Silence Kid
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Re: Would you sell the first guitar you ever had?
At one point, I'd have considered selling my first guitar; now, I never would. Not only do I seem to enjoy it more now on a practical level, but it was my dad's '76 Takamine and he died last year. Visited my mom and found these: My Dad with his Takamine (and my mom) in the late 1970s:
Here he is with the same Takamine in the early '90s (I'm in the pic but not ready to admit which one I might be: )
Dad gave it to me (or I absconded with the guitar, to his approval) when I was fifteen or so, ~2000 . Here's the same guitar now; note the chairs from the above pic, which I saved by getting to the house before the trash man (my dad's favorite - and the only ones that are comfortable on my thighs as well somehow. My mom throws things away with such quickness that I became a very paranoid person: )
Also pictured: Part of my dad's record collection, and my uncle's bass amp. Nice to inherit things and be able to see stuff like that.
I sold my first electric (a crappy-ish plywood Jay Turser) and my first bass (an Epiphone EB-0 that wasn't at all what I wanted at the time) early on, and I don't really regret doing that; even if every so often I get pangs of wanting aspects of them back.
At one point, I'd have considered selling my first guitar; now, I never would. Not only do I seem to enjoy it more now on a practical level, but it was my dad's '76 Takamine and he died last year. Visited my mom and found these: My Dad with his Takamine (and my mom) in the late 1970s:
Here he is with the same Takamine in the early '90s (I'm in the pic but not ready to admit which one I might be: )
Dad gave it to me (or I absconded with the guitar, to his approval) when I was fifteen or so, ~2000 . Here's the same guitar now; note the chairs from the above pic, which I saved by getting to the house before the trash man (my dad's favorite - and the only ones that are comfortable on my thighs as well somehow. My mom throws things away with such quickness that I became a very paranoid person: )
Also pictured: Part of my dad's record collection, and my uncle's bass amp. Nice to inherit things and be able to see stuff like that.
I sold my first electric (a crappy-ish plywood Jay Turser) and my first bass (an Epiphone EB-0 that wasn't at all what I wanted at the time) early on, and I don't really regret doing that; even if every so often I get pangs of wanting aspects of them back.