Members gardo Posted October 4, 2019 Members Share Posted October 4, 2019 Haven’t see Heath in years. Must have been great building your own amp Especially with some help to assure success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onelife Posted October 4, 2019 Members Share Posted October 4, 2019 5 minutes ago, gardo said: Haven’t see Heath in years. Must have been great building your own amp Especially with some help to assure success It certainly was. Reading the circuit description about how the tone controls worked was what inspired me to go to electronics school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nionwa Jahi Posted October 4, 2019 Members Share Posted October 4, 2019 I was around 15 or 16. Freshman in highschool. My dad's friend's daughter had this 100 dollar Johnson Strat that she wasn't using and was giving away. I remember him telling me about it and next thing I know, it's in my room. That thing became my reason to get up because I couldn't wait to learn the next song on YouTube guitar lessons and cover the songs. Only a few years after that I started taking songwriting really serious. I'm not sure that I would be here if I never got started with that guitar. I still have it today and it definitely has a story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted October 22, 2019 Author Members Share Posted October 22, 2019 On 10/4/2019 at 4:59 PM, Nionwa Jahi said: I was around 15 or 16. Freshman in highschool. My dad's friend's daughter had this 100 dollar Johnson Strat that she wasn't using and was giving away. I remember him telling me about it and next thing I know, it's in my room. That thing became my reason to get up because I couldn't wait to learn the next song on YouTube guitar lessons and cover the songs. Only a few years after that I started taking songwriting really serious. I'm not sure that I would be here if I never got started with that guitar. I still have it today and it definitely has a story. Wow !!!! I wish that still had my first guitar .... I'm sure 99.99% of bassists and guitarists still wish they still had their first one !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nidgereedo Posted October 22, 2019 Members Share Posted October 22, 2019 Not so fancy for me...the first guitar I bought was a Yamaha FG-401 acoustic back in 1997 for a humble $299 Aussie dollars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hassalfocker Posted October 24, 2019 Members Share Posted October 24, 2019 A Drifter acoustic that my brother gave me when I was 12. He is 3 1/2 years younger than me so when our jackass step dad gave it to him two years before, he was too small to even try to play it. He never even had an interest in playing, never. It was I who wanted to learn and the jack hole never took the time to teach me. That's ok, because a couple months after my bro gave it to me my step dad started beating me for some stupid reason and something inside me snapped. I grabbed the closest thing to me I could hit him with and it was that Drifter guitar. The next thing I remember was my neighbors dad shaking me and saying, " hey Danny, it's ok he's had enough, c'mon Danny he's had enough. " My stepdad was curled up in a corner, all that was left of the guitar was the neck and the bridge still attached to the strings. I had cuts on me and he had them on him from when I swung the neck, the bridge would cut me as it flew thru the air then cut him as I pulled the neck back fo another swing. He threatened to send me to a boys home but thats when Bill Townsend the next door neighbor threatened him with bringing his three older boys over and the four of them taking turns whipping him with a belt like they'd been hearing him beat me and my little brother for the 6 we had lived there. We lived way out in the boontillies about 30 miles South of Little Rock Arkansass, in a little single wide three bedroom trailer of course they could hear him beating us. Well that was the last day he laid a finger on either one of us. A year later my mom finally left the bastard. I look back fondly on that cheap Drifter acoustic as the day I finally stood up to that Satan worshipping bastard. My second guitar was a Carlos acoustic that I continued learning to play on. I had already been playing on it lil bro gave it to me. How's that for a first guitar story?¿?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted October 24, 2019 Members Share Posted October 24, 2019 My dad is the only one in the family that doesn’t play an instrument... and he came along about the time of the “incident” when they lived in Roswell, NM... my maternal grandfather played lap steel in a party band during prohibition so it was kind of natural that my first guitar was an old harmony hawaiian lap steel... grandpa played a gibson skylark... koa wood, Flying V model... he taught me on that guitar for the first few months... I believe it was a 59... cream colored case, red velvet lined... I can still smell it... right now... anyhow, the pup from the harmony was culled and installed on an acoustic 6 string cheapo harmony that I bought when I was 10 years old... paper route money. At 13 I was making more money with my guitar than from my side hustles with the paper route, mowing lawns and selling eggs from my chickens and thus my descent into the dark abyss began... and continues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted October 26, 2019 Author Members Share Posted October 26, 2019 On 10/24/2019 at 6:00 AM, Voltan said: My dad is the only one in the family that doesn’t play an instrument... and he came along about the time of the “incident” when they lived in Roswell, NM... my maternal grandfather played lap steel in a party band during prohibition so it was kind of natural that my first guitar was an old harmony hawaiian lap steel... grandpa played a gibson skylark... koa wood, Flying V model... he taught me on that guitar for the first few months... I believe it was a 59... cream colored case, red velvet lined... I can still smell it... right now... anyhow, the pup from the harmony was culled and installed on an acoustic 6 string cheapo harmony that I bought when I was 10 years old... paper route money. At 13 I was making more money with my guitar than from my side hustles with the paper route, mowing lawns and selling eggs from my chickens and thus my descent into the dark abyss began... and continues... Roswell, N.M. I got family in Chavez County too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LowTuned99 Posted October 26, 2019 Members Share Posted October 26, 2019 My first acoustic was some no-name model that I purchased from a local music shop when I was 9 years old. This was in 1981 and it looked like it'd been there a while so I'd guess it was made in the 1970's sometime. After about a year of guitar lessons my family felt confident that I was going to stick with it so they got me an electric guitar and amp combo from the Sears catalog. Red SG copy with black pickguard, large old-school butterknife style trem on there and everything. Small three watt amp with three knobs. Kids today will never know the struggle of trying to learn Randy Rhoads riffs on a setup like that haha, but I wouldn't change a thing about it. I wish I still had pics of that old gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members arsomartinera Posted October 27, 2019 Members Share Posted October 27, 2019 I still think cutaway is a big deal even for beginners starting out guitar Me myself started out with a dreadnought and after playin sometime i do realise the need of the upper note frets tho Sometimes you just NEED those upper 15 frets Anyway good video as always marty! Dafont Showbox Adam4adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gdavew63 Posted October 28, 2019 Members Share Posted October 28, 2019 My very first guitar was a 1964 Harmony Rocket. It was cherry red with white trim, and was semi acoustic. I wish I had a picture of it. I got it in 1975, and for Christmas 1977, my dad traded it in for a 1977 Electra MPC guitar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Strum Bum Posted October 29, 2019 Members Share Posted October 29, 2019 '74 Hagstrom Swede... it chose me! I was 20, at college, broke, & living in ramshackle house at the edge of town. Dreamt of a guitar on which to practice and learn- but it wasn't happening. A farmer down the road stopped one October day with it propped in the passenger seat of his truck. "Got it for back-rent at the tenent house- goin' into town to sell unless one of you boys is interested?" $80.00 changed hands. I lived on Raman noodles for a couple months, but the beautiful Hagstrom was mine! Had no case- made the first one myself out of scrap plywood lined with carpet remnants. It remained my one & only guitar for many, many years, and is still played and loved by me to this day. Blessed to have so fine a first guitar delivered to my unworthy hands! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bart2brett Posted October 30, 2019 Members Share Posted October 30, 2019 My first guitar was an Airline (Kay) Vanguard II 1967. My dad paid $15 for it and $15 for an amp. I was able to find another one recently (great to have for nostalgic reasons) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted October 30, 2019 Members Share Posted October 30, 2019 23 minutes ago, bart2brett said: My first guitar was an Airline (Kay) Vanguard II 1967. My dad paid $15 for it and $15 for an amp. I was able to find another one recently (great to have for nostalgic reasons) How did the recent find compare to your. Memories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LoadedGoat Posted December 23, 2019 Members Share Posted December 23, 2019 A red Seville strat with hardshell case purchased from a navy exchange in 1981 when I was stationed in California for $200. Still own it..still plays..totally stock! Remember Gorilla amps..that was my 1st..now long gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted December 24, 2019 Members Share Posted December 24, 2019 Thinking about "beginners guitars" which usually wind up at Goodwill store. They should be called "enders guitars" as few things could be as off putting as those pieces of junk. Action high enough to slide a textbook under. Near impossible to tune or intonate. Sound? Is that what that is? Maybe it was Ted Nugent who suggested "practice til your fingers bleed" but that should take longer than 10 minutes, ya think? Merry New Year and Happy Christmas. Love these stories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted December 24, 2019 Members Share Posted December 24, 2019 My first electric is - still gots it more or less - an Ibanez candyish red, lame flame RG 570. Paid 500 cash for it and case in the 90s. Had too much money for my intellect. My first acoustic is a 30 dollar classical from a Chicago mail order place I can't remember the name. Had to fix the action with individual shims cut from credit cards. if I already posted this somewhere, 🖕 for noticing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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