WOLF HOFFMAN

“All the instruments came from either America or Britain, and most of the acts that we listened to were coming from the UK. Ibanez didn’t exist, so Gibson and Fender were really the only choices – and Framus, but those were sort of the beginner models and lower-priced guitars that everybody had. But now, they’re making really high-quality instruments; they’re completely different. My first cheapo electric was a department store guitar, which was maybe a $50 hand-me-down. I can’t remember what model it was, but it had four pickups, if you can believe that. Luckily, I was good friends with the local guitar store owner and he always let us just take stuff to rehearsal to try, so I constantly schlepped stuff into the studio – amps, pedals, guitars – every week, literally, for years. It was crazy, but great.”