Uploaded August 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Eddie Phillips was born on August 15, 1942. He started playing guitar when he was 14. That was in about 1956/1957. He had been hearing records like "Rock Around The Clock." He recalls being in on the skiffle craze and rehearsing with neighborhood pals in the bathrooms of whoever's parents and families happened to be out that day- the reasoning being that the sound reverberated through the plumbing and the drains. That way, the sound was amplified! Eddie's first guitar cost him only four pounds and he claims he played it in the wrong tuning for three months, not realizing what he was doing. He bought himself a mail order kit to build his own amplifier. When it was all assembled, it consisted of a chassis with the guts, speaker and parts of an amp with no surrounding cabinetry to contain the amp. He used it anyway by plugging in a cheap microphone and dropping it into the F hole of the guitar. His first good guitar was a Futurama with a three-way toggle switch. It was an Italian model that looked a lot like a Fender Stratocaster. Eddie has described it as a "brilliant guitar" and that "Tony Sheridan played one." Somewhere along 1963/1964, Eddie bought a beautiful Gibson ES-335 and a Vox AC30 amp on time payments.

Track Listings

1. Riffmaster [02:15]
2. Spirit Called Love [05:13]
3. How Does It Feel [04:04]
4. Hi Heel Sneekers [04:39]
5. The Jimi Hendrix Trilogy [09:19]
6. Midnight Hour [03:36]
7. Teacher, Teacher [02:59]
8. Riffmaster Of The Western World [05:32]
9. Mumbo Jumbo [04:11]

Playing Time.........: 41:51