It's 2017 and Midge Marsden, now a household name across the country, is embarking on what he says is his swansong, to a career that started out in New Plymouth in the early 1960s.
Enamoured with the new sounds he was hearing as the Beatles and other groups out of Britain began to invade even ultra-conservative New Zealand radio, Midge bought a really expensive Fender Stratocaster guitar.
Although he couldn't play a note, word got out around the Taranaki music community about the guitar.
Long story short, Midge was soon learning his trade as rhythm guitarist in a hot new band, Bari and the Breakaways.
Between 1964 and 1967 Bari and the Breakaways lived the dream, based in Wellington but gigging in towns and cities on both islands.