hi will

I came up almost the same way as you and have similar musical tastes.

I used to play and sing quite a lot of Eddie Cochrane stuff. At the time it wasn't easy to get information about the US stars.

I tried for some time to try to create a sound like Eddie - OK so in those days I used to copy !!! lol

I finally found that Eddie used a plain eg not wound third G string and I guess that maybe I was one of the first guys around here to use one.

What a huge tragedy it was when he died at the early age of just 21.

I used to regularly sing Twenty Flight Rock, Cmon Everybody and of course Summertime Blues.

I found though Eddie was popular with the music fans over here, in the UK there were very few musicians who played and sang his stuff in those early days..... though many did later.

cheers

MikeL2