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Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 76 Location: Cleveland, OHio USA

What was your very first electric guitar? Do you remember what kind, what it looked like? What you got with it? etc.

Mine was a cheap-a$$ no-name korean model. double cutaway, strat shape, red body and neck. It had one bridge postion open coil humbucker, tone knob, vol knob, and straight-pull bridge.
Kinda smallish body. My dad got it for me Di Fiorie's on Loraine Ave.

It came with some cheap, low wattage PA style amp unit. I think it had reverb. The guy threw in an orange DOD volume pedal.
(what the HE11 does a 10 year old need a volume pedal for playing in his room?!) My dad took the pedal back, and got me a ProCo Rat.

Ten years later, I still have the guitar. It's now stripped bare. (a custom paint project I never finished) I just keep the junky thing around for sappy sentimental reasons. The pickup is probably the best part on it.

I wired The PA amp thingy's speaker cab into a sort of practice amp, still got it. It sucks, but still got it.

In high school, I still had the Rat Pedal, but it was broken, so I gave it to my classmate Kevin. He fixed it the next day. Dammit. I should have kept that thing.

...let me go get a tissue..*sob*

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 1088 Location: Espoo, Finland

My first guitar was a Hondo Strat-copy. The neck was like a 2*4 piece of wood. Don't have it anymore, traded it in for a Hamer USA Steve Stevens II model. I don't remember how much I got from it. Prolly nothing Very Happy

I got my first amp the same day, Novanex SS 10w very small combo. That one I still have.

Mikko

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 4797 Location: BEERMUDA

Here's some really old school spacebeer $hit....Photos from back in 1996....my first guitar is teh "challenge" LP copy...I haven't got it anymore but my best friend has I see it regularly...

THe first amp I got was a Yamaha 15watt practise combo...I still have that one.

The Marshall V100 halfstack is sold but it was my second ever amp, as are teh GIBSONS you see also very early guitars of mine!

Here's me with some childhood friends of which I still see one..

Here's me with my first band practising on someones room, wow we gotta lotta trouble about that!

Here's me posing with my Gear back in 96, I was very proud of it!

My second band has to be in 97...PAVEWAY we actually made it to gigging a few times! LOTTA FUN

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:55 am

Here you go Dean Heads--- Way back when in 1982, My buddy who was/is a kick a$$ guitar player bought a brand new Les Paul Black beauty- "Studio" I think? I always played "Harp" in our keg bands and thought I should take up guitar as a second instument. A store in Seattle- "Mick's Vintage Guitar's" was having a sale- " Any Guitar For $300 or less!" Dave and I went down there-NO NOT YOU PRES.!!! I had the full intentions of buying a Les Paul or Strat! We wandered thru the store and towards the back was a White Dean V w/broken strings/Dot inlays and a White Dean Z w/block inlays in perfect condition! My buddy played it for a bit and said "Buy IT Now" I'll give you the $ for it as soon as I can! Of course he never come up with the $ so I have owned my "80 Custom" ever since!!! I still own this guitar and have taken immaculate care of it over all these years!!!

F.G.

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 5:16 am

Cool!!! that is a "Handball Goal" in the last pic!!! We don't play that game over here, but it is a fun game!!!

F.G. Smile

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 5324

hehe.. it was in March of 1977, i was 9 years old at the time.. my next door neighbour had a black Carvin LP copy (the one that had the Gibby HS), well he tried to teach me to play it a couple of times.. and i was hooked.. so he sold me a Univox ES-335 copy.. it was black and had a trapese tailpiece.. it was a bolt-on.. hahaha.. for the grand sum of $10.00..

i tried to learn.. i was hooked on Kiss, so the first song i learned was "God of Thunder"..

i had the guitar until 1982.. i refinished it in a "Rick Nielsen" checkerboard.. it actually was done really well (i had help, alot of help!!) then i sold it off..

shoulda kept it.. what a SKA-box that would be now..

Joined: 06 Dec 2003 Posts: 994 Location: The Office

My first was an Electra. It was a strat copy in red with a white pick guard. Couple that with my little Venom 10 watt amp and I was a rock 'n roll god. Then I picked up an Aria Pro II - another strat copy with a licensed Floyd. Next up was a Gibson Explorer in purple burst. Next came my '80 Dean V, which I still own.

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My first one I still have I got it on April 25,1962 for my birthday.

The finish is still in good shape some checking , but just adds to the vibe.
Bill

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 403 Location: Cincinnati, OH

My first guitar was somwethign called a "blade II", a red strat knock off, played through a Peavey Rage amplifier. I sold them later to get a bigger amp, as I already had moved on to a better guitar.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2742 Location: Denver

First guitar was a Gibson Victory MVX...pretty awesome first guitar. Had a Thunderbird stock on a strat-y body with H/S/H pickup config. The thing weighed more than any Les Paul I've played since...it was a freaking coffee table. Companion amp was a Marshall Lead 12 combo that I still have. A collector in Las Vegas bought the guitar as I had it on sale on consignment. Trying to find that dude so I can attempt to buy it back. Hindsight showed me that a lazy ass ex-wife is no reason to sell a guitar when you have less than no dough...just dump the dead weight in heels.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 4381 Location: Vaasa, Finland

A black strat copy...

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 5799

My first (only 2 years ago) was a Squier double fat strat in dark metallic purple. They couldn't move the purple ones sop I got it on sale. It was actually my favorite color so I was happy. It ended up being traded to GC for something or other. Wish I still had it, it was one of those cheper guitars that was "just right". Bill, you got that LP a couple of months before I was even born, and I'm OLD. Cool

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 1088 Location: Espoo, Finland

Justnoldbluzman wrote:

My first one I still have I got it on April 25,1962 for my birthday.

The finish is still in good shape some checking , but just adds to the vibe.
Bill

Bill,

That '58 Custom is very very nice! And the value should be quite good also. My undestanding is that there aren't too many '57-'61 Custom's with 2 pups?

Can you send me bigger resolution pics of her? mikko.aittola@saunalahti.fi

Mikko

EDIT: Looking at the picture it seems to be the black pickup version from '54-'57?

Joined: 17 Dec 2003 Posts: 67 Location: Jersey

My first guitar was back in 1978. It was a used 1975 Gibson SG. My younger brother who took up the guitar, still has it. My amp was a cheap solid state Kustom amp and I had a "Little Muff" as a distortion pedal. (it wasn't really a pedal, you plugged the Little Muff straight into the amp.) Does anybody remember those?

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 7639 Location: Florida

my first guitar was some piece of junk $25 thing. I have no idea what kind it was, and was a wacky shape. The neck and joint were horrible, I remember sawing off the last 2 frets of the neck and reattaching the neck back to the body - the original screw holes weren't holding the neck straight. I smashed the thing as soon as my next guitar was purchased. I then got some Peavy strat copy, then a Fender strat, then this Kramer Focus 2000 - had a floyd and took an amazing beating (still have it, now a parts guitar - has a nice row of indents on the body where the trem bar was smashed into it repeatedly.)

pretty old picture

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 1088 Location: Espoo, Finland

transblueZ wrote:

my first guitar was some piece of junk $25 thing. I have no idea what kind it was, and was a wacky shape. The neck and joint were horrible, I remember sawing off the last 2 frets of the neck and reattaching the neck back to the body - the original screw holes weren't holding the neck straight. I smashed the thing as soon as my next guitar was purchased. I then got some Peavy strat copy, then a Fender strat, then this Kramer Focus 2000 - had a floyd and took an amazing beating (still have it, now a parts guitar - has a nice row of indents on the body where the trem bar was smashed into it repeatedly.)

pretty old picture

Nice red 800 you got there! Still have it?

Mikko

Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 2705 Location: Dallas, TX

Well technically, I was a bass player first. I started on string bass in 3rd grade, and I don't even remember what the first one was as it was a school loaner.

My first "electric" was a Hofner Beatle bass.

I shortly thereafter moved over to guitar, and my first acoustic was a Alvarez Yairi, which I still have.

My first electric was an Electra MPC X310 LP knock off, which is still being played these days by our own Steph none the less. My 2nd electric was an 80 ML which I bought new, and still have today.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 61

My first was a Sovereign Junior Guitar(the strings were about 2 inches away from the fretboard, which really sucked) still got it

Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 130 Location: Overbrook, KS

wow that's going aways back.. cool to see a young spacebeer too.. lol

i bought my first acoustic from a friend at college.. it was a yamaha something crap.. the action was awful.. the sound even worse.. but i learned my first chords and my first praise songs on that baby. led a lot of singing times with children at church with it...

traded it in for a souped up fender acoustic.. i really didn't know anything about guitars except that i've heard of the fender name.. didn't even do any shopping.. i was just naive and stupid. spend like 450 dollars on that piece of junk... it was hard to play and still didn't sound very good..

needed the money really bad so i sold my fender in a consinment shop.. almost got half of what i paid for it back.. and used my wife's old fender acoustic she got for her birthday when she was 17..

and then the big trade.. i actually did my homework.. played about 50 different acoustics.. including taylor, alvarez, ibanez, fender, squire, gibson, epiphone, breadlove... you name it i played it.. in stores and pawn shops... then i found her... my gorgeous Dean Exotica RSE... I've been in love ever since.. she's as smooth as butter on a bald monkey.. and her sound.. oh it makes me swoon...

-mb

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 162 Location: Northwest Missouri

The year was 1978. My first guitar was an early 70's three color sunburst, Fender Mustang.

Sprinter

Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 76 Location: Cleveland, OHio USA

Awesome.

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 4406 Location: Hostile Territory

I traded some computer stuff for a red DeArmond LesPaul two years ago - it was a good guitar. My folks wouldn't let me buy an electric guitar when I was young - too noisy they said. Evil or Very Mad

I'm making up for it now though - Bwahahahahaha Twisted Evil

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 12:39 pm

i black yamaha eg-112 fat strat copy.... i still have it and i love it.... its my 2nd fav. guitar in fact! and it sounds awesome thru the hum

Joined: 14 Dec 2003 Posts: 127

'78 Memphis Les Paul copy tobacco sunburst & some unknown brand 15 watt amp (w/ cheesy tremolo effect!!!). I wish I had pictures and sometimes I wish I still had the guitar. It survived many garage bands.

Jack

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2036 Location: VALHALL

hmm... my first guitar an Ibanez strat copy of some sort .... 70's I believe !

my first bass .... Aria Pro II and a cheap pink Yamaha shortScale !

in 86 I bought a Hohner/steinberger "The Jack" and a Gallien Krueger 200RCB amp which is still with me !! Very Happy

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 14458

First acoustic - 2000 Taylor 310K
First electric - 1996 USA Dean Caddy Coupe

Similar to Mike, I'm making up for lost time.

Jim

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 111 Location: Texas Gulf Coast

My first electric guitar was a 50's vintage Kay short scale Bass. I still have it. I played it through a Sears Silvertone Tube Bass Amp. That was in 1962. My first 6 string electric was also bought in 1963. It was a 1957 (beat to hell) Fender Strat. Sure wish I had it now. I played it through the Sears Bass amp for a couple of years then got a Fender Super Reverb Amp. It was the early black face non master volume model. Before all of that, I had a Gibson LGO acoustic with a De Armond pickup playing through a home made amp.

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:48 pm

My first axe was a Magnum Superstrat copy. Metal red with a black pickguard. I have no recollection of 'why' or 'how' I came to aquire it as I'm not much of a SuperStrat man (at all for that matter), but our vice principal in high school was a bit of a hippie and he owned a 'blackie' Fender strat that he used to loan me at lunch times so I could jam with other guys. Still to this day the only Strat I enjoyed playing. It was wicked.

First amp? No idea. Can't remember for the life of me. Can't even remember what happened to it. Perhaps I should have taken piccies like Hans (wicked shot of you with da Gibsons dude LOL) Laughing

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 697 Location: Colorado

Here it is. {though a different color}
Mine was silver with a black pickguard. {looked way better}

Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 101 Location: Jax,FL

First 1 was a POS short-scale(very) acoustic.Mile High action,the whole shebang.Yes,I actually learned something on it(chords),but I wanted an electric.Got it for Christmas.
First electric was a bolt-on SG copy,with slider switches for the p/ups.Came with a homemade(also POS) amp.Got it for my b/day,April of the next year.
I was 14.