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" Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. "

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" I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!' "