Space-age guitars lead to Strawberry Fields Forever

An early passion for guitar echo machines has grown into an abiding interest in enhancing music with the most modern electronics available

Music and electronics have gone hand in hand for me from the very beginning. The folk songs we were taught in junior school didn’t grab me, and the first tunes that did – when I was 15 – were two guitar instrumentals: Apache by Cliff Richard’s band The Shadows and Riders In The Sky by The Ramrods. Both made gloriously excessive use of echo machines, and I wanted one. Around that time, in 1960, Britain was still peppered with shops and dumps selling ex-Second World War electronic surplus: we had a local one, a corrugated-iron Nissen hut in a field that was full of RAF-surplus radar sets and similar stuff. We used to hang out there, buying bits to make crystal radio sets – or even one-valve sets for the more…

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