Juran inquired, but the owner wanted someone with formal training. In the summer of ’79, Haggerty’s Musicworks opened in Rapid City and was looking for someone to do guitar setup and repair.
Some weeks they’d play once, others might be every night. Giving lessons during the day fit well with his gig in a country/rock band that played bars and clubs in a 150-mile radius.
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In the fall of ’77, he bailed on manual labor and started teaching guitar, running the Tele through an MXR Distortion+ and his ’59 narrow-panel Deluxe. Scratching that itch every guitarist feels, after a couple years and with money in his pocket, he traded the ES-120 and a couple hundred bucks for a used maple-neck Telecaster. My teacher, who bought and sold guitars and amps, was able to get $40 for the Stratotone.”Īfter graduating in ’74, Juran began working a job laying water and sewer lines. “Right away, I called my mother and told her I’d sell the Stratotone to help pay for it,” he said.
That spring, he popped into the local Gibson shop and spotted a new ES-120 with a sale price of $150. But, by his junior year at Rapid City Stevens High School (in South Dakota), Juran had outgrown the short-scale Stratotone and was on the lookout for something new. The guitar served him well through his first years learning to read music, memorizing notes on the fretboard, and developing the muscle memory involved in chording. He also loved guitars, and the second-hand Harmony Stratotone he used to start lessons in the summer of 1967 was his following-in-dad’s-footsteps dream instrument. Like many baby-boomer kids, 11-year-old Vern Juran was into slot-car racing and bikes with ape-hanger handlebars, banana seats, and sissy bars.
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