This is a thread for those who play Electric guitars only!

Godin15

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I am a guy who play's Electric guitars only. For those of you who do tell us what draws you to only play electric. Myself when I was a teenager and grew up in the 60s I was fascinated with rock roll music. All these guys were playing electric guitars. The sounds they were making was inviting to my ears. I was intrigued by the way those gents made their guitars sing. I remember saying to my parents that I would really like to play electric guitar like those guy's on Tv which was at that time the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. Watching them on a black and white television man times have changed. So about a year after I said to my parents I would like to play electric guitar they surprised me with a new Harmony electric man I was so excited words can't explain. I was about twelve at the time. Was playing not bad you know as a young kid your mind goes in many directions then just dropped out of it. But I never forgot about playing electric and as I became older always remembered that guitar. Wished I'd never gave it up. But a few yrs ago got back at it and never have looked back. My instructor tells me he can't believe what I can play and what I have learned in such a short time. Don't get me wrong i'm not blowing my own horn. To be able to play and sing the songs that I have enjoyed so much from that era is very fulfilling to me. To be able to play the electric is a dream come true.
 
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Like you I miss my first guitar a little. While my skill level tends to remain livingroom noodler status with spurts of learning over the years my love of guitars hasn't seemed to wain one bit since I first wanted one at 11. That would have been about 1972 when I really noticed the connection of girls digging guys that rawked. :wave: :saeek:

Got an Ibanez LP in the Summer of 1977. I've been a mess ever since. :headbang:

I do have one acoustic but rarely play it and even recycle a set of electric strings on it after string changes on my electrics.
 
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still have my first one : Aria Strat 1984, and never stopped playing ever since.
 
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Still got my first one too, Squier Strat 1997. Turns 20 next year!
 
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I still have my first (pictured below)!
I bought it with my eighth-grade graduation money, used from the friend of a friend for $75 with a Teisco Checkmate 10 amp.
It's a MIJ National Telecaster-copy. No idea what year it is, but I got it used in June '73.

Good for you, OP, for rediscovering your love for guitar! A guitar has never been far from me, although there were years when I didn't have the time to play as much as I would have liked.

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I can't play an acoustic to save my life.........
 
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I just never felt inspired to buy an acoustic. To me, they were always sort of boring and I always felt a little let down when I'd see a band bring one out.
 
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Comfort is it for me.
I'd rather play my cleans on an electric for that reason alone, and I'm not doing many campfire parties these days anyway.
 
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My first guitar was an Ibanez DT250 Destroyer. ..What a way to start lol! Still have it...though it's gone through many...many changes since :D. Got into guitar playing in the late 80's (ie ..the golden years, as far as I'm concerned \m/ ) and never looked back, though I had to quit for 5 years in between due to Carpal Tunnel related problems. The reason I started playing electric guitar was to play metal ...and that's everything from AC/DC to Accept to Yngwie to Slayer & Death (yeah..it was all "metal" back then) ...and that's always been my main driving force/inspiration. While I'm happy for those who play acoustics....I'm even happier that they're the ones playing them (and not me :laugh2:). I just prefer the sound/look/feel etc of electrics & acoustics have never had any appeal at all.
 
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For me, electrics have the tones, the power and the excitement that I love to listen to, and what inspires me to play. I was in my teens in the late 1960's/early 1970's (the real golden years of rock), when great electric guitarists were emerging on a regular basis. They changed music and most of what we listen to today was heavily influenced by them.

You know, we don't tell acoustic players: 'You have to play electric, or you're not much of a player.' We're mature enough not to do that. We respect them as fellow musicians, just as we respect bassists, keyboard players, drummers, etc. It's their choice. We're all in this together. So why do some acoustic players feel they need to look down on us as inferior? If they really were as happy and fulfilled as they claim to be, playing the instruments they want, would they need to act like they're superior to us? The fact that someone plays several instruments doesn't automatically prove anything; they can be mediocre on all of them. While there are talented people who are accomplished musicians on a variety of instruments, that's not the norm. Most people aren't able to be equally great players on multiple instruments. But we're all supposed to strive for that? Music is about your passions, not meeting someone else's arbitrary standards.
 
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You are seeing more electric guitars being used in country music these days. With country turning more to rock style sounds like Hillbilly Rock. The electric guitar is so versatile for many kinds of music. Solos on electric can be sensational.
 
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I'm not old.

I don't play either kind of music. (Country or Western.)
 
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dominus said:
I don't play either kind of music. (Country or Western.)
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Whatever happened to 'Country and Western'?

Most 'Country' anymore is highly commercial pop music, with twangy vocals (in a fake accent) and a little lap steel guitar; just enough so that the record companies can give it the allusion of being 'Country.' Today's Country is as real as professional wrestling.
 
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dominus said:
I'm not old.

I don't play either kind of music. (Country or Western.)
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blueman335 said:
Whatever happened to 'Country and Western'?
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Can a guy who plays acoustic too chime in here about why he likes electric guitar?

I was a teenager in the eighties, which was a time when EVERY rock band out there had a hot lead guitarist, they all had long hair, they all wore leather, and they all ****ed just about anything that moved... and I wanted in! I started playing back in 1984, but unfortunately I just couldn't figure out how to play an electric guitar back then... at least not in the way I was hearing on my tapes (remember cassette tapes?) My guitar teacher (who did a good otherwise) didn't really explain to me that acoustic and electric guitars were really such different instruments even though they share a lot of similarities. My problem was that I was trying to play acoustic-styled stuff on an electric and expecting it come out sounding like Judas Priest!

Particularly in the last 3-4 years I have really learned a ton for actually playing electric and now have a tendency to favor it as well. I love the speed of the fretboard and ease of bending. I love the huge variety of tones and effects you can add through your rig. I love understanding the wiring along with the ins and outs of different types of pickups and the ways they can be used. There are just so many more components to electric guitar that keep my curiosity piqued... and it's just fun and badass to be able to play riffs and leads in the classic rock band I'm a member of.

In response to the whole "first electric guitar" thing... I regret that I no longer have mine. I lost it in the fire that damaged my current #1 (1985 Westone Spectrum LX - "The Phoenix"). It was a cheap Lotus LP Jr knockoff... couldn't even tell you the model... but I loved it! Here's a pic of an 18-year-old BriGuy holding it, though, back in 1986... complete with leather pants! :fing2:

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BriGuy1968 said:
Can a guy who plays acoustic too chime in here about why he likes electric guitar?

I was a teenager in the eighties, which was a time when EVERY rock band out there had a hot lead guitarist, they all had long hair, they all wore leather, and they all ****ed just about anything that moved... and I wanted in! I started playing back in 1984, but unfortunately I just couldn't figure out how to play an electric guitar back then... at least not in the way I was hearing on my tapes (remember cassette tapes?) My guitar teacher (who did a good otherwise) didn't really explain to me that acoustic and electric guitars were really such different instruments even though they share a lot of similarities. My problem was that I was trying to play acoustic-styled stuff on an electric and expecting it come out sounding like Judas Priest!

Particularly in the last 3-4 years I have really learned a ton for actually playing electric and now have a tendency to favor it as well. I love the speed of the fretboard and ease of bending. I love the huge variety of tones and effects you can add through your rig. I love understanding the wiring along with the ins and outs of different types of pickups and the ways they can be used. There are just so many more components to electric guitar that keep my curiosity piqued... and it's just fun and badass to be able to play riffs and leads in the classic rock band I'm a member of.

In response to the whole "first electric guitar" thing... I regret that I no longer have mine. I lost it in the fire that damaged my current #1 (1985 Westone Spectrum LX - "The Phoenix"). It was a cheap Lotus LP Jr knockoff... couldn't even tell you the model... but I loved it! Here's a pic of an 18-year-old BriGuy holding it, though, back in 1986... complete with leather pants! :fing2:

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Briguy. When I look at that guitar it reminds me of my B.C.Rich Eagle1 Arch top Onyx.DSCI0493.jpg
 
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