What was your first good electric Guitar? - Page 3

andyman95023 · 10-20-2009, 08:36 AM

My first REAL guitar is a 77 hardtail strat I traded for a motorcycle. I still have it complete with 3 bolt neck and 5 way switch.

Andyman95023

AngryDeli · 10-20-2009, 08:47 AM

My first electric guitar was a real piece o' crap J.B. Player with shitty pickups, warped neck and even worse Floyd Rose-copy whammy bar. That's what I got for letting my parents surprise me. About 3 days later, I took that POS guitar and traded it for a Fender Stratocaster (Korean model).

My first REAL guitar was my Les Paul Studio Baritone, which I still use to this day.

wkcchampion · 10-20-2009, 09:13 AM

my 08 Parker Fly Mojo. I still have it.

Also worth considering a Gibson SG with Bigsby tremolo I had years ago but... umpf no match to the Fly at all, period.

thrawn86 · 10-20-2009, 12:05 PM

I had a black Epiphone LP that was really nice. This was after a lousy Squire......

Ugh....sickening to think about that thing. My Gibson LP is the best yet.

Fcal124 · 10-20-2009, 09:42 PM

1970 Cherry Gibson SG with Maestro Trem about $450-500 new. Man I wish I hadn't sold that guitar.

RobS · 10-21-2009, 06:28 AM

My first guitar was a Yamaha RGX312 which I still have, only because all original members of KISS signed it. Then I was lucky enough to buy one of Paul Stanleys PS10CL's and I see that as the 1st real guitar I got. I have also an Epiphone LP Custom which is a great guitar as well and used to have a Gibson LP Custom which I recently sold and now also have a 08 Gibson LP traditional which I put on par with the Ibanez. The Ibanez feels very much like a Gibson Explorer to play and the Traditional is like a tank and really sounds great on both clean and dirty channels.

Rob

Gtrman58 · 10-21-2009, 06:50 AM

It was 1971-72. I had been playing for about 6 years. I started out with a Norma and stumbled upon a mint condition 1951 telecaster with mint case and a 51 fender deluxe amp. ALL FOR 50.00 DOLLARS!

I still have the amp.....and dreams about the guitar!

I have photos of many of my past babies and I am still trying to figure out how to get them on the forum.

StootMonster · 10-21-2009, 04:03 PM

My first electric was some pawnshop special called a Checkmate. Then I "upgraded" to a much better sounding guitar. It was a japanese import Les Paul copy called a Lotus. I played that one for quite a while until I got an Epiphone Les Paul. So somewhere in there was my first REAL electric.

custom53 · 10-22-2009, 01:46 PM

My first guitar was a "no Name" with switches and knobs, 4 pick-ups, weighed about 40 lbs...! Had a couple more cheapos than I got a Hofner 6-string around 1973. Sold that for $75.00 (with case....!) Then I got got a mid 60s Strat around 1974. After that it was a blur....

zslane · 10-24-2009, 11:20 AM

1996 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, pictured below. Purchased new from Guitar Center thirteen years ago. Clearly, my LP collection has grown since then...

HOT TUBES 70 · 10-24-2009, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zslane

1996 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, pictured below. Purchased new from Guitar Center thirteen years ago. Clearly, my LP collection has grown since then...

sweet set up ZSLANE !!

where's the 6100 ??

MacMan · 10-24-2009, 05:42 PM

The first great guitar I ever bought was my black Peavey Wolfgang Special Deluxe the neck is beautiful as is the feel. You can probably tell I really really like them.

zslane · 10-25-2009, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HOT TUBES 70

sweet set up ZSLANE !!

where's the 6100 ??

That photo was taken before I got the 6100. Rest assured, though, it sits atop the DSL-100 head.

Benito · 10-25-2009, 03:04 PM

Little bit unusual this one.........
Gibson Nighthawk Special 3-pickup.....nice

Slanted bridge 'bucker, middle single coil, and a mini-bucker in the neck,
5-way switch gives 1) bridge bucker full, 2)both neck and bridge 3) neck full bucker
4) bridge bucker and middle single...super strat i guess, 5) neck and bridge singles (tele mid position) and pull the tone pot up and you have classic strat 5-way switching!!!
It's a Gibson but it's fender scale and strings through body like a tele....Mental
Mahog body and a maple top the same thickness as an SG overall, it knows not what it is...... but i love it and i still have it despite pawning it to buy an engagement ring
All i can say is 1 year later i still have the ring, still have the guitar, but got a different girl... he he rock 'n' roll!!!!

tubes · 10-26-2009, 01:52 PM

My first guitar that really sounded good was a Fernandes 'The Function'.
Bought it about 20 years ago.
On the day, in the shop, I tried a USA Strat, USA Tele, and the Fernandes. For about 5 hours.
They were all about the same price.

I knew very well the good reputation of the Strat and Tele. I had lusted after them for years.
But I couldn't get past the fact that the Fernandes sounded better than either of the Fenders - and very versatile, which was one thing that I was looking for.

Now I still have the Fernandes. It's worn - but still interesting with some good sounds.

However, I evidently didn't make the best investment decision that day.

Mcgarrell · 10-30-2009, 05:45 AM

Now two weeks ago i bought a Moog guitar model E1.It was my dream to purchase a Moog guitar of my own money and now my dream comes true.Really Moog guitar is one of the greatest musical instrument that Moog Music had invented.Now i am playing this guitar and feels that i am in heaven.Its tunes are so melodious that i can't explain. I have downloaded many guitar instrumental tunes from Royalty Free Music and just trying to play with my Moog.

kernal · 10-31-2009, 11:42 PM

An '82 Les Paul Custom, tobacco burst w/ gold harware. Paid $900 for it new in '82, sold it for $400 in '85.

Although it would have been worth so more now, I never really liked playing it that much. It was an "impulse" buy, from which I saved up my paper route money and went into a local music store and seen the LP. My guitar teacher had one similar to it, and I figured I couldn't go wrong...I was wrong.

I picked up a Fender strat and the LP went bye-bye. Been a strat guy ever since.

BluesDisciple · 11-01-2009, 04:46 PM

My Fender American Deluxe Strat HSS w/rosewood neck.

watchtheskies · 11-01-2009, 06:09 PM

well my first ever electric guitar was a black les paul copy which I got for my 15th birthday,
I had been playing an acoustic for a couple of years before that, but that was my first electric, I think it came with a crappy little practice amp, but I thought it was the best thing ever,

my first decent guitar was an Explorer made by a Yorkshire luthier named Pete Back Pete Back Guitars www.peteback.com, I bought it second hand for £270 in 1982, I was at college doing my A levels at the time, so where I got the cash I have no idea?

when I got my Gibson Explorer in 84 I sold the Pete Back, actually thinking about it I traded it in for a Marshall 4x12, It was a great guitar and I wish I had managed to hold on to it,
I've had some awesome guitars over the years, so why the heck did I sell them!!!, needed the cash I guess, but would love to have some of them back for sure

Ken · 11-05-2009, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by omikl

Mine was a Made in Japan Kimbara Strat copy that I got for my 18th birthday from my parents. They were made in the same factory that Fender later used for their models.

I still have it but it got a Kahler in the mid 80's

The Kimbara was followed by an Ibanez Moderne copy that I bought at Kitchen's Music in Leeds, half price to clear. It's a '74 (= no serial No.) and is currently leaning against the wall about four feet to my right

Unmodified by very very well worn.

OMG. I'm the ultimate Moderne fan. There was the Ibanez you have hanging next to the Les Paul Standard I bought in 1977. Both were the same price but much as I loved the "Moderne" I wanted a Gibson, not a "Japanese" guitar.

Then in 1983 my local guitar store had a Gibson Moderne and wanted like $800 for it. I didn't have the money at the time, so I missed that one.

Today there was the cheesy Epiphone copy on eBay with a Buy It Now of $399. I thought about pulling the trigger but it got bought. I don't regret that as much as it wasn't the korina model and it had a bolt on neck. But still....

So SOME day I'll have to pony up the $6k a 1983 Gibson costs...

Ken

Lespaulnmarshall · 11-22-2009, 06:19 AM

A Gibson Les Paul studio, don't have it anymore, it was an awsome guitar for the price, I was dumb by selling it.

Procter2812 · 11-22-2009, 07:04 AM

Fender USA Highway one... i left it for ages as i went to les pauls.

Came back to it and it plays like shit... needs a set up!

custom53 · 11-22-2009, 07:08 AM

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custom53 · 11-22-2009, 07:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RiverRatt

You guys are making me feel old.

Here's a picture of my LAST good guitar. I think I'm done for awhile.

I used to own a Sound City setup like the yours... Should have kept it...

Riffraff · 11-22-2009, 02:16 PM

Mine is a '81 Ibanez Destroyer II (DT400) which I still have. It's a set neck, hard tail with a flamed sunburst top. I tried a lot of guitars before I got it in '81 and it outplayed everything I picked up. I overhauled it about 10 years ago when one of the pick-ups died and replaced all the electronics. Now it's got SD pups ('59 neck & C5 bridge), 500K ohm CTS pots, and .015 orange drop caps. A year later I picked up an Ibanez RG520QSB then a Gibson LP Standard which have since become my go to guitars. Lately I've been thinking about selling the Destroyer. It sits in it's case for months at a time. It probably not getting much play time because it's in the original P.O.S. case which is now falling apart so it's a pain to get it out and put it away......lazyness.

Buggs.Crosby · 11-22-2009, 07:09 PM

My first real guitar was a "Student" model Jackson soloist...i worked my ass of trying to pay for a top of the line soloist but gave up and settled on it
Man i wish i had that back...the only difference i can remember between the two was the sharkfins and no binding...i'm sure that white is now an awesome cream

Gyroman · 12-13-2009, 07:33 AM

My first guitar was a bloody awful Kay catalogue job. I then acquired a marginally less awful Hondo Les Paul copy. It wasn't until 1981 that I could afford my first halfway decent guitar: a Washburn Stage A10. It was bright red, shaped like an Explorer with the bottom horn cut short, had a v-shaped neck and I absolutely loved it. In retrospect I should've paid the extra 30 quid for the A20 (brass nut and inlays, coil-tapped pups), but that would've meant waiting another week before I could afford it (the impetuousness of 16 year-old youth...). I still have that A10 and still play it but not so regularly now.

I then took a backward step with a rather nondescript Squier Tele, redeemed myself with an Epiphone '56 reissue Goldtop LP, which I was perfectly happy with until the 2002 Ebony Gibson LP Standard drifted into my life. I spent eight weeks living on lentils and rice to be able to afford that baby, and it was worth it all the way. So, I think that's me done with buying guitars now, as I now have everything I could possibly need axe-wise...

... Although lately I have been thinking that a nice US Strat would add that little bit of icing on the cake...

rockinr0ll · 12-13-2009, 12:43 PM

Gibson Les Paul baby.

EADGBE · 12-13-2009, 03:23 PM

My first electric was a 1982 USA Dean Z Baby. It has a DiMarzio super distortion type pickup. It's one of the nicest sounding guitars I've ever played.

ThreeTone · 12-14-2009, 08:29 AM

My first guitar was a 1965 Fender Malibu acoustic. Rather unremarkable guitar. But it said Fender on it, had a headstock like a Strat, and that was good enough for me at 10 years old. Still have it.

A couple years later I saved my grass cutting money and bought a used '76 Stratocaster. This was around 1980. That guitar would have some stories to tell! Still have that one too.

10-20-2009, 08:36 AM	#61 (permalink)
andyman95023 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Hollister Ca Posts: 22	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first REAL guitar is a 77 hardtail strat I traded for a motorcycle. I still have it complete with 3 bolt neck and 5 way switch. Andyman95023

10-20-2009, 08:47 AM	#62 (permalink)
AngryDeli Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Detroit, MI Posts: 6	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first electric guitar was a real piece o' crap J.B. Player with shitty pickups, warped neck and even worse Floyd Rose-copy whammy bar. That's what I got for letting my parents surprise me. About 3 days later, I took that POS guitar and traded it for a Fender Stratocaster (Korean model). My first REAL guitar was my Les Paul Studio Baritone, which I still use to this day. __________________ www.myspace.com/overtow My Gear: Gibson Les Paul Classic Gibson Les Paul Studio Baritone Gibson SG Special Faded Marshall JCM 900 (w/ 2-1960 Lead cabs) Line 6 X2 Digital Wireless Effects: Morley Bad Horsie 2 Contour Wah DigiTech Whammy 2 pedal Line 6 M13 Stompbox Modeler Last edited by AngryDeli; 10-20-2009 at 04:46 PM.

10-20-2009, 09:13 AM	#63 (permalink)
wkcchampion Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Italy Posts: 677	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? my 08 Parker Fly Mojo. I still have it. Also worth considering a Gibson SG with Bigsby tremolo I had years ago but... umpf no match to the Fly at all, period.

10-20-2009, 09:42 PM	#65 (permalink)
Fcal124 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: S.I., N.Y. Posts: 13	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? 1970 Cherry Gibson SG with Maestro Trem about $450-500 new. Man I wish I hadn't sold that guitar.

10-21-2009, 06:28 AM	#66 (permalink)
RobS Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Melbourne - Australia Posts: 219	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first guitar was a Yamaha RGX312 which I still have, only because all original members of KISS signed it. Then I was lucky enough to buy one of Paul Stanleys PS10CL's and I see that as the 1st real guitar I got. I have also an Epiphone LP Custom which is a great guitar as well and used to have a Gibson LP Custom which I recently sold and now also have a 08 Gibson LP traditional which I put on par with the Ibanez. The Ibanez feels very much like a Gibson Explorer to play and the Traditional is like a tank and really sounds great on both clean and dirty channels. Rob __________________ JCM900 4100 DR + 1960 A + B + Powerbrake Ibanez PS10CL Paul Stanley Custom Gibson LP Traditional Epiphone LP Custom No pedals.........

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10-21-2009, 06:50 AM	#67 (permalink)
Gtrman58 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: St. Louis, Mo. Posts: 191	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? It was 1971-72. I had been playing for about 6 years. I started out with a Norma and stumbled upon a mint condition 1951 telecaster with mint case and a 51 fender deluxe amp. ALL FOR 50.00 DOLLARS! I still have the amp.....and dreams about the guitar! I have photos of many of my past babies and I am still trying to figure out how to get them on the forum. __________________ 2009 JCM 2000 Dsl 100 JCM 900 LEAD 1960A MLB MC412A 1951 Fender Deluxe 2006 Hot Rod Deluxe 1995 Blues Junior 1995 Blues Deville Vox Path Finder 1982 Legend A 30 1980 Gibson Herritage Cherry Sunburst L.P. Standard 1980 Explorer White with gold HW 2000 52 Telecaster USA RI 1983 57 Strat LH USA RI 2003 57 Strat USA RI 1960 Silvertone Danelectro 1994 Fender P-bass 68 RI Acoustic guitars....not enough space to list !!!!!

10-21-2009, 04:03 PM	#68 (permalink)
StootMonster Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Clover, SC Posts: 127	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first electric was some pawnshop special called a Checkmate. Then I "upgraded" to a much better sounding guitar. It was a japanese import Les Paul copy called a Lotus. I played that one for quite a while until I got an Epiphone Les Paul. So somewhere in there was my first REAL electric.

10-22-2009, 01:46 PM	#69 (permalink)
custom53 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Ohio Posts: 126	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first guitar was a "no Name" with switches and knobs, 4 pick-ups, weighed about 40 lbs...! Had a couple more cheapos than I got a Hofner 6-string around 1973. Sold that for $75.00 (with case....!) Then I got got a mid 60s Strat around 1974. After that it was a blur.... __________________ 2004 Gibson Les Paul Flametop 1995 Hamer Duo Tone Sunburst 1991 Ernie Ball EVH Trans Black 1981 Hamer Special Trans Green Quilt Sustain Block Bridge with Checkerboard Headstock 1975 Ovation Breadwinner Black Marhsall JMP 2203 Half Stack Marshall JTM 45 Reissue Half Stack 2ea 370/301 Acoustic Bass Amps Peavey Classic 100 Half Stack Tweed Soldano HR50+ Half Stack Black Peavey Butcher 120 Watt Half Stack

10-24-2009, 11:20 AM	#70 (permalink)
zslane Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 368	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? 1996 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, pictured below. Purchased new from Guitar Center thirteen years ago. Clearly, my LP collection has grown since then... __________________ JCM2000 DSL-100 head + 1960A 4x12 cab 30th Anniversary 6100 head JCM2000 DSL-401 combo Les Paul Standards ('96 Goldtop, '99 Ebony, '03 Honeyburst) Les Paul Custom ('04 Alpine White w/ gold hardware) Les Paul Supreme ('07 Trans Black w/ black hardware)

10-25-2009, 03:04 PM	#74 (permalink)
Benito Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 21	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? Little bit unusual this one......... Gibson Nighthawk Special 3-pickup.....nice Slanted bridge 'bucker, middle single coil, and a mini-bucker in the neck, 5-way switch gives 1) bridge bucker full, 2)both neck and bridge 3) neck full bucker 4) bridge bucker and middle single...super strat i guess, 5) neck and bridge singles (tele mid position) and pull the tone pot up and you have classic strat 5-way switching!!! It's a Gibson but it's fender scale and strings through body like a tele....Mental Mahog body and a maple top the same thickness as an SG overall, it knows not what it is...... but i love it and i still have it despite pawning it to buy an engagement ring All i can say is 1 year later i still have the ring, still have the guitar, but got a different girl... he he rock 'n' roll!!!! __________________ I love it when a plan comes together.......... 1981 JCM 800 4010 Vox Valvetronix LE Gibson LP Studio..tweeked Gibson Nighthawk Special

10-26-2009, 01:52 PM	#75 (permalink)
tubes Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: New Zealand Posts: 81	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first guitar that really sounded good was a Fernandes 'The Function'. Bought it about 20 years ago. On the day, in the shop, I tried a USA Strat, USA Tele, and the Fernandes. For about 5 hours. They were all about the same price. I knew very well the good reputation of the Strat and Tele. I had lusted after them for years. But I couldn't get past the fact that the Fernandes sounded better than either of the Fenders - and very versatile, which was one thing that I was looking for. Now I still have the Fernandes. It's worn - but still interesting with some good sounds. However, I evidently didn't make the best investment decision that day.

10-30-2009, 05:45 AM	#76 (permalink)
Mcgarrell Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? Now two weeks ago i bought a Moog guitar model E1.It was my dream to purchase a Moog guitar of my own money and now my dream comes true.Really Moog guitar is one of the greatest musical instrument that Moog Music had invented.Now i am playing this guitar and feels that i am in heaven.Its tunes are so melodious that i can't explain. I have downloaded many guitar instrumental tunes from Royalty Free Music and just trying to play with my Moog.

10-31-2009, 11:42 PM	#77 (permalink)
kernal Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 28	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? An '82 Les Paul Custom, tobacco burst w/ gold harware. Paid $900 for it new in '82, sold it for $400 in '85. Although it would have been worth so more now, I never really liked playing it that much. It was an "impulse" buy, from which I saved up my paper route money and went into a local music store and seen the LP. My guitar teacher had one similar to it, and I figured I couldn't go wrong...I was wrong. I picked up a Fender strat and the LP went bye-bye. Been a strat guy ever since.

11-01-2009, 04:46 PM	#78 (permalink)
BluesDisciple Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 33	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My Fender American Deluxe Strat HSS w/rosewood neck.

11-22-2009, 06:19 AM	#81 (permalink)
Lespaulnmarshall Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Holland Posts: 490	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? A Gibson Les Paul studio, don't have it anymore, it was an awsome guitar for the price, I was dumb by selling it. __________________ Adwin Jimi, Frank, Rory, David, Eric, Jimmy, Eddie, Billy, Ritchie, Joe, Steve, Steve, John, John, Paul, Jeff, Dough, Michael, Angus, Peter, Ted, Alex, Randy, Eric, Chuck, Carlos, David, Brian, Pat , Michael Lee, Warren, Walter, Brian, Robin, Kieth, Stevie, Tony & Gary in no particular order. Spam!

11-01-2009, 06:09 PM	#79 (permalink)
watchtheskies Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 229	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? well my first ever electric guitar was a black les paul copy which I got for my 15th birthday, I had been playing an acoustic for a couple of years before that, but that was my first electric, I think it came with a crappy little practice amp, but I thought it was the best thing ever, my first decent guitar was an Explorer made by a Yorkshire luthier named Pete Back Pete Back Guitars www.peteback.com, I bought it second hand for £270 in 1982, I was at college doing my A levels at the time, so where I got the cash I have no idea? when I got my Gibson Explorer in 84 I sold the Pete Back, actually thinking about it I traded it in for a Marshall 4x12, It was a great guitar and I wish I had managed to hold on to it, I've had some awesome guitars over the years, so why the heck did I sell them!!!, needed the cash I guess, but would love to have some of them back for sure

11-22-2009, 07:04 AM	#82 (permalink)
Procter2812 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 769	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? Fender USA Highway one... i left it for ages as i went to les pauls. Came back to it and it plays like shit... needs a set up! __________________ www.sexpistolstribute.co.uk JCM800 2203X JCM2000 TSL100 Marshall 1936 Gibson Les Paul Custom Orville Les Paul Custom Fender Highway One Stratocaster Boss EQ Ibanez Tube Screamer Crybaby Wah Modded Boss TU-2 Fasel Crybaby Phase 90 MXR Boss Chorus CE-5 Boss OS-2 Modded

11-22-2009, 07:08 AM	#83 (permalink)
custom53 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Ohio Posts: 126	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? 1 __________________ 2004 Gibson Les Paul Flametop 1995 Hamer Duo Tone Sunburst 1991 Ernie Ball EVH Trans Black 1981 Hamer Special Trans Green Quilt Sustain Block Bridge with Checkerboard Headstock 1975 Ovation Breadwinner Black Marhsall JMP 2203 Half Stack Marshall JTM 45 Reissue Half Stack 2ea 370/301 Acoustic Bass Amps Peavey Classic 100 Half Stack Tweed Soldano HR50+ Half Stack Black Peavey Butcher 120 Watt Half Stack

11-22-2009, 02:16 PM	#85 (permalink)
Riffraff Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Dutchess County NY Posts: 336	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? Mine is a '81 Ibanez Destroyer II (DT400) which I still have. It's a set neck, hard tail with a flamed sunburst top. I tried a lot of guitars before I got it in '81 and it outplayed everything I picked up. I overhauled it about 10 years ago when one of the pick-ups died and replaced all the electronics. Now it's got SD pups ('59 neck & C5 bridge), 500K ohm CTS pots, and .015 orange drop caps. A year later I picked up an Ibanez RG520QSB then a Gibson LP Standard which have since become my go to guitars. Lately I've been thinking about selling the Destroyer. It sits in it's case for months at a time. It probably not getting much play time because it's in the original P.O.S. case which is now falling apart so it's a pain to get it out and put it away......lazyness.

11-22-2009, 07:09 PM	#86 (permalink)
Buggs.Crosby Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 478	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first real guitar was a "Student" model Jackson soloist...i worked my ass of trying to pay for a top of the line soloist but gave up and settled on it Man i wish i had that back...the only difference i can remember between the two was the sharkfins and no binding...i'm sure that white is now an awesome cream

12-13-2009, 07:33 AM	#87 (permalink)
Gyroman Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 13	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first guitar was a bloody awful Kay catalogue job. I then acquired a marginally less awful Hondo Les Paul copy. It wasn't until 1981 that I could afford my first halfway decent guitar: a Washburn Stage A10. It was bright red, shaped like an Explorer with the bottom horn cut short, had a v-shaped neck and I absolutely loved it. In retrospect I should've paid the extra 30 quid for the A20 (brass nut and inlays, coil-tapped pups), but that would've meant waiting another week before I could afford it (the impetuousness of 16 year-old youth...). I still have that A10 and still play it but not so regularly now. I then took a backward step with a rather nondescript Squier Tele, redeemed myself with an Epiphone '56 reissue Goldtop LP, which I was perfectly happy with until the 2002 Ebony Gibson LP Standard drifted into my life. I spent eight weeks living on lentils and rice to be able to afford that baby, and it was worth it all the way. So, I think that's me done with buying guitars now, as I now have everything I could possibly need axe-wise... ... Although lately I have been thinking that a nice US Strat would add that little bit of icing on the cake...

12-13-2009, 12:43 PM	#88 (permalink)
rockinr0ll Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,602	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? Gibson Les Paul baby.

12-13-2009, 03:23 PM	#89 (permalink)
EADGBE Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 10	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first electric was a 1982 USA Dean Z Baby. It has a DiMarzio super distortion type pickup. It's one of the nicest sounding guitars I've ever played.

12-14-2009, 08:29 AM	#90 (permalink)
ThreeTone Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Sherman, CT Posts: 129	Re: What was your first good electric Guitar? My first guitar was a 1965 Fender Malibu acoustic. Rather unremarkable guitar. But it said Fender on it, had a headstock like a Strat, and that was good enough for me at 10 years old. Still have it. A couple years later I saved my grass cutting money and bought a used '76 Stratocaster. This was around 1980. That guitar would have some stories to tell! Still have that one too. __________________ '83 Marshall JCM 800 2203 / '83 1960A 4x12 G12-65s / SED Winged =C= 34s / RFT V1, RFT V2, Telefunken V3 / Ultimate Attenuator '00 Fender Blues Jr. '09 PRS SE Custom 22 / Tobacco Burst '01 Gibson Les Paul Classic / Honeyburst '01 Gibson Les Paul Studio Plus / Desertburst '00 Fender '62 AVRI Strat / 3-tone 'Burst '99 Fender Telecaster / White Blonde '76 Fender Strat / Mocha '65 Fender Malibu acoustic "It whispers no, this will be, the last..."

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