What first attracted you to the Strat?
Somebody else playing through my amplifier and sounding better than me! [Laughs]
What guitar were you using before the Stratocaster?
That particular night when that incident happened, I was playing a [Gibson] Barney Kessel, it’s a wonderful jazz guitar, but it was feeding back at relative medium live volumes. You gotta remember this was 1973, and we were playing in a club, and we didn’t have a proper PA. All the music that would spill from the stage was the volume the audience would hear. And my jazz guitar would feed back, and when this kid plugged into my amp and played this Strat, his guitar did not feed back — and he was playing louder, better and cooler than me. I was like, “Whoa.”
So you bought your Hitmaker Strat
