When they weren't penning a string of hits in the 1980s, Jim Babjak and the Smithereens were writing for other artists and projects, but sometimes, those worlds collided.
When the band adopted A Girl Like You, which would become one of their biggest hits, Babjak knew his go-to Gibson SG didn't have the bite needed to make it work, and he bought the guitar used in its place without even playing it.
