![]() ![]() So that’s the guitar I’d run out of a burning building with. It originally had this wooden bridge, so I put a Gibson tune-o-matic on, and I’ve had it ever since. I once had a 335 and an SG stolen on the road with the Grass Roots, and so I went to Manny’s in New York and bought this Guild. “There’s a 1957 Gibson Country Western – I record a lot with that – and then there’s my ’69 Guild Bluesbird. So I took it out to the barn, plugged it in, and all the chickens went scattering, the steers were looking at me funny… but when I hit that E chord I went, ‘Oh my…’ and that was it! I just let that E chord reverberate through my body, and I was just changed boy!” I couldn’t live without my… ![]() “We were a very poor family, but I took everything that I’d saved up from working, and I sent away to Sears and Roebuck and I got that Silvertone guitar, which was a Danelectro with lipstick pickups, with the guitar case that had an amp built into it. I hear that guitar sound I go, ‘Oh my god!’ He gave me an acoustic guitar and I started playing chords, but then I was in bed one night with my little crystal radio set – that’s how old I am – and I hear Link Wray’s Rumble. But my grandfather played in a semi-professional country and western band down in Long Beach. “I played trumpet from very young age, and in high school, I was first chair trumpeter in my freshman year.
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