lpaholic59Don

Being the Les Paul addict I am, course it was a Gibson Les Paul,
Lets hear your stories please?

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fiftycalibre

American series Fender Stratocaster. All white, maple neck.

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Adwex

After I discovered the Ibanez "Sabre", I was determined to get one. I finally found one in Black Cherry for sale in a newspaper classified. Picked it up for $400 with case.
It wasn't until later that I became a Les Paul addict.

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JCM800

my first was my strat, and i chucked in the SD hotrails in the bridge
but in a few months i can add this to the list

Anniversary Lacquer/TV Jones

a gretsch anniversary, with a lacquer finish, trestile bracing, and TV jones pickups. sounds freaking sweet.

coldsteal2

My first electric was a Fender 59' Strat,

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LJGriggs

Let's see... I bought a 1953 Gibson LP Goldtop with P-90's and a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece for $200 back in 1974. It was owned by an old hog farmer near Macon, GA that said he took it with him on his honeymoon. He had just bought a Gretsch Chet Atkins Special and didn't need it anymore. The gold had turned green, so he stripped it down to the bare mahogany and gave it a simple oil finish. It actually looked pretty good, all things considered, and it played like butter. It weighed a ton ( in excess of 12-lbs). I removed the Bigsby and put a wrap-around stop-bar on it like the '54 LP's. I sold that guitar basically nothing in 1979 to help pay for college. Right now it would probably pay for a year of my Son's tuition at Ga Tech...
I guess that's my story of "the one that got away"...

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Raised in Macon, GA
Been playing those "Southern Fried Boogie Blues" for 35-yrs...

Harpozep

1977 Ibanez Artwood Artist





I moved up from my Crestline SG ( Don't ask )


The Ibanez weighed a ton it was all ash and very bright. First real pickups I ever owned. Real nice. I used it until I bought my 1968 Les Paul Black beauty. I kept the Ibanez case since the Gibson had none.

It took some years before I got a decent amp though. I think my first amp that had any tone was the Ampeg V4 head and the Sound City 4 x 12 cab. I sold the sound City head since it sounded Sh@ty!

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BluesForDan

my first good electric was my '76 Ibanez Les Paul copy. I wish I could say it was my '74 Strat, but it was a dog. Took me a couple of years to figure it out.

They were just strats in those days. One single model line. Trem, hardtail or 12 string. That's it.

hard to fathom, isn't it?

RobertD

1961 Fender Jazzmaster. Seafoam Green w/Matching Headstock.
Wish I still had it.

bowhunterwt

I first good guitar was a 78 Fender P-bass. Like a dum ass I traded it for a cheap accoustic. I wish I had that P-bass back

Kramer Krazy

My first electric guitar was a Cort Flying V that was blue. Bought it in 1983. My first "real" guitar was a fluke. I had been saving for a Kramer in 1984 and 1985, but was only going to be able to get the Focus 4000 (Flying V) with the money that I saved up. I was actually making payments on the guitar to a local dealer with the agreement that once I had paid enough for it, he'd order it. When I almost had enough money, he said he couldn't order the guitar I wanted because he wasn't a dealer and returned my money to me. This is when my father and I drove up to Reliable Music in Charlotte, NC to look at their Kramer inventory.

They had the white F-4000 in stock, but my father spoke with one of the owners of the store about guitarists and how most go through many, many guitars before finally getting the one that they want and like. I was all set to buy the Focus (Japanese made), but my father told me to wait and we'd discuss it on the 2+ hour ride home. It was during this time that my dad asked me which guitar I really wanted. For me, it wasn't the Focus model, but the US-made Vanguard. After a long and lengthy discussion, he said he'd kick in the rest of the money I needed to "upgrade" from the Focus (about an extra $250). So, on that Saturday afternoon of October 29, 1985 when we got home, we called the store and ordered the white Vanguard that was hanging on the wall.....it arrived on October 31, 1985.




22+ years later, I've had a couple hundred guitars go through my hands, but.....I still have the Vanguard.

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* 1989 4203 combo amp

5er driver

An '83 Squier Strat MIJ, black with a rosewood finger board. Still have it.

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Peter Brewsky

The first good one was charvell cxm dlx, but I sold it, and that was a tsupid thing to do... Then I bought jackson professional stealth EX and professional KE3. I´m about to make a deal with jackson custom shop, but it´s kinda difficult from finland and with my therrible english...

mysalsa

My first good electric guitar was a gibson les paul studio, wine red with chrome hardware. loved it!:P

stryker59

it was a mexi deluxe players strat. i still have it and have since loaded it w/ custom shop 54 pickups.

13yguitarman

An Early squier model

GeeJay

My first guitar was an Epi Les Paul Special II.

My first good electric guitar was/is my Fender MIJ 50's re-issue strat.

My favourite electric guitar is my 2002 50's neck Gibson Les Paul Standard.

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Lucifuge

First guitar was a Kramer Artist 650G (the one with the forked aluminum head). Basically a jazz guitar with a great clean sound. Had tons of others, but wanted to go back to playing it with my hard-rock band, so I decided to put the 85 and 81 EMG's in it (kept the old SD's though). It's all I play now (as far as electric goes).

guitarguy1964

I bought my first good guitar in 1981 at the age of 17. I had just started gigging in my first band and had saved the $400 to buy it. It was a 1973 Deluxe Les Paul Gold top that had been routed for humbuckers. Actually I use the term routed "loosely". Don't you have to use a router for that term to apply? I think the guy who owned it before me used a butter knife and a mallet. I didn't discover that till years later when I replaced the Dimarzio Super Distortions with a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge and I cleaned it up with a router. In the late 80's I became a "Strat Guy" and sold it. By the mid 90's I was missing the Les Paul and bought a Silverburst Custom and I've been a Gibson guy again ever since.

RachelMorgan

First decent guitar: This Les Paul Studio



Followed by a full trade in of my starter gear for this Schecter C-1 Hellraiser:



And finally in February I got what I always had wanted:

Slapjaw

I still have it 1979 Gibson Les Paul Custom natural, but with a white pick guard. I've never seen one like it yet

codyfarmer

I actually owned a mid 70's Martin & Co. electric guitar... it was yellow-wood w/ a dark brown stripe. It had a hella ugly headstock but reverberated like a les paul. I sold it because I was 16 and stupidly wanted a Stratocaster. I'm not exactly smart.

ZoomZilla

My first good electric was a Charvel Model 4. I ended up selling it for $200 with the case. Man, I was dumb. I would love to have it back now!

DocNrock

My first "good" guitar was a Gibson "The Paul."

FERGIE

Bought both this year......a Tokai Les Paul 2001 japanese love rock model......then my Patrick Eggle T.I. Legend,prior to obtaining these two guitars
i could never understand why you should have to pay over £500.00 for a guitar........I HAVE NOW SEEN THE LIGHT!!!!!

graydane

My 1st real guitar was my '78 Wine Colored Les Paul Deluxe, I bought from a friend in '79 for 450.00. Put a lot of miles on it back in the day, but still have today and would never part with it.

Of course I have added a few things since.

lp_junkie

my first electric was a 1977 LP Deluxe that I got new in 77 (my dad was cool, a Les Paul for my 5th B-day), it's been trashed since but it was a nice guitar at one time, but the 80's were bad to it (modded to fullsize humbuckers and a floyd rose).

My very first guitar was an acoustic of some sort given to me in 1974 (I was 2 so it didn't last long), I didn't really get serious about my gear until the early 80's, and now I am just chasing vintage tones.

At one time I had 11 Les Pauls, 2 Explorers, and a Strat. The need to eat and the end of gigging forced me to downsize, I have 1 Les Paul and a Strat now.

poeman33

A Les Paul Deluxe with the smaller pickups. I think it was a 79, bought new. I kept it in pristine condition until some drunk threw an ashtray at my head before I even started playing, and I used it as a goalie pad. I switched to Strats a few years later and have never changed.

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Jamiee

being another les paul addict I'd say it was my Epi Les paul, good quality copies

plexipaul

USA Fender Am. Std. Strat with Kahler trem.