This is my first electric guitar. I bought it when I was 15 from bandmate Harold Morgan in the summer of 1974. I paid the princely sum of $15 for it - all money I had earned playing drums in our band: "Steamin'" (1974-76). Yeah, I know. Anyway, this is the guitar that I learned to play on.

I've only ever seen one other guitar like it. That one was at Songbird Music in Toronto. Theirs still had the name plate: Kingston. That's how I finally identified mine because it has no identifiers anywhere inside or out. Theirs was also a violin shape but in a red-burst finish. It had cream P-90's. The pick-ups in my guitar have brass base-plates. It's a very odd piece.

The only modification I made was strictly for mid-70's shock value. As soon as I got it I applied leopard-print Mac-Tac all over the tortoise-shell pick-guard. (At least I didn't paint it.)

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