory serves) his 86th birthday. I had been granted only 10 minutes’ interview time to get the cover feature and, having been ushered into the great bluesman’s dressing room and
