your first guitar
Jip.. still have her.. made some progress to get her fixed.. but I've got studio GAS, so I'm on the prowl for a Focusrite Liquid Channel plus a nice Ribbon mic..Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Still got the Gibbo? Still needing a fix (neck or headstock broken?)?
Headstock is stuffed.. but it can wait.. Ive got me modded Squier and the Strat is on the mend.
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I finally found a pic of the first electric guitar I owned, no name Japanese fender lookalike
Here I am at age 14, 1976, on the left. The shadows were the flavour of the day at that time
Man I love this thread
I have my 1st, 2nd and 3rd guitars. I actually have just about never gotten rid of a guitar since I sold my 4th (Ibanez RG470) and regretted it!
I'll get some pics on the weekend and post 'em!
Wish I still had this one, actually belonged to my older brother and it has disappeared over the eons
My first guitar I sold in hard times Washburn T14 Bass.. and my second..Ibanez Gio Cheery red
but the funny thing is the first guitar i actually strummed. ( about the only thing I ever did with it) I now own.. an old Encore Classical
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First guitar is a St John Classical Guitar (think just some random shitty brand from the 80s?)
First Electric is my Squier Affinity Strat - replaced pick guard and added Seymour Duncans (she's a beast now)
Still have both and use the Squier Regularly. Squier used here and the nylon string is partially visible on the wall behind me:
The Squier plays so well - neck is top notch quality, fretwork is great and the action is unrealistically low with no fret buzz (only downside is that with the action so low, I struggle to play it when I forget to cut my fingernails haha)
Wow.. my first guitar was a pawn shop buy classical guitar with no name. The neck was damaged at the heal so the action was 1cm high or something.. i played that heap for 2yrs. 13 to 15yrs. My dad finally saw that it wasnt a fad and bought me an electric. I wanted a hohner strat copy at 1200 but he wasnt happy to shell out that dosh. I saw him half way and got an electric that was 3 digits. It had 2 single coils and a small body. Named ZZTop oddly. No idea where it was made. The body is long gone. The neck i still have. It has some 10yrs of honest wear.. my dad built my amp. He was great at electrical stuff. I still have that amp. I cannot bring myself to part with it.
My 1st grown up guitar i bought at a cashconverters after i moved to the big city. Twas 800ronts. I almost never bought it because it was literally that guitar.. or petrol/ food money. I figured.. to hell with it.. i can do bread for 3 weeks. It was an Ibanez Luke from 84. I didnt even know what it was until a few years after . That was 17yrs ago.
guidothepimmp i played that heap for 2yrs. 13 to 15yrs. My dad finally saw that it wasnt a fad and bought me an electric.
Bwahaha, I've exactly the same story! Including the dad built amp
My first was a Yamaha nylon slinger my dad bought me, probably when I turned 10 or so. Went for group lessons - them was a thang back then back in the early 80s.
About a year or so later, we bought a Yammie 12 string that was about 10 times too big for me, but I bit the bullet and learned to deal with it. Had such a great sound. Played those two to death.
My first electric was a Washburn N2 from the late 90s. I bought it and a Peavey amp (canโt remember the model, but it was solid state), formed a little two-man band, put together a five-track EP wherein I wrote the music and my mate wrote the lyrics, oddly, and we went nowhere.
But that guitar was the biz...