This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I`m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it`s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn`t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn`t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that`ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I`m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it`s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
