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[Photo taken by Dave Whalley at Matlock College, Derbyshire. Winter 1971/72? Age expressed (approximately) in Celsius.]
There comes a time in the life of the growing schoolboy when he falls hopelessly in love with the P.E. Mistress. In my case, it occurred at a particularly impressionable age: 27. Played havoc with my "Eleven Plus" exams.
Then the end of the fateful term came when she left as "Miss Adams", and returned, smiling and bronzed as "Mrs. -" ... well, does it really matter?
"Mavis," I said to myself (Dad had always wanted a daughter), "you will have to learn the guitar and write a song about all this." The song came out as, "The Dream-World of Kid Fearless". One of these years I bet I will be able to play it properly.
Petrol was four bob a gallon, but nobody could afford it, let alone guitars. The end of my nose soon became flat and polished from gawping through music shop windows at impossibly expensive instruments from the planet Pennsylvania. These things stay with you. Nothing for it, I thought, but to design and build my own twanger. It featured a square body (as used years later by Gibson in a "special" for Bo Diddley - no relation), strung with fishing line and fusewire, with curtain-hook tuners (Gibson never caught on to these other novel features). I reasoned that, as there were eight notes, it would require eight strings. What a burden the logical mind can be!
Age
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