BOUGHT, SOLD & TRADED BY NEVILLE MARTEN

“As 2021 dawned, I was sure my current set of instruments was what I’d still have at the end. How wrong was I? First, I decided I needed a home recorder to jot ideas down, so duly bought a Zoom R16 on which I quickly wrote and recorded a song then never touched it again. Next was a Fiesta Red Custom Shop Fender Precision; I actually bought this outright, but it’s now gone (as you’ll discover in my commentary on page 76). I then traded my Martin OM-28 Reimagined for a CS Gibson Hummingbird, purely as a stage guitar for its spectacular looks. It’s brilliant, too. “Then came the Daphne Blue Telecaster that I’d so hankered after but which, when it came, didn’t match my ’52-style Butterscotch one. So that went in a trade for a Matchless Lightning 15 Reverb as I didn’t really own a decent pub amp. I’m now in the middle of creating a pedalboard, more of which in a later Neville’s Advocate…”