What was the first serious guitar that you bought with your own money? It probably would be a ’63 ES-335 like the one Clapton used at the Albert Hall [for Cream’s Farewell gig in November 1968]. I found it in a music store for, like, $300 many, many years ago. I had a ’66 335 that my father helped me get when I was 12, but I found this other one when I was about 18 or 19. At the time, I didn’t know that Clapton had played a 335.