Members joecool1963 Posted February 22, 2014 Members Share Posted February 22, 2014 I think at one point or another, we had some life changing gift given to us by someone in our lives. In the summer of 1979, my grandmother purchased this guitar, a 2 watt amp, a strap, and some other supplies. At the time, my arm was in a sling. I was bored out of my mind with a broken wrist. I used the guitar some but didnt gain traction at the time. My sister, also used the guitar until she was given a Fender Strat by my father. I got the guitar back, along with the amp. Both still work. So, this is a thank you to my grandfather and grandmother for taking flack and purchasing this for me. It is indeed one of the possessions that I have that are, in my value book, priceless. Music is a hobby that is close to my soul. It has helped keep me sane, and has given me great joy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members isitnormal? Posted February 22, 2014 Members Share Posted February 22, 2014 This is my first electric guitar. I was given a couple of crap acoustics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chordite Posted February 22, 2014 Members Share Posted February 22, 2014 Nope It went to someone 30 years back along with the mutual consumption of a bottle of southern Comfort to cement a "male bonding" thing on a real estate deal. (Fact, as they say, is stranger than fiction ) Ps. Joecool, looks like your pickups found the Southern Comfort too I still have my first "strat" though, a series one Peavey falcon. Pic when i get the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joecool1963 Posted February 22, 2014 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2014 YEah, they blew out a flip-flop...stepped on a pop top... LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kayd_mon Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 Yes, I still have my first guitar - an Aria Pro II Fullerton. No pics from mobile! I don't play it anymore, because it needs too much work. The frets are done on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 77BlazerK5 Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 yeah,'81 or so Skylark ,Bday gift from mom,learned all my punk and metal songs on it, sold it to a friend in the mid 90's and a couple of years ago happen to see it in his house and i knew he doesnt play guitar so asked him if he'd sell it back to me , he said give him the $50 he paid me for it and deal, back into daddy's hands where it belongs.LOL. it plays great better than i remember!! maybe thats because i got a better amp now than i had?LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 77BlazerK5 Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 joecool1963 wrote: I think at one point or another, we had some life changing gift given to us by someone in our lives. In the summer of 1979, my grandmother purchased this guitar, a 2 watt amp, a strap, and some other supplies. At the time, my arm was in a sling. I was bored out of my mind with a broken wrist. I used the guitar some but didnt gain traction at the time. My sister, also used the guitar until she was given a Fender Strat by my father. I got the guitar back, along with the amp. Both still work. So, this is a thank you to my grandfather and grandmother for taking flack and purchasing this for me. It is indeed one of the possessions that I have that are, in my value book, priceless. Music is a hobby that is close to my soul. It has helped keep me sane, and has given me great joy. dude i have that amp here with me? what kind of amp is it? there's no name anywhere on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Skyforger Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 Yep, still got my first. It's a 1990 MIK Squier Bullet 1. My dad gave it to me seventeen years ago, and since then it's had a few minor upgrades (Wilkinson pups, new electronics etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tupelo Son Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 This one isn't mine but it's pretty much exactly like my first. 70's el Degas LP Goldtop w/Dimarzio SD's. I wanted to be Ace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joecool1963 Posted February 23, 2014 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 77BlazerK5 wrote: joecool1963 wrote: I think at one point or another, we had some life changing gift given to us by someone in our lives. In the summer of 1979, my grandmother purchased this guitar, a 2 watt amp, a strap, and some other supplies. At the time, my arm was in a sling. I was bored out of my mind with a broken wrist. I used the guitar some but didnt gain traction at the time. My sister, also used the guitar until she was given a Fender Strat by my father. I got the guitar back, along with the amp. Both still work. So, this is a thank you to my grandfather and grandmother for taking flack and purchasing this for me. It is indeed one of the possessions that I have that are, in my value book, priceless. Music is a hobby that is close to my soul. It has helped keep me sane, and has given me great joy. dude i have that amp here with me? what kind of amp is it? there's no name anywhere on it? The amp was manufactured for Sears. No telling who manufactured them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jpnyc Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 My dad bough my first guitar from my cousin. It was a black MIK Epiphone strat copy from the early 90s. An Epi copy of a Fender guitar that had “Gibson” on the truss cover . It was terrible. The saddles were made of some awful potmetal that woudn’t stay smooth, so I went through a high E string at least once a week, no matter how many time I filed that saddle. The tuners were garbage and I couldn’t play for ten minutes without tuning. I could never get it to intonate properly. The pickups were abominable and when I had a friend replace the, he told me that the factory hadn’t even installed a ground. I eventually dumped it at a Goodwill store. Looking back I should have just thrown it away, because some poor kid probably got that POS guitar and hated it as much as I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thatsbunk Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 a lot of guitars have come & gone but still have my 1st acoustic (1974 Yamaha FG110) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Karma1 Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 I still have my first guitar - an old Harmony nylon string acoustic. I took lessons on it when I was around 12 years old back in the early 60's. Played for a couple years, but didn't like to practice so gave up. But when I started hearing Hendrix, Santana, Clapton, etc. in the late 60's, I got interested again. That guitar now hangs on my wall.I sure wish I had my first electric, though. It was well-worn 60's Jaguar that I bought used in a little hole in the wall shop on 48th St in NYC for $115! It would probably be worth thousands today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 My first guitar by sheer luck of the draw is an original 1963 Gibson Firebird VII. One of 151 ever made, I've found out. I played piano since I was 6 and really wanted a guitar. I ended up trading a Technics keyboard to an old guy in a band for the guitar in 1983. The keyboards had a patch that sounded like the organ on Dire Straits Walk of Life, so we made the deal and the rest is history. Always loved the guitar, always hung onto it. I hear it's worth a few bucks now. http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z398/robare99/4EE264B4-0090-4681-8DF3-8CB4C1DC69BD-35530-00001EA3F583F24C.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Freeman Keller Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 Yamaha FG-150 circa 1969 45 years later - not much has changed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted February 23, 2014 Members Share Posted February 23, 2014 Wish I did...It was a Shinko bought at T G & Y I think for $49. I switched over to a Sears bass about a year later. At a private party our band played I played rhytym guitar on it for a cover of Hendrix's "Hey Joe", then set it on fire and smashed it to pieces. The parents of the girl who was having the party freaked out, convinced I was a drug depraved lunatic, but I wasn't, I was just into hendrix and the Who.The crowd, all teenagers like myself and the band loved it. The guitar always sucked though, but I wish I still had the pieces. It would make an interesting wallhanging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Radar-Love Posted February 24, 2014 Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Not actually my *first* guitar -- that was a horrible Italian made Jazzmaster clone that decayed into a heap of rust and wood particles. Instead, this is my first "real" guitar, a Gibson ES-335TD-12, which I bought new for $389 in January of 1973. Years later, I discovered it was actually manufactured in 1968. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PorscheDad Posted February 24, 2014 Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 I still have my first electric guitar...and my first amp! Happy to report they both remain in prestine condition for being over 30 years old. The high res picture does it justice. 1983 Ibanez RS1000 Peavey Special Solo Series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlamoJoe Posted February 24, 2014 Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 The Roadstar....I envy..The amp not so much....But I a;ways liked those Roadstars...Kudos for keeping her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted February 24, 2014 Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Of course, I do! Here's my Yamaha Sa2200 when I was seven: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members eeddings Posted February 24, 2014 Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Here's my first, and I still have it. A Hondo Revival Explorer (middle). It was MIJ and it still playes very nicely. I bust it out all the time! I put the EMGs in it back in the 90's. The one far right is my second guitar, a Kensington double cut which one of my uncles gave me. It went to Vietnam with him but when he lost a finger he couldn't play it any longer so he gave it to me. The Dean I bought for my kid but she never plays it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members liko Posted February 28, 2014 Members Share Posted February 28, 2014 Only my first acoustic 6-string. Little Jasmine dread, still in a gig bag in my man cave. Doesn't see much play time and needs some work gluing the bridge back down.My first bass guitar, a Yammie RBX-160, got stolen in a break-in while I was at college, along with my first bass amp and my first Fender, a MIM Jazz. Probably being played by some Tejano band south of the border by now.My first electric was an Ibanez GAX-70, which neck-dove so horribly I honestly couldn't play it. I traded it for my first real guitar OD pedal, a Hardwire CM-2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shammond Posted March 1, 2014 Members Share Posted March 1, 2014 Still got mine. A 1970 Harmony Sovereign black acoutic. All hardwood. I think they were sold by Montgomery Wards or Sears. My parents got it for me. I learned how to play on it and played it for many years before it ended up in the attic. I took it out about 2 years ago, spent about 150 bucks getting the neck reset and the frets dressed and now it plays like it did when I first got it. I will never get rid of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted March 1, 2014 Members Share Posted March 1, 2014 I do. My dad bought it new in 1946 and taught me to play on it. Unfortunately, the $hit for brains morons who run this site make my pics look like this... " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://s1185.photobucket.com/user/ElijahGardener/media/26B21354-D768-487C-B5BC-C5C442DBCAF7-351-00000067C7F73099_zpsa26ec8cb.jpg.html][/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Malcolm Ramone Posted March 2, 2014 Members Share Posted March 2, 2014 Nope. Mine was a Peavey T-30, black on black, with a couple changed pups, some VH-esque white stripes, and a gumby sticker! I stripped it, painted it red, and had a single HB pickguard made at the local music store. Put a SD super distortion in there. Traded it in on a 61-ish Guild T100. -Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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