Dr. Ellwood Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 My first real guitar was a Fender Musicmaker.. and amp was a Ampeg Reverbarocket. http://www.thestringnetwork.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollock Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 My first was a Samick Acoustic. It was my friend's first guitar, and when he got a new one, he sold it to me for $60. I still have it and I intend to keep it forever. my band: http://www.blujavu.com www.myspace.com/blujavu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Still have it! Holy shit, was it really 25 years ago? Thanks dad! http://home.netcom.com/~billster/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/electra.jpg BTW, another lesson learned was that you should look for lasting quality and not the quick fix. How many of those legendary crappy first guitars are still in use ? Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollock Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Originally posted by Billster: still in use ? Are the clean and distorted tones both from that guitar? They sound great! my band: http://www.blujavu.com www.myspace.com/blujavu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar55 Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Originally posted by ellwood: My first real guitar was a Fender Musicmaker.. and amp was a Ampeg Reverbarocket. The greatest amp ever made!!! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar55 Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Originally posted by henryrobinett: Oh man, I have a great story about my first electric guitar. ,,,. Great story, Henry! Mine is not quite so noble... I was 12 and had been playing a Framus acoustic for 2 years and wanted an electric badly. I asked for one for Christmas. A few weeks before the big day I found where my parents had hidden the gifts. There was a red Harmony electric and a Fender Priceton amp. I was out of my mind with excitement. Finally, Christmas Eve arrived...I went to bed...but not to sleep...I got up in the middle of the night and went to check on my new baby...there under the tree were the gifts for my brother and sisters and a few small thing for me...but to my utter HORROR...NO GUITAR!!! I was sick about it..they must know that I found it and now I'm being punished....I went back to bed no longer hopeful for the morning. When I awoke, I reluctantly walked out of my room and the sun was shining through the drapes in the dining room, outling the shape of a guitar case..I ran to it and pulled back the drapes and there it was! Redemption had somehow come to me!! My parents stood there with mouths agape...turns out they had devised an elaborate scheme...a note in my stocking attached to a string that wound its way around the house, eventually leading to the guitar behind the drapes. The couldn't believe I had just SEEN it there! Finally, a few years ago I told them the whole story and they were shocked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Originally posted by crazyguitarist11: quote:Originally posted by Billster: still in use ? Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluesape Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 My brother and I were each given a P.O.S. classical for x-mas when we were preteens. Some know-it-all friend of my parents put steel strings on them and twisted the necks all to hell. My brother's guitar was a casualty of an "El Cabong" incident(I knew better than to club him with my own guitar). My guitar lasted a couple of years longer until I foolishly took it on a school outing, where some inbreeds smashed it to pieces. But before that, I'd just gotten home from a Blind Faith concert in Phoenix, and worked out "Sunshine of Your Love", which they closed the show with. My first real guitar is a '71 Tele that I stiil have. Never a DUH! moment! Well, almost never. OK, OK! Sometimes never! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodlesbad Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Here it is: My 1976 Mann. A Les Paul clone, as you can see. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/noodlesbad/awfulmann.jpg Mann sold guitars manufactured by Ibanez and a few other Japanese factories for the Canadian market. It's a decent starter guitar, though I would have preferred the frets were a little less flat. The previous owner had replaced the tuning machines with Schallers. National Capital Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Geezer Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Whoever resurrected this oldie - great choice Teisco Del Ray from Gibsons Discount Center - Christmas 1966 or 67 (Oldtimers disease) along with a noname SS amp. You did say first ...right Lynn G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Museeip Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Mine was a Peavey Patriot. I still remember trading that in when an older more experienced player(guy worked at the store) tried to convince me to keep it. He said "replace the pickups and this think would rock. Killer neck on this", but nooooo...of course I needed to get a piece of crap Kramer cause Eddie had one...Of course before the Peavey I had a tennis racket with a cardboard Strat shape taped to it. Now that thing ROCKED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneManBand Marc Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 My 1st electric guitar was I believe a Sears model, kinda Strat copy. It was in my best friends closet, it had belonged to his dad. It had a sunburst finish on it but we, with out asking his dad, painted it red kinda like Red Eddie Van Halen guitar except we had black stripes. We plugged it into the phono jack on a cheap stereo. Not to long after that my friend bought a cheap bass which got plugged into the other side of the stereo and I bought a DOD Heavy Metal distortion pedal and we were rockin. 1st acoustic I bought from a summer job arround grade 8... that guitar was a knuckle buster with real high action and was hard to play. I'm glad I/we had that 1st guitar lying around for insperation but in the end the desire I had to play that guitar at age 12? was the worst and best decision I have ever made. The One Man Band Marc Dobson the most fun thing I've ever done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoes Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 My first guitar was a Pan Les Paul Custom copy (black beauty) It was perfect.... all but for how it played.... and sounded... other than that it was absolutely beautiful I have one out of focus picture of me playing it when I was 14(?) and I've never been able to find another image of this exact guitar anywhere. Interestingly I did bump into the guy who bought it from the music shop where I traded it at a bus station. Still had my stickers all over the case and it looked like it was his first guitar the way he was holding on to the case. Took me 25 years to get a real replacement. I still think guitars are like shoes, but louder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caprae Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Early 70s Gibson J-40 acoustic bought around '75. Obviously in excellent shape. Would love to play that puppy now just to see what it was like. The only thing I can claim is that I did get more for it than what I paid. Sold in in the early 80's. Raise your children and spoil your grandchildren. Spoil your children and raise your grandchildren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PickPunk Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 my first guitar is an oooooollllld epiphone acoustic that was given to me by my uncle last summer. shortly after, in october, i got my first(and only) electric, a cherry epiphone sg special. I originally started playing bass though, when i was 11 (im 15 now). My first bass was a second-hand, black on black (pickguard and finish) vantage PJ bass. That was a pretty sweet bass but i sold it to my brother for 80 bucks after i got my ibanez SR300DX (which i still have, although im mainly a guitarist now). peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPCustom Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Originally posted by Billster: Still have it! Holy shit, was it really 25 years ago? Thanks dad! Billster, was your response about my post? If so, that was 35 years ago. And, yes, I thank my dad every time I get a check for doing something I love doing (playing guitar). That old Blue Ridge is 37 years old, now (made in 1968 according to Gibson). Does that make it an antique? Just wondering. Don't know how long it takes a musical instrument to become an antique. With furniture it's 75 years. With cars it's 25 years. How long is it for musical instruments? Born on the Bayou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RabbitWerx Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 New "Vibra" Tele copy for $100 around 1981. Warning: Not very interesting story follows... They had two at the local store: a black one and a white one. I was a kid who was ga-ga over Cheap Trick at the time and (in my mind at least) the white one was just like the one Robin Zander played in the Budokan video. I put a deposit down on the white one and scambled home to get the rest of the money. When I got back, the white one was gone and the owner said he had sold the white one and that "there wasn't any difference between them anyways". Apparently he had *not* seen the Cheap Trick video. So I took the black one home and plugged it into the stereo (an amp came many months later) and had at it. It was a miserable guitar with lousy action and terrible tone that ate strings at the bridge saddles regularly, but it was a hell of a lot better than not having a guitar. I wish I'd kept it as a wall trophy after all these years... "I see a lot of choppin', but no chips are flyin'" - Foghorn Leghorn www.rabbitwerx.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billster Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Originally posted by LPCustom77: Originally posted by Billster: Still have it! Holy shit, was it really 25 years ago? Thanks dad! Billster, was your response about my post? If so, that was 35 years ago. And, yes, I thank my dad every time I get a check for doing something I love doing (playing guitar). That old Blue Ridge is 37 years old, now (made in 1968 according to Gibson). Does that make it an antique? Just wondering. Don't know how long it takes a musical instrument to become an antique. With furniture it's 75 years. With cars it's 25 years. How long is it for musical instruments? That was a general response to the "first guitars" theme. It's great when your parents give you the opportunity to pursue your interests, as opposed to the stereotypical overbearing parent that lives vicariously through the kids (But you must play football! ) I don't know how old it has to be to label "antique". Most I've seen use the term "vintage" for anything they want to inflate the price on. Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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