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DARREL HIGHAM

What was the first serious guitar you bought with your own money?

“The first guitar I bought was a Gretsch 6120. It was one of the first batch of the reissue guitars in the late 80s that was brought into the country. I sold my 1957 Ford Consul, which was my pride and joy at the time, and that enabled me to buy the guitar because it was a huge sum of money in 1989. I was 19 years old and it was the guitar of my dreams. It was delivered to where my mum worked at the time and she called me and they’d put it in the conference room on this really big long table. I walked over and I was

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