4.52am Issue: 008 13th November 2016

work. I don’t think you'll ever see a
standard line of guitars from me.”
He starts pacing at this point, waiters,
bodyguards and myself only following him
with our eyes,
“I tend to be inspired as with the Sunset
Strip, either by a memory or maybe I'll see
a neck or a body and that will set my
thought process off, for instance my next
build has been brought about by a
particular type of neck becoming available
and in that moment, a Telemaster body
I've had on the bench for a while, not really
knowing where to go with has come into
focus. I'm a bit worried that one will turn
out a bit 'Hipster' but we'll see.”
May I ask about the White Esquire?
“That was a special I built for 'Sony
Recording Artist and Guest Vocalist on the
last Chase & Status single Tom Grennan. He
is an amazing musician and I was really
pleased to be see something I had built in
such talented hands. It is these little things,
that make the…”
At this point, outside of the restaurant, a car
backfired and within a second I found
myself facedown on the floor with twenty
stone of bodyguard sat on my back.
By the time I regained my feet Don Ricci
had been smuggled out of a rear exit.
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