Studio California

Phone: (707) 606-2076

Studio California and Paul Wilczynski In 1964. I picked up my first guitar--a Japanese-made cheap acoustic that belonged to a friend. I had little idea about quality or playability. It was hard to fret, must've sounded pretty bad, but, hey! it was a guitar, and I could pick out notes if I sat there with it long enough. Yeah, my fingers bled. I began to absorb anything I could read on guitars, and from the start, I was crazy about a sunburst Fender Jaguar I saw in a shop window in downtown Chicago. It was my dream guitar. All those switches and buttons! Carl Wilson played a white one, and I loved the crisp, percussive sound he got out of it, playing through a tube reverb unit and his Dual Showman. So, for awhile (about 15 months), Fenders were IT as far as I was concerned. Then I played my first Rickenbacker.