.. and a serious devotion for Eddie Cochran... so 2 or 3 of his greatest hits would also have been played at our first ever gig

As I get closer to 60 my memory is shite..

Ok.. so this should be my last word on this..

The only reason my mate started to learn guitar and persuaded me to as well
was a direct result of the early 70s British Rock n Roll revival..
At 14 he was a plastic Ted.. buying his Teddy Boy gear mail order and wearing a bucket of Brylcream in his quiff to school.
I as was fashion had hippy hair half way down my back and wore very wide flares and glam rock platform shoes...

... and after all the frustration of trying to play rock music on a cheap acoustic & pickup,
I got my first real good quality solid body electric guitar when I was 17 in 1976..
A shergold Masquerader....

My first FX box was in 1978 - an electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi fuzz box !!! 😎