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When I was 17 years old I spent a great deal of time in a local music store trying out guitars that I knew I could never afford. This store even had a sound booth with a variety of amplifiers inside where I could, on a slow day when the sales staff didn’t mind too much, sit and play as long as I wanted. Well, as it turns out, one day I strolled into the store and there hanging up for the first time was the guitar of my dreams!

It was a solid-body electric with a hard-rock maple core overlaid with Canadian ash and finished in mahogany! The neck was glued to the body so the action was great across the entire fret-board. It had a brass nut at the head-stock and a brass bridge for a very bright tone with dual hum-bucking pickups with a splitter switch so I could play in single or double coil mode! Those of you who know guitars will know what I’m talking about and for the rest.. well, trust me, this guitar was way cool!

But the coolest part was that it had on-board effects in the form of little modules that could be inserted into a little door on the back of the guitar! I really wanted that guitar! I had to have it! I even greatly desired it! So, I asked the sales clerk to set it aside for me using the trade value of the guitar I already owned as a down payment. I then raided my savings account and even bummed some money from my best friend – a fellow guitarist – and I took that beautiful instrument home confident that it would be my ticket to super stardom as a rock musician!

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