What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money?
“I had a couple of guitars when I was a teenager, but my dad helped me get me a bank loan for a white Ibanez Universe. I was 17 and I desperately wanted a multi‑coloured one when I was a kid. I was a huge fan of [Steve Vai’s] Passion And Warfare, a complete casualty of that album. I had that guitar for 10 years and loved it and I completely regret selling it, but I kind of moved on musically and felt that it was the wrong instrument. But it was a big mistake, getting rid of it.”
What was the last guitar you bought and why?
“The last guitar I bought was a Teisco SSL 4, a ’63 – one of
