Your First Guitar?

[alashredder]

Re: Your First Guitar?

Age 13- A late 80's early 90's ESP M-1 bought by my dad. Had guitars come and go over the years and to be honest, it never matched that guitar. I really wished I had that guitar back.

 

[tnvol]

Re: Your First Guitar?

It was an Epiphone Strat copy. Had an Explorer Shaped HS. It wasnt too bad.

 

[Oudy]

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I still have mine (havnt played it since i was 16 though)


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epiphone les paul jr.

first acoustic i bought was some 800 dollar electric/acoustic classical guitar i gotfor 300 bucks from guitar center
first amp was a 10 watt kustom amp that was crap

 

[Iron Horse]

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My first electric: Tokai LS-85 F (bought it about two years ago)
First amp: Hughes & Kettner Edition Blue 60-R (again two years ago)

Before those, I played with my dad's old Fender and a Roland Micro Cube.

 

[Bender]

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64 jaguar with a ( believe it not ) Wurlizer 2/12 tube amp bought 'em in the early 70's for a rediculously low price of 150 bucks , ended up crashing the amp a couple of years later and sold the jag last year for 2 grand on ebay.. kinda wish now I'd kept her even as old as she was still worked and sounded great altho' had some noise because of the original wiring .

 

[eggman]

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Howdy,

In July 1979 I bought my first guitar: A Kent LP Custom copy in black. MIJ. Were these guitars any good? I didn't keep it long.
I'd just finished the 9th grade and lied about my age to get the job to earn the money to buy this guitar! LOL.

Eggman

 

[ImmortalSix]

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First Acoustic: 1974 Yamaha FG-160, made in Taiwan, Republic of China --- my dad's acoustic guitar, he still has it. Action about 3 inches off the board and more bass than a Civic with clear taillights :laughing:

First Electric: Made in U.S.A. Fender Stratocaster, 3-Color Sunburst, white guard and pups. As the story goes, my father always regretted not having better instruments, and I think that held him back from being a great player. As a big Hendrix and SRV fan, he went out lookin for a Stratocaster, and it had to be sunburst in honor of Stevie.

I had wanted an electric guitar, and I had picked out a "Nash" strat copy at our local store, about $100.

I had no idea how much a MIA Stratocaster cost until years later --- I was stunned that it was a real Fender, though, I do remember that

It was kind of one of those situations where a dad gets dirtbikes "for the kids" :laughing:

It really made my playing take off --- and I really appreciate the chance he took on me.

First Amp:
My dad had it from playing bass in a band some years before. No distortion for me until about 5 year later. I remember the first time I heard distortion and reverb, on a guitar I was playing, I was like HOLY HELL! I always figured (I was a young kid) I was playing it wrong and that if I played differently it would just sound like that. I had no idea that the amp was what did it.

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

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First Electric (age 14): Cort 3/4-scale Strat copy

First Amp (age 14): Gorilla -- not sure of the model, probably a GG-25 (below pic is from an eBay listing, not mine)

 

[KeeperOS]

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Hey, 4 years, 2 months and some change later and this thread is still going strong!

 

[Tor]

Re: Your First Guitar?

First acoustic after having played on mom's old nylon acoustic: a Cort...
First electric: Fender Squire Affinity Strat (with a humbucker)
First amp: Marshall MG15CD
First effect unit: a Zoom 606 II


Wow, that is a crappy setup.......

 

[McLaughysSN]

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First Acoustic: My dad's old '56 Gretsch New Yorker. I still love that thing like its going to give me grandchildren.

First Electric: Squier Affinity HSS strat. Actually. Not afriad to say it. Not a bad guitar. Eventually traded for a P.A. speaker though.

First Amp: My dad's old 70's univox solid state. Actually a pretty cool reverb tank in that thing i need to rape from it. Its in the corner of my room in pieces at the moment.


I can't really complain. I think the New Yorker will be passed onto my kid. That'll be an incredible feeling.

 

[The Golden Boy]

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First guitar was a Carlos brand acoustic. Really, the only guitar I really regret getting rid of. (I did have a Stella brand acoustic- but it was actually my uncle's)

First electric I owned was a Kalamazoo Strat style guitar. That thing sucked.

First bass I actually owned was my 71 EB-0.

First "real" electric I owned was my 72-74 Tele Custom- that guitar sucked too.

First guitar amp was a Kingston SS amp with a 2x12 cab. It sucked, but it had tremolo so I could play "Crimson And Clover."

First bass amp was a Yamaha SS combo. I think it was 100w and either a 1x15 or 1x12. I don't remember.

 

[Bludave]

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My first Electric was a Hagstrom II. It was painted like the "fool" SG that Clapton played with Cream. This was around 1967.

My first acoustic (which was my first guitar) my Mom bought me at Sears for $20.00.

My first amp was a Gemeni Reverb o Rocket. A very cool amp.

I don't remember what happened to the Acoustic (probably a Harmony)

I sold the Hagstrom for $50.00 to help fund my Jaguar (this was a 1963). The Jag was stolen...... I bought a 1968 SG Standard to replace it and I still have it.

The amp was sold to help pay for a better amp. I bought a 1966 Fender Vibrolux, which I used for several years, I eventually blew it up and went back to a Reverb o Rocket for a while. Eventually I wound up with a Super Reverb and a Marshall. I still have both of those today and I still use them.

 

[crusty philtrum]

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First Acoustic.....A Stella my parents bought me in England, I believe the original owner had bought in in Canada and taken it to the UK. It is impossible to tune but has THE sound of the blues. I was 10 years old when i got it, i am 51 now. It is still here with me, in the next room. Has a few holes drilled in it from my early attempts at fitting pickups way back then.

First Electric..... A red Top Twenty solid body I also aquired in England when i was about 14. After my curiosity found me taking the pickup cover off and seeing a thousand miles of coil wire go flying across the room, I got an Audition solid body which i played to death and bought with me to Australia at age 15.

First Amp..... A WEM Dominator !!! The original 18 watt !! (2 x EL84's). It had a pair of 10" Celestions. I would have been 15. Over the next few years i had to tinker with it until it no longer worked. I have felt such guilt about that, and i think that has been a big part of the fact that i have become a tube amp builder and repairer, specialising in EL84 amps.

Sigh. Looking back, the follies of youth that we get to live with for the rest of our lives..... (looks down and feet and shuffles quietly out of the room....)......

 

[krankguitarist]

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First Guitar (that I owned): DeArmond Starfire hollowbody @ age 14

First Acoustic (that I owned): Taylor 310ce @ age 18

First Amp (that I owned): Marshall JCM800 2203 @ age 16

The guitar that I learned on was my dad's MIM strat

The acoustic that i learned on was my dad's mid-70's Guild Dreadnought

The amp that I learned on was my dad's Crate GX-25...or something like that.

 

[weisserj]

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the first guitar was one my dad gave me. It was his 1978 sunburst Fender Mustang (he wasnt in to electric guitar anymore). I forget how old I was but I played it into my dad's Roland 120 watt Jazz Chorus.

 

[Sanford]

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My first acoustic: Oscar-Schmidt dreadnought body, parents ordered it from the "AAFES" Christmas catalog around 1986-ish. Came with a thin blue gig bag and was difficult to play. I was about 15 years old.

My first electric: Yamaha RGX-220. Recommended to me by my metal-head buddy ("See, these are humbuckers...it's like having four pickups, dude!"). Bought it sometime in 1987 and it was a total turd. But it had a locking whammy bridge that resembled a stunted growth Floyd Rose and it convinced me that I never wanted another locking bridge system ever. The tone knob was a push-push coil splitter for both humbuckers. The spring popped on it when I tried to pull the knob off to reposition the dot indicator, so I had to decide whether I wanted humbuckers or singles. I decided to wedge the metal pocket clip off of a government issue ball point pen into the pot so that it stayed in humbucker mode. After a while I didn't dig the dog penis red paint job, so I used brillo pads and Zip Strip to take the paint off (actually convinced my art teacher to give me a grade on it as a project...B if I recall correctly). After the clear coat came off I spray painted the body with black and blue paints in a pseudo-burst pattern, but it developed air bubbles and further ugliness which prompted the total removal of the paint and a couple applications of Old English dark furniture polish. It actually looked cooler, the polish accented the grain of whatever-the-fook the wood was.

My first amp: Killer-Watt 15 watt solid state (10 inch speaker?), loud in the bedroom...shyte ridden tone. But the Boss DS-1 pedal helped a little. Eventually the amp sounded "weird" as it was 220 volt and I had taken it back to the USA and played it 110 with nothing more than an adaptor to allow the round plugs to fit the blade outlets we have here. Did I ruin it with insufficient voltage and mismatched Hz cycles? Who cares, it too was a turd.


Edit: I no longer possess any of the above equipment. The acoustic got sold to a lesbian who doesn't know gear from true-love, the electric got traded (with some cash) to a rip-off artist for a strat that met an unfortunate end during an exhibition of frustration and anger. I don't recall what happened to the amp, I probably just trashed it during a move...or did I leave it behind when I moved out of the Wiccan swingers' house? Whatever, hope they're making somebody else's lives miserable.