What was your first electric guitar? - Page 3

Mr Bill · 09-23-2009, 09:34 PM

Hello Toogy,

Gibson ES-125, never had an amp with it though.

Cheers

Ebony LP · 09-30-2009, 12:37 AM

My first electric guitar is the one I own now.....Epiphone Les Paul. I love it would love to own a Gibson Model.

BMS · 09-30-2009, 12:54 AM

I still have my first Silvertone guitar and amp that I got for my 10th B-day. And yes that's a Bobby Lee guitar strap.

ryanmichael95 · 09-30-2009, 01:06 AM

A POS white Harmony. Man that thing sucked, but at the time as a kid you would not have got me to admit it for a second. I thought I was the sh!t.

auriemma · 10-01-2009, 08:15 AM

Mine was a ~1971 Toyota Barney Kessel Semi-hollow. I had it for about 6 years. The electronics died during a school concert, the next day my dad traded her in the next day for my Bradley Les Paul.

jonesy · 10-01-2009, 08:29 AM

Summer of 78' one of my friends sold me a used P-Bass copy for $60. Then later that year I bought a brand new blonde Lotus Strat copy while I was down in Tampa Florida.

69GTLP · 10-01-2009, 01:09 PM

My first electric was an early 70's Gibson SG-II. Bought it at a local shop for $300. Young and stupid I ended up trying to paint it in dayglo colors folowed by covering it with beer labels. Frets were worn to the point of not being able to play it anymore. I sold it a few years ago for $750.

Wizzle · 10-01-2009, 03:02 PM

My first electric was a Chinese Squier Strat, it was almost brand new but the heroin-addicted owner only wanted £50 for it.... It was so terrible it almost doesn't count as a proper guitar. My second was a cheap but excellent value Gould LP copy in sparkle blue with surprisingly good pickups.

lineboss58 · 10-09-2009, 11:40 AM

My first electric was a 1965 vox jmi clubman bass, second hand basket case i had to restore it first. That started me off ive still got it behind a cupboard i wont be getting rid of that one.

L60N · 10-09-2009, 11:46 AM

Gretsch G5120 in Burnt Orange

Webtroll · 10-09-2009, 06:04 PM

some cheap import with a top mounted bridge in the wrong place (taught me about intonation to fix it) and crappy pickups (learned how to solder and mount standard humbuckers in a guitar using a hammer and chisel HA!). no truss rod and the neck was made of what appeared to be maple plywoos with the grain all running in the same diretion and the laminates were perpedicular to the fingerboard. i used 9's back then so there wasn't much strain on the neck anyways.

Leendrix · 10-09-2009, 06:17 PM

A cheap little First Act Strat knock off. Black with white pick guard.

Three single coil pu's.

vkennedy · 10-10-2009, 07:16 AM

A big old Harmony archtop with strings a mile off the fingerboard and a neck the size of a treetrunk. I soon traded it in on a '62 Gretsch Corvette that was a dream to play in comparison.

Blues Rocker · 10-11-2009, 02:08 AM

My first was a 1960 Fender Jazzmaster. I did surf and Stones covers in the '60's with it. It is still in the family. Though it was a beautiful playing guitar, it wasn't a great lead guitar, compared to a Tele or a Strat. And the controls were so complicated. Up/down, right left, blah blah. Just give me two pups and let me play!

chromewhore2010 · 10-11-2009, 03:57 AM

The classic black strat knock off with a forgetable brand name. It sucked. Bad. But it was my first guitar and at the time it was the coolest thing ever.

chromewhore2010 · 10-11-2009, 04:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dino

My first guitar was a Univox "Morsrite" copy.
It looked like the guitars The Ventures used to play.
I think it was called a "Hi Flier" model or something like that.

The neck on that guitar was incredible.
I wish I still had it.

Dude... I wish i had a Univox Hi-Flier... I for some reason really like them.

PSM · 10-12-2009, 04:33 PM

Gibson The Paul II - Wine Red. My parents bought it for me for Christmas the year I started taking my guitar lessons very seriously. Maybe it's just because it was my first electric guitar and the one I grew up playing, but it's still one of the nicest feeling guitars I've ever played. I just recently took it out again, cleaned it, and set it up, and I just sat there for hours playing it because it felt so good. I also like the fact that it has much less of a dirty/muddy LP sound than my Standard.

dlmorley · 10-12-2009, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSM

Gibson The Paul II - Wine Red. My parents bought it for me for Christmas the year I started taking my guitar lessons very seriously. Maybe it's just because it was my first electric guitar and the one I grew up playing, but it's still one of the nicest feeling guitars I've ever played. I just recently took it out again, cleaned it, and set it up, and I just sat there for hours playing it because it felt so good. I also like the fact that it has much less of a dirty/muddy LP sound than my Standard.

Those The Paul II's are great guitars. A friend has one and it plays and sounds great and cost him less than a studio (which it beats easily)

PSM · 10-12-2009, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dlmorley

Those The Paul II's are great guitars. A friend has one and it plays and sounds great and cost him less than a studio (which it beats easily)

Yeah, they are killer, especially for the price. I'm always keeping my eye out for a good deal on a used one in mint condition. I believe my parents paid $600 new for mine back in 96-97.

I'd definitely like to put new tuners on it, though, as they feel a bit "loose" to me. Other than that, I've got zero complaints with this guitar and would probably buy a couple of them if they made them new again.

lexluthier · 10-13-2009, 07:04 PM

Me in '81 with my Univox LP, and a better picture of the guitar now.

SG Marc · 10-18-2009, 08:09 PM

mine was a Sam Ash Carlo Robelli SG from around '78 or '79. I put in a Dimarzio super distortion and the guitar sounded great. I experimented on the neck with a hammer to find out what the inside looked like. Now 20+ years later it sits naked (and modified) in my basement ,waiting for a new neck to be made.

captcoolaid · 10-18-2009, 08:25 PM

Schenker V yes the black and white ones.

captcoolaid · 10-18-2009, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leendrix

A cheap little First Act Strat knock off. Black with white pick guard.

Three single coil pu's.

That looks like Steve Morse's guitar.

Olli · 10-19-2009, 05:29 AM

Black made in Japan Stratocaster - sold it when I was in college (stupid, stupid, stupid)
I really miss it.

tom1965 · 10-19-2009, 10:06 AM

My parents bought me a Westbury standard back in 79 for my xmas , a great guitar not a million miles away from a prs shape meets an sg , had di marzio super distortions as standard , powerful guitar and real nice to play , probably the reason i kept at it !

mad dog · 10-20-2009, 10:17 AM

Mid 60s SG Junior. I hated that thing, was astounded recently to see how much they are worth.

lpshredder13 · 10-20-2009, 08:01 PM

My first guitar was a Harmony junior scale strat copy i got when i was 7 from JCPenney. I never really played until i got an Epiphone G400 about four years later

atheos · 10-25-2009, 04:55 PM

My first guitar was a Fender F-210 LH acoustic, which my son took and restrung as a righty. My first electric was a Cort Les Paul semi-hollow that I traded (with cash) for a LP custom. The Cort was a great guitar, but I'll never regret that trade.

Mr Insane · 10-25-2009, 09:59 PM

Peavey Firenza

AS90 · 10-26-2009, 06:09 AM

A Squier Standard Stratocaster.

09-23-2009, 09:34 PM	#61 (permalink)
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Wizzle Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Hartlepool, England Posts: 332 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 1 Post	Re: What was your first electric guitar? My first electric was a Chinese Squier Strat, it was almost brand new but the heroin-addicted owner only wanted £50 for it.... It was so terrible it almost doesn't count as a proper guitar. My second was a cheap but excellent value Gould LP copy in sparkle blue with surprisingly good pickups. __________________ Fact me til I fart.

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lineboss58 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 283 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: What was your first electric guitar? My first electric was a 1965 vox jmi clubman bass, second hand basket case i had to restore it first. That started me off ive still got it behind a cupboard i wont be getting rid of that one.

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Blues Rocker Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 105 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: What was your first electric guitar? My first was a 1960 Fender Jazzmaster. I did surf and Stones covers in the '60's with it. It is still in the family. Though it was a beautiful playing guitar, it wasn't a great lead guitar, compared to a Tele or a Strat. And the controls were so complicated. Up/down, right left, blah blah. Just give me two pups and let me play! __________________ "One great amp; one great guitar..."

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chromewhore2010 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 180 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: What was your first electric guitar? The classic black strat knock off with a forgetable brand name. It sucked. Bad. But it was my first guitar and at the time it was the coolest thing ever.

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PSM Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: CT Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: What was your first electric guitar? Gibson The Paul II - Wine Red. My parents bought it for me for Christmas the year I started taking my guitar lessons very seriously. Maybe it's just because it was my first electric guitar and the one I grew up playing, but it's still one of the nicest feeling guitars I've ever played. I just recently took it out again, cleaned it, and set it up, and I just sat there for hours playing it because it felt so good. I also like the fact that it has much less of a dirty/muddy LP sound than my Standard. __________________ My band: Mad Orchid (click to listen)

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