What is the first guitar you ever owned?

motowncoop

The first guitar I ever had was an old Strat that my dad used to play with. He gave it to me when I was 14. Man, I can still remember how sore my fingers were from the hours and hours of learning and practicing.

My dad has been gone for nearly 10 years now, but this guitar still remains one of my favorites. It feels comfortable to play, and it brings back so many great memories. I will never part with it, unless my son decides he wants to play too. Then it will be passed down to him as it was passed down to me.

So, I'm interested to hear about other's first guitars.


Paul

partch

Back in middle School days I had a Kramer Strat Style guitar good enough deffinetly to get started in guitar. well needless to say I went no were with it ended up selling it & giving up on playing till about 4 years ago Got a cheap Washburn Acoustic played for about a month was a bout ready to give up again & then I got an Ibanez RG470DX of Ebay a great deal new with 1 small paint chip on back. This guitar was a Joy to learn on I've since sold the guitar to another guy who is just getting started.

shredd

My \"first\" was a Les Paul copy; used, it cost about as much as a 2nd-tier p'up does now. :shock: Once I decided I liked playing and decided to put some bux into it, I owned some really tasty rigs that I'm mortally ashamed I didn't keep... :oops:

ednrg

My first was a Yamaha acoustic that I still have to this day. I have not heard any other guitar that matches its tone at any price.

rawfish

my sigma dreadnought. Bought in '82 as a factory second (finish flaw) for less than $200. Added a transducer under the bridge in '88. Still love it.


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cfsguitar

Wow you guys all had cool first guitars mine was a piece of junk first act guitar, definetly a HORRIBLE guitar but I did learn how to play guitar on it and eventually moved on to better guitars.

shredd

You guys drive me nuts..you got these tasty axes for your first rig and still have them. My first ax was a better paperweight than git'r! What I WISH I still had was some of the axes I've had SINCE...

iliace

I had a nylon-string acoustic.

Terranaut

A red Kent electric that looked vaguely like a Mustang, and a Univox amp with one 12\". 2 years later, I got a 65 Strat and a Kustom 200 with the blue sparkle plush, that I played for almost 8 years. I killed the Strat over time and traded it for a Gibson Marauder, which I still have and use for heavy slide work.

Tal Rules

1st axe was a P.O.S. Kay acoustic. Plywood construction..
I was 8. My parents said if I showed interest they'd get me something better..
I played it for everday for 4 years, Until I got my neato OAHU fiberglass body electric..

The Kay was very similar to this P.O.S.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Kay-Acoustic-Guitar_W0QQitemZ270146552625QQihZ017QQcategoryZ2385QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

haffner.michael

I got a black Charvette back in 1990 when I started. Retired it in 1994 when I got a PRS Custom 24. I loaned it to my nephew and got it back with a cracked neck - not fixable. now it sits in a corner. Someday I hope to fix it, but it is hard to find just a neck for one of those.

GNX Jammer

In '75 I started playing a friends Hondo LP copy. He let me jam on his guitars until '78 when I got a job (wasn't supposed to be working at the age of 13, but I wanted my own guitar dangit! shoveling horse poop for $1.50/hr or something ridiculous.

Worked all summer and saved up enough to buy myself a Regal 8 watt amp and a Key LP copy (Cherry Sunburst, just like Ace Frehley's!), and played that thing till the frets fell off, literally.

I've had so many guitars since then that I can't even remember, but I'll never ever forget that one.

thehootman

A beat up nylon string classical.

Manitou

I was 13, the year was '65, and my first guitar was an older than me Harmony acoustic. It was in rough shape, but I refinished it, and lowered the action, and it sounded thick and rich. The body was all mahogany. My guitar hero was Chet Atkins, and my favorite band was The Rolling Stones. 8)

insideout

My first guitar was a Honer Les Paul copy. It sure looked purdy, but that was were the quality ended. My brother gave it to me when he bought his first Strat. Like it's been said already though, it got me started, and I learned how to do flying splits off my bed with it :shock:

dean

A japanese acoustic...Kasuga brand. I brought it cause it looked great...It has paua inlay (abolone)..I killed my hands trying to play F and barre chords...Sold it to buy a strat copy...never seen one since..

P.G.Shadow

\thehootman\ wrote:

A beat up nylon string classical.

Me and thehootman where in the same boat,expect mine you could limbo under the strings....true story

Metal Rulz

My first guitar was a white Profile Electric back in 83. My amp was an old 8 track ( remember those guys?) stereo receiver. My dad rigged up a guitar cable so it would plug in through the tuners Aux. I ran that through an old piece of junk Profile Distortion pedal. God I can still hear that tone

T L F

My first guitar was a black Kent whcih was a mid 70's SG copy with PAF's and a 3 ply black pickguard, etc. I took the label off the neck and it had originally been made by Arirang\" (Japanese copy) and been re-branded Kent. I was really into AC/DC and it was an exact copy of a pic I had of Angus Young from Circus magazine...

Cobaltblooz

A $25 no name acoustic in 1978, we figured out by accident you could shove the square condeser mic from my little Panasonic cassete deck in the sound hole & get distortion, a couple months later I got a \"Global\"elec out of a catalogue for $40...a few months later after gettin a nice Les Paul, I smashed the Global on stage at my 1st gig \"Who\" style

agelessrocker

A no name SG Copy made in japan purchased from Sears Catalog, yes I'm that old.

Mike B

My parents bought me a very inexpensive guitar when I was fourteen to see if I would learn. By the time I could make C-F-G chord changes and the play the C scale, the neck bowed and seperated from the body.

Later I played on my uncle's J-45 and then my parents got me a Silvertone model from sears.

My first really nice electric was a Aria Les Paul style with a split diamond on the head, and a bolt on neck, I bought it in 1977 for $170.00 (US). I really liked this guitar. I learned how to adjust the neck, set intonation and generally what made an electric guitar work with this guitar. By 1997 I still owned and played the guitar regularly. I had got a hold of a set machine heads from a Les Paul and installed those and a new top nut, and adjustomatic bridge.

Came home from work one day in 1997 and found the house had been burglarized and the guitar was gone. That really hurt.

nicewrk

Wow,
You guys musta bee dah \"rich folk\" All those fancy guitars. I made me fingers bleed on a zim=gar acoustic my bro gave me for chrstmas. Made me give up for a year.

My fingers still hurt from that Guitar. Probably worth a million
at a guitar show now.

I Can stil remember the ZIMGAR ads

\"NO One IN THEIR RIMINDS PLAYS ONE OF THESE\"

ednrg

Actually, I didn't come from a \"well off\" family at all. My father busted his butt doing construction to make ends meet. He took a second job (driving a cab/home improvement) to get money for Christmas. I got my guitar on Christmas, and it always reminds me of the lengths my father went through to get it.

Thanks Dad!!!

philflood

I don't even remember the name of my first guitar. I had no way to learn to play it. It was whatever you were able to get by redeeming S&H Green Stamps. After that, when I was about 12 and started taking lessons, my folks were sold a Galanti, after having been told the Green Stamps guitar was no good. The Galanti was actuallly a very nice guitar looking back on it. But, one day durng a show, the pickguard shattered when I accidentally stepped on the cable. It was never the same after that. As I became serious about music, my folks got me the last guitar they ever bought for me, a Gibson ES-175D. It was my main axe for about 15 years. I had it until I fell on hard times while living in Las Vegas.

dmusicfan

1st my Uncle \"gave\" me a \"broken\" steel string. I did not know a thing about music. Then my first \"serious\" was some store brand Classical guitar. Then, my Black/White Epiphone- Looks like a Strat, now, my Gibson SG Special Faded