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INQUIRER JONATHAN WILSON

Got my first real six-string…

got my first proper guitar as a combined Christmas/13th birthday present, a black Squier Stratocaster with a Squier 15 amplifier. I could already play because my dad had an amateur band and he had several acoustics at the house. His band were playing the British Invasion stuff — they were that generation of kids who saw the

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