danglybanger
ReelItInologist
Re: Your first good guitar - do you tend to stick to ones similar to it?
No. My first "real" guitar was an acoustic (acoustics have never seemed comfortable to me), and my first real electric was a Jay Turser Spirite, in electric piss yellow (see http://www.jayturser.com/jt-future.htm to see it in all its ugliness). So ugly my mom wouldn't let me keep it in public view because "it blinded her". Bought it for 90 bucks on ebay. An ok guitar at first (I call it my first GOOD guitar because for a few months it stayed set up fairly well, and was fine to play unplugged and the neck was a nice shape), aside from the fact that it was extremely uncomfortable to play sitting down (no body), the bridge and tuners were of horrible quality, and the neck did some fishy things after I'd had it for about a year. The nut was a piece of nickel, supported by two screws, the wavy finish chipped away to reveal large sections of the plywood body. The bridge humbucker sounded brighter than any single coil I've ever heard. it made sense, cause when I opened it up to change the neck pickup to a DD Scorcher, I was able to marvel at the eternally f*cked up wiring.
After nearly 3 years of proud ownership, I almost sold it to some guy who lived at the dorms with me for 100 bucks, then felt guilty about about it and lowered the price to 80. Which is better than the 60 bucks GC offered for it. After about a week of playing it, he declared "Dude, this thing sucks" and sold it to the San Bernardino Guitar Center, where it can be found now, remarkably with a price tag of $250 (fifty dollars more than my schecter cost), and labeled as an "upgraded collectors item".
So in other words, I NEVER want a guitar like that again. I can't really say I'm attracted to any style above another, so long as it's got a relatively slim neck and a good sound. Early sixties Gibsons, Superstrats, Teles, pretty much all appeal to me, probably because none of them remind me of of my first guitar.
Dan
No. My first "real" guitar was an acoustic (acoustics have never seemed comfortable to me), and my first real electric was a Jay Turser Spirite, in electric piss yellow (see http://www.jayturser.com/jt-future.htm to see it in all its ugliness). So ugly my mom wouldn't let me keep it in public view because "it blinded her". Bought it for 90 bucks on ebay. An ok guitar at first (I call it my first GOOD guitar because for a few months it stayed set up fairly well, and was fine to play unplugged and the neck was a nice shape), aside from the fact that it was extremely uncomfortable to play sitting down (no body), the bridge and tuners were of horrible quality, and the neck did some fishy things after I'd had it for about a year. The nut was a piece of nickel, supported by two screws, the wavy finish chipped away to reveal large sections of the plywood body. The bridge humbucker sounded brighter than any single coil I've ever heard. it made sense, cause when I opened it up to change the neck pickup to a DD Scorcher, I was able to marvel at the eternally f*cked up wiring.
After nearly 3 years of proud ownership, I almost sold it to some guy who lived at the dorms with me for 100 bucks, then felt guilty about about it and lowered the price to 80. Which is better than the 60 bucks GC offered for it. After about a week of playing it, he declared "Dude, this thing sucks" and sold it to the San Bernardino Guitar Center, where it can be found now, remarkably with a price tag of $250 (fifty dollars more than my schecter cost), and labeled as an "upgraded collectors item".
So in other words, I NEVER want a guitar like that again. I can't really say I'm attracted to any style above another, so long as it's got a relatively slim neck and a good sound. Early sixties Gibsons, Superstrats, Teles, pretty much all appeal to me, probably because none of them remind me of of my first guitar.
Dan
