When in Bali about 12 years ago, I walked into a music shop and walked out with a Squier Bullet stratocaster, a nice red one, just like Hanks. When I returned to Oz I bought a zoom sound effects and a Peavey Vypyr, all bargain basement stuff, guitar cost about $150, Zoom around $100 and the Peavey around $200. I then set about teaching myself to play. I'm a died in the wool electric guitar instrumental fan: Hank B Marvin, Shadows, Dire Straits, Atlantics and so on, so I'd download a song, play it in slo mo, copy every note and put it all together.
I then downloaded some backing tracks and practiced, when I got reasonably proficient I uploaded tracks to you tube, about 18 songs in all: Wonderful land, Midnight, Blue Star, Peacepipe, The Savage, Sleepwalk, plus a few others: Dire Straits On Every Street. I was also a Big O fan, so I put together an instrumental version of California Blue and one by the Eagles I Dreamed There Was No War and uploaded them as well.
But the pinnacle for me, and one I was aiming for was Bombora by the Atlantics. I'd started putting that together (difficult with slow, old man fingers), but alas, RA struck and I lost the use of my hands and fingers. I put the guitar away for a few years, hoping it was all a bad dream and the RA would go away, but it didn't and so eventually I sold all my bargain basement musical gear and turned to another hobby.
Every now and again I like to reminisce, so I go to my you tube channel and listen to the songs I recorded. They may not be very good, but at least I can say 'I did that'!
From when I was but a boy, Bombora by the Atlantics. They still do the traps, 60 years on:
. And then I hear this, recorded in 2005 by the same band, albeit with a slightly different linenup (Martin Cilia on lead):
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I'm pretty sure they don't use Squire guitars!