it was a red stupid shaped hollow-body called"kimberly" along with a 25 watt tube amp called 'domino'--it all costed 80.00--thats what i had left from the 100.00 bar-mitzvah presents i had. the other 20.00 went for a 6-string folk guitar which i spent the summer of 1971 struggling with to no avail.
they needed a bass player in the jr high jazz band-i wanted to take home a bull fiddle--they wouldn't let me-so i got the electric version--spent study hall in the closet of the babd-room teaching myself the bull-fiddle--the bullies couldn't find me there.
for that 80.00 spent on 9/18/1971--it started a multi-decade journey which if it didn't make me special--it certainly made me different--and on that i prospered-more than i would ever realize on that day
"got my first real 4-string/ in the fall of 1971/-turned it upside down and backwards-yeah--then it was time to have some fun'
Steve Lieberman
"Summer of '449"
Jew in the Underground
2005
