roger bayliss wrote: Duane Eddy and Eddie Cochran had told of how players would buy a regular set of strings and an extra first or light banjo string, move them over one and throw away the bottom string. This opened up a whole new world to us".
When you commented on this, I remember in the sixties when Cream recorded 'Strange Brew' Clapton mentioned in either Melody Maker or one of the magazines of the time that to obtain the high bend in the solo, he used a banjo string in place of the normal first string. I started doing this after reading this story, but I'd never heard of changing all the strings and missing out the low e. But then, we already had light gauge by this time.
Hugh.