JD SIMO

Vintage chic and a fondness for the Gibson ES-335 fuel JD’s unique brand of funky psycho blues…

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What was the first serious guitar that you bought with your own money?

“I believe I was in the fourth grade – I suppose I was 10 or 11 – and I saved up my gig money, because I was already playing quite a bit, and I bought a Mexican Stratocaster. I actually still have it. It really was special because, up to that point, I had two other guitars that my parents had gotten me. One was a really inexpensive travel guitar – it was an electric guitar, but it was like a shortened scale thing – and after that I got a really off-brand S-type that was maybe $100 or something. So to have one that actually said ‘Fender’ on it was really exciting. I ordered it through the mail and I remember the pain of waiting for it to be delivered. The day it was finally delivered was a really good day!”

What was the last guitar you bought and why?