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POS Squier acoustic with the action literally a quarter inch off the fretboard (If you've setup a guitar before, you know that is fucking high) Good thing I rented an electric, another POS Squier.. there was so much buzz I couldn't hear the notes, but at least I knew there were guitars out there that were playable! 
I got some POS, $15 Strat/Jaguar mutant copy...don't even know where it was made...for my first guitar. My parents got it for me at a garage sale when I was 15 (1978). I also got a $10, no-name, POS amplifier that was better at shocking the crap out of you than amplifying what I was playing.
My parents went this direction because they figured that me wanting to play guitar was just a passing fad and that I'd tire of it rather quickly...so they didn't want to be out a lot of money.
Well, to make a long story short...I played that POS every day for 3-5 hours for a year...my fingers bled, blistered, calloused, bled again, blistered again, calloused again...
When my 16th birthday was approaching, I asked my parents for a new guitar and amp...it didn't have to be anything spectacular, just something decent (at that stage anything would have been an improvement).
Imagine my surprise when on my 16th birthday my parents surprised me with a new, black-and-gold Gibson Les Paul Custom and a new Yamaha 30-watt amplifier. I guess in this case, persistance paid off.
27 years later, I'm still playing poorly...but I'm still playing.
My parents went this direction because they figured that me wanting to play guitar was just a passing fad and that I'd tire of it rather quickly...so they didn't want to be out a lot of money.
Well, to make a long story short...I played that POS every day for 3-5 hours for a year...my fingers bled, blistered, calloused, bled again, blistered again, calloused again...
When my 16th birthday was approaching, I asked my parents for a new guitar and amp...it didn't have to be anything spectacular, just something decent (at that stage anything would have been an improvement).
Imagine my surprise when on my 16th birthday my parents surprised me with a new, black-and-gold Gibson Les Paul Custom and a new Yamaha 30-watt amplifier. I guess in this case, persistance paid off.
27 years later, I'm still playing poorly...but I'm still playing.
Originally posted by Dean Medlock
I got some POS, $15 Strat/Jaguar mutant copy...don't even know where it was made...for my first guitar. My parents got it for me at a garage sale when I was 15 (1978). I also got a $10, no-name, POS amplifier that was better at shocking the crap out of you than amplifying what I was playing.
My parents went this direction because they figured that me wanting to play guitar was just a passing fad and that I'd tire of it rather quickly...so they didn't want to be out a lot of money.
Well, to make a long story short...I played that POS every day for 3-5 hours for a year...my fingers bled, blistered, calloused, bled again, blistered again, calloused again...
When my 16th birthday was approaching, I asked my parents for a new guitar and amp...it didn't have to be anything spectacular, just something decent (at that stage anything would have been an improvement).
Imagine my surprise when on my 16th birthday my parents surprised me with a new, black-and-gold Gibson Les Paul Custom and a new Yamaha 30-watt amplifier. I guess in this case, persistance paid off.
27 years later, I'm still playing poorly...but I'm still playing.
LP Custom eh?
I think I speak for all of us when i say "FUCK YOU"!
Bastard!
Originally posted by batotman
LP Custom eh?
I think I speak for all of us when i say "FUCK YOU"!
Bastard!
Want to hear something funny? Well, you're going to anyways.
When I first got it, I was initially disappointed because it wasn't Cherry Sunburst like Ace Frehley's.
Seven months later, I went to see KISS in concert and Ace was playing a black LP Custom.
Believe it or not, my parents paid $900 for that guitar brand new...still wish I had it...I got tired of it getting stolen, so I eventually sold it for an amount of money I'm too embarrased to admit here.
On another negative note...that LP must have weighed 12+ pounds.
Originally posted by Dean Medlock
Want to hear something funny? Well, you're going to anyways.
When I first got it, I was initially disappointed because it wasn't Cherry Sunburst like Ace Frehley's.
Seven months later, I went to see KISS in concert and Ace was playing a black LP Custom.
Believe it or not, my parents paid $900 for that guitar brand new...still wish I had it...I got tired of it getting stolen, so I eventually sold it for an amount of money I'm too embarrased to admit here.
On another negative note...that LP must have weighed 12+ pounds.
How depressing! I would never pay the money they go for today but still wouldn't mind owning one!
Originally posted by jmartin
My first guitar was a Yamaha FG-seires acoutsic,my first electric was a Harmony strat copy-which I eventually modified the heck out of-with Bill Lawrence h.b. in the bridge,a Floyd (1st kid in my town with one, since they'd just come out!).A real hatchet-job. But one which I am planning to re-store soon,with new pups, locking tuners on a new neck and and re-finish in Deep Purple. Get this -the body is plywood lmao.
I've got a late 70's Harmony Strat copy. I refin'd it, reshaped the headstock to make it look more "stratish", put in new electronics, and put on a custom logo. When I stripped it down, I expected plywood too. But it is actually solid. Here's a pic.
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