Billster Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Who still has their first guitar? I've got mine (Thanks dad!). If you don't, what happened to it? Buy my CD on CD Baby! Bill Hartzell - the website MySpace?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Ohmigod... Geez...my very first guitar was a 1/2 size student acoustic made in Europe (Germany, I think). It was sort of a mahogany color all over. My mom bought it for me when I was about 7 or 8. It sat for years...I never knew how to tune it. My cousin Ann showed me once, but I forgot. I busted a string on it horsing around. Before I knew anything about guitar, I'd tune it to strange tunings, use a butter knife for a slide...loosen the strings so it'd buzz like a sitar...whatever. Then, one day, when I was about 12 or 13...a guy from Sarnia, Ontario, showed me how to tune the thing. Still had 5 strings. So I learned all my open chords like that...finally had to change 'em when I put new strings on it. I really don't have a clue what happened to it after that...I bought a cheesy electric not long after...then went on to bigger and better. I still remember the smell of that acoustic...it smelled sort of like Elmer's glue and wood. Alas... "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 My first guitar was a Grand Prix acoustic. I used to carry it around on my back everywhere I went. One day the strap came loose and the guitar did a face plant, effectively snapping off it's head. Boy was I ever bummed. I spent months trying to repair it, but I just couldn't get the head to stay on once the pressure of the strings was added. Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Base Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 It was a Tanglewood Les Paul copy, wood finish fading to black edges that I very cheesily put a transfer of a skull with a rose in it's mouth on the body. Cheap cream pick-ups and silver hardware. And I do still have it, but it is stringless at the moment. It has spent time sat on top of my grandparents wardrobe, doesn't sound very good and I keep it for sentimental reasons (more so now as my parents gave me the money to buy it for my 18th birthday!!!). Last year I decided to do something with it and bought some second hand gold pickups and gold bridge & tail piece (supposedly from a genuine Les Paul, but I have my doubts) off ebay. And they didn't fit properly, d'oh!!! I was thinking of getting back to trying to get the rest of the bits I need and finish what I started, was going to ask for some advice on here, shall get around to it soon.... Fa Fa FA Fa fa fa fa fa FA fa FA FA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funk Jazz Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 when my older brother joined the air force i promptly traded his snowboard (a burton backhill) for a black les paul copy. for the life of me, i can't remember what i did with that guitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J J Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 in 6th grade i got a mini (not roadie-mini) Epiphone Les Paul Junior I dont have it anymore because my brother secretly sold it and a friend of mine said he saw it in a music store (it had the same chips that were on my guitar) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklava Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Epi-DOT Had nothing but bad luck with that guitar, later found out the guy who sold it to me walked in to a music store grabbed it off the wall and ran out of the store with it. So I traded it for a teisco, red with four pickups and like a hundred switches that did nothing. http://www.songbirdmusic.com/productimage/et400.jpg It was like this blue one only Red. First lick I learned was Who knows Jimi The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolead Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I still got mine. Then again, I've only been playing about 2.5 years. Still, it's nice to keep my old Epiphone around. It's a vintage '77 model, so I love it, it just doesn't have the best overdriven tones. Clean sounds great, but I like a good crunch too. But, I do intend to keep her forever. Shut up and play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbo_Tangent Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 My first guitar was 100% plastic, an Emenee, which was never seriously intended to be played in any musical sense, and required retuning every 2 minutes or so. The only reason it was played was because I was incredibly stubborn and stupid. Once I got something far better (a Teisco Del Rey) I took great pleasure in setting the plastic one on fire and watching it rejoin its petrochem-based brothers in guitar heaven... Phil Tangent Studios http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Tangent2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sauce Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 yeah, i've still got mine. black korean strat, mint green pickguard, $150 off ebay . i have only been playing for about 3 and a half years but i can't see getting rid of this thing, it sounds sweet as i could want and at this point i really don't have the need (or money) for another electric. Then you'll never hear surf music again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar god lol Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 i had an old aria pro 2. it was sweet considering i knew nothing back then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red 67 Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 I have mine. Old harmony, alum pick gaurd, one pickup. It has been totally redone. I am about to strip it and redone it agian! Big Red's Ride Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lone Chicken Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 My first guitar, which I received as a Christmas gift in 1970 when I was 14, was a no-name department store mailorder electric whose very high string action pretty much kept me from getting anywhere on it, and I've not had that guitar since 1978 (don't know what became of it). My second guitar, the one that I actually learned to play on, was a Lark dreadnaught six-string acoustic, with an apparent cigarette burn on the edge of the body courtesy of the previous owner, that I bought from a small music store in Virginia Beach, VA for $95 in 1975. That guitar has gone with me pretty much everywhere with me ever since (oh, the stories that guitar would tell if it could talk! LOL) and is still with me to this day. Robert J. ("Bob") Welch III "If you were the only person who ever lived, God still would have sent Jesus His only Son to die on the cross for YOU, because that is how much HE LOVES YOU!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitar Geezer Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 [delving back into the forgotten cobwebs of memory] 1967 or 8...Tesico Del Ray and no name amp from Gibson Discount Store in Oak Cliff (suburb of Dallas).........no...dont have it....another friend (trying to learn bass) took it and chopped it up eventually) but gave me his late dad's fender single pickup guitar taht had been sittin around to make up for it. Later traded it along with an early Yamaha SG type and a Musicman 2-12 amp for a Mazda RX7 (plus some cash...of course) later realized that the "fender single picup" was an circa 1960 esquire No Comment LynnG Lynn G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro_Man Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 I've yet to buy my first electric guitar (any day now guys, any day) but i still have my first bass, bought it second hand for about £80 i still play it and it sounds damn good it needs a new pick up and scratch plate but its been seriously loved, i did my first gig with it too, oh the memories. "i must've wrote 30 songs the first weekend i met my true love ... then she died and i got stuck with this b****" - Father of the Pride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamixoye Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 I am more of a bass player. I am on my second bass (Hohner B Bass VI, got it in 2001), but I still own my first (Samick 5-string, got it in 1997). I bought my brother's Epiphone Special II in 2001, and I still own that. I believe that is the greatest reply I\'ve ever read! I\'m not even joking. -- justinruins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauldil Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 This wasn't my very first guitar (that was some really cheap unplayable no-name acoustic with the strings around an inch off the freteboard), but it was one of the very first guitars I ever owned. I got it back in 1965 from Mr. Meyer, who ran the local park district arts & crafts shop. He used to get all kinds of instruments donated from various companies and gave lessons on every instrument. If you got a perfect score on your lesson for 10 consecutive weeks, he gave you the instrument to keep. I had just started playing and I got this National Resonator student model from him and had if for years. This was the guitar I learned to play Beatles songs, "House of the rising sun", "Secret Agent Man",... just a ton of songs on. In 1977, I temporarily moved to L.A. and left it behind at my parent's house. My brother, for some unknown reason, assumed I didn't want it and gave it to his boss' son who had just started taking guitar lessons. The boss got a divorce, the guitar got sold at garage sale, and I never saw it again. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/pauldil1/Studen17.jpg Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red 67 Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 My brother, for some unknown reason, assumed I didn't want it and gave it to his boss' son who had just started taking guitar lessons. The boss got a divorce, the guitar got sold at garage sale, and I never saw it again. Did ya punch him in the nose? I wanted to punch him in the nose for ya. Big Red's Ride Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Originally posted by Big Red 67: My brother, for some unknown reason, assumed I didn't want it and gave it to his boss' son who had just started taking guitar lessons. The boss got a divorce, the guitar got sold at garage sale, and I never saw it again. Did ya punch him in the nose? I wanted to punch him in the nose for ya.LOL! You can be a funny guy Red! Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiC Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Got mine! Bently acoustic. "Treat your wife with honor, respect, and understanding as you live together so that you can pray effectively as husband and wife." 1 Peter 3:7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red 67 Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Big Red 67: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My brother, for some unknown reason, assumed I didn't want it and gave it to his boss' son who had just started taking guitar lessons. The boss got a divorce, the guitar got sold at garage sale, and I never saw it again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did ya punch him in the nose? I wanted to punch him in the nose for ya. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOL! You can be a funny guy Red! Yea, the weird part is that it comes from an effort to be my self as honestly as possible Big Red's Ride Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmo115 Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 (prepare for the broken record or should I say CD) 1978 black Gibby LP. Still have it because you people. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/cosmo115/LP.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Fuzz Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 My first guitar was a 30$ Trump acoustic... gave it away to someone and ended up being given another one just like it My first electric guitar was a 59 Les Paul Jr. my brother found for me at a flea market. Bought it for 50$ from the dad of the original owner, he even threw in a GA-5 amp. Yes, I still have it - it's the one guitar I would never get rid of. drfuzz "I'm just here to regulate the funkiness" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antimatter Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 My first guitar was a Christmas present I got from my older siblings. It was an acoustic with a forgettable brand name(see, I forgot it). It played oh so sweetly. Somewhere in High School I got in an argument with a girlfriend, and somehow kicked a hole in it. Yeah, dumbass. Well, I covered the hole with duct tape, and had a very useful Beach guitar. The beach of course being a very sandy, salty kinda place, is not kind to guitars. But this holey axe was perfect for lots of oceanfront jamming. That guitar logged many hours of summer sun from say 84 to maybe 91. A few months back, we cleaned out Dads house and my trusty beachaxe; corroded, battered and beaten, was carted away. It led a good life though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitar god lol Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 nice les paul cosmo. does she play as sweet as she looks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoes Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 It was the ever unpopular Pan Les Paul Custom as seen in this file photo from 1976. Notice the string art creation on the wall behind me. Oh boy.. the 70's were fun fun fun http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/pek63/PanLP76.jpg Although I never kept it we did cross paths a few times at the local bus terminal where I recognized my sticker job on the case a student was carrying back and forth from school. Should have kept it for all the cash it got me for a trade. I think I got $100 for it. (officially this isn't my first guitar and I'm not up to talking about what happened to that yet) ... stupid kid. I still think guitars are like shoes, but louder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel E. Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Still have my very first guitar - a '77 Harmony Stella my parents got me for Xmas back when I was 6. Never played it but I still have it - I use ot for slide now. My real FIRST guitar was my '71 Telecaster that I bought from Tom at the Halifax Folklore Center when I was 16. I still have it and it's my #1 guitar. "You never can vouch for your own consciousness." - Norman Mailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennyf Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 My first was this baby. http://dennyf.com/ebay/sz520/theugly.jpg Just the one neck pickup, and a chrome pickguard/control plate. I traded some cheezy green mic for it. This is the stick that I used for a few months after I switched over from bass. I don't remember what kind it was or what happened to it. In fairly short order, I got a (used) Aria Les Paul Custom copy that was a pretty nice guitar. Wish I still had it. I sold it to a friend, who later gave it to the singer in his band as a "bon voyage" present when the singer left his band. band link: bluepearlband.com music, lessons, gig schedules at dennyf.com STURGEON'S LAW --98% of everything is bullshit. My Unitarian Jihad Name is: The Jackhammer of Love and Mercy. Get yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moeblues04 Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 My first guitar was/is a Fresher LP copy that my parents gave me for Christmas some 20-odd years ago. It's sitting behind me as I type this. It still sounds not too bad, though the pick-ups are pretty hot and feedback like crazy. The frets are all but non-existent at this point. I've been meaning to fix it up, and if I find someplace to buy the parts for it, I think I will. I'd love to give it to one of my own kids eventually. "We're just musician's.....here to thin the thickness of your skin." - Max Webster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwestenberg Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose First guitar was and is a blonde Aria acoustic, a very nice guitar, I still use it today. My first electric was a Memphis LP copy and is long gone. Lyrics. Wasted space between solos. I can't tell you, but I can play it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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