MUSICAL BOX: Stagefright

Dave Evans

I GOT MY first guitar at the age of about seven, I think. Eight, maybe. It was a child-sized acoustic. Actually I may have had a toy one before that - I would have been about three.

I was probably about ten or eleven when I got my first full-size acoustic. I was more or less self-taught, apart from a couple of informal lessons at school that didn’t real…