btoth76 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 That doesn't look too bad at all, Bence! Mine was exactly like this one... P. Absolutely nothing wrong with that! Nice! (However, I am the weird guy who thinks that Norlins are the best Gibsons :D)) By Google-ing on "Vermona verstärker", You can explore the discrete beauty of the socialist industrial design. Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 First guitar I ever bought was back in the 70's. I didn't even play guitar but a guy I used to work with owned a music store that was going out of business. He offered me a late 60's or early 70's SG... I just couldn't resist, it was so beautiful and he gave me a really good price, couple hundred bucks I think... Held on to it for a while and tinkered around but really had no idea so I sold it. Damn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 1st one I "bought" (eg was not given as a b-day or Christmas present) 71 Fender Telecaster I was the 1st kid on the street to have what everyone was calling a "Real" guitar... Mostly everyone was playing the Japanese imports that were on sale at the Sears Roebuck stores. Bought it a mom and pop place called Metro Music which was a block away from out Junior High School, all in the center of town. (the only music store in town, and I took lessons there) The store called late in the afternoon the day it arrived, I had to wait what seemed an eternity till after school the next day to pick it up. We lived about 3/4 of a mile from the center of town, no one was old enough to drive, so you had to hoof it. I remember it was a very hot day in late spring. Carrying that tele in that beautifully cool black case with the silver Fender logo, never got too heavy to carry on that day! I really wish I kept that one. /Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxom Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Stratocaster, neighbor's house, traded legos for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The first guitar I bought was in 1978 with money from a summer of mowing lawns. It was an Aria Les Paul Custom Copy. By an odd co-incidence for the last hour or so I've been playing the SECOND guitar I got which I believe is almost exactly the same as the Aria LPC copy... Still sounds good! These days, of course, it sports a p'g.... P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edlo Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 What was the first guitar you ever purchased and where did you buy it? My first was a Fender Squire P Bass I bought from Guitar Center for just about $300.00. My second was a 5-string Alembiv Spoiler bass again from Guitar Center. This one I financed. My first guitar was a Gibson ES-175 and yes, again, from Guitar Center. This one I paid straight cash homey. I'm not usually a GC fan, but thinking back, that ol' Santa Ana store took pretty good care of Californiaman back in the eighties. My first was also a Fender Squire P Bass, I bought at my local guitar shop in Brooklyn NY. Shortly there after I switched over to a Gretsch 6 string. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edlo Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Stratocaster, neighbor's house, traded legos for it. That's what I call an impressive trade, good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I started off on bass but eventually I did buy a guitar. It was a no name strat from a mail order catalog available to Air Force officers. This would have been around 86 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The first guitar I bought myself, was a Philippino copy of a Fender Jaguar in Subic Bay at an Olongapo City music store. I believe it was about $40 American at the time. Great guitar. Not all the switches worked like they should, but friends in the band were "ET"s (electronic technicians) and quickly fixed all the problems. I kept it for a few years and ended up giving it to my rhythm player when I bought a real Fender Jag out of a pawn shop in Bremerton Wa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Brand new 1975 Strat, "any color you want...300 in a case out the door...". Music Museum, Pitman NJ. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 My fourth guitar, the first that I bought, and the first half-decent guitar that I'd owned to that point, was an F-341 Takamine acoustic I bought from Guitar Works, Richmond, VA in June of 1982. Still have that one. Great sounding guitar with a booming low end, Gibson-like headstock, gloss black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brc Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 My 1st guitar I ever bought new was a 1958 Les Paul jr. Had other guitar before that one, but that was the first guitar I bought. Wish to hell I still had it now I had a Gibson arch top I used for a while, dont remember the year, but I think it was around a 1954/1955, and my uncle let me use his Martin d-18. How many guitars have we let get away that we wish we still had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Mine was a Cortez Les Paul copy I bought back in 1976. It was from a store by the name of Guzoppie's on 8 Mile in Detroit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimi Mac Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I just wanted to take a moment and say thanks for sharing your stories with us. A lot of you guys had very sentimental stories to share. I wish mine were as sentimental as yours, but hey... maybe the fact that I've already bought one of my boys a guitar and know the other wants to play bass is a start. I know my daughter wants a guitar too. Not pink either. She hates pink. I'm sure a turquoise or purple one will suit her just fine. Again I do mean this sincerely when I say I appreciate you sharing your memories with not just me but the entire Gibson Lounge. Thanks again. Keep 'em coming. My daughter is mostly responsible for my playing at all now... As mentioned before, I ended up selling my '89 American Standard Strat when strapped for cash in my youth after making it thru some very hard times. I ended up with a cheap-@$$ Squire Strat and a solid-state Peavey Audition 110 TransTube amp as my sole rig. I eventually simply gave up and put it all away in a closet and forgot about it for nearly 20 years. I eventually married and met my step-daughter @ 4 y/o and when she hit approx. 10 she found it in my closet and asked me what it was... Clearly she was dramatically interested. I pulled it out and said it's an electric guitar what do you think it is... Her eyes lit-up and the rest is history... By 11 y/o she was writing & arranging her own songs and was quite an accomplished player. She had me customize the Squire Strat with a black pickguard to look cooler than the original "Blackie" configuration (w/white pickguard) and in no time was breezing thru chords and scales like a natural. So good that I was utterly amazed. Here was her 1st public performance playing a song she wrote, arranged, and fronted herself @ 11 y/o... I quickly bought her a better quality axe; an Ibanez ART100W (white Les Paul style guitar) so we could play together. I picked up the Strat and she would play her Ibanez. It was a very rewarding thing that I had never imagined as my own parents never really shared in my music sojourn with me... I really didn't like the Strat and had turned into a hard-tail guy and decided to purchase my Peavey JF1-EX (ES335 style guitar) and I've never looked back... It actually all was promoted buy a musician buddy of my from the UK that I met online that was a huge supporter and promoter of me playing again and I bought more gear and have worked my way up to 6 electrics for myself and 1 acoustic and my daughter now has 3 electrics and 1 electric/acoustic and 1 acoustic. I dug even further in the closet and found a mid 1980's era Vox Concert 501; 50 watt tube amp, that was given to me for free that I never played back in the day and found it worked flawlessly even w/original tubes still installed and it became the mainstay tube amp for me after my "revival" for which I wrote a song with that for a title... Between my buddy in England that goes by the persona; Martin "**** Dastardly" Aston, and my daughter wanting me to teach her how to play, I had a music career ressurection of my own over the last 5 years or so... My daughter is the light of my life and she makes my heart soar! To this day she's one of the few guitars in high school band (now as a Junior) and the only girl guitarist in the school band and has performed a number of music concert projects with local bands. I got a 2nd chance at my Bluesman dreams and I've never looked back! I gigged out for the first time in 25+ years last summer @ 45 y/o and I'm having the time of my life!!! I turned 46 last fall and had some of the best gigs of my life just as my birthday came 'round... This year is shaping up to be even better and now I own 2 real Gibson Les Pauls to-boot! Luvin' it!!! Thanks to my daughter's guitar dreams... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 a "Royal" LPish copy from Centre Pawn & Gun in Centre Al. in '77 for $175.....not a very good guitar. traded it for a Fender Bullet Bass eventually after buying the '68 Univox for $200 at Midway Pawn in Oxford Al. and the '71 Electra Tree-of-Life SG for $75 at "The Music Shop" in Anniston Al. and a '75 GLPC Na. for $600 at Flash Guitars in the same town between '79 & '83. also bought a Silvertone "amp in case" guitar during that time but didn't keep it long enough to count. after leaving my 1st wife all I had left was the Uni and the Electra, of which I have neither now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemarie Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Bought my Les Paul when I was 15 (with help from my Dad). I bought it in 1989 at Cinthioli's Music in Philadelphia, PA for $400 (complete with hardshell case!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteWilson Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 My first guitar was a terrible Silvertone acoustic, which would have been only good for slide. As I was very young, I did not know about slide playing Delta Blues! My first electric guitar was a gift from my Dad, who thought he was surely wasting money. It was also a Silvertone dual pickup guitar vaguely reminiscent of a Jazzmaster. An OK guitar, and it was the first guitar I used in my first neighborhood band. The first guitar I actually bought was a 1956 Fender Music Master in a cream color. I bought it at Easterling's Music in Vidalia, LA, in about 1967 or so. Of course, I did not know what I had, so I naturally sanded it down and painted it red! Eventually, I traded it in, also at Easterling's Music for a 12 string 335 style guitar, after I fell in love with Jim, as he was known then, McGuinn. I wish I still had that Music Master. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 First guitar I bought with my own money was a Les Paul copy Electra MPC. Japanese made with cool sound effects modules that plugged into a back compartment. Nice idea but a pain in the *** if you needed to change out one effect for another, as it only held 2 at a time. and my son holding her back in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notes_Norton Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Gibson ES-330 - bought a a now defunct Ma&Pa music store in Fort Pierce Florida. I still have it. At the time I was a sax player who doubled on the guitar players 'other' guitar in rock bands. I also doubled on bass, flute and keyboards. In the 1970s the ES-335 was a popular guitar. I wasn't educated enough about guitars to know the difference so when I saw the used ES-330 for $300 bucks (negotiated price) I took it home and decided to actually get serious about guitar. I didn't actually get serious about guitar until about 5 year ago, and that's when I learned the difference. And I'm glad I ended up with the 330 - I love P90 pickups. After playing a P90 guitar for a long time, everything else seems to sound dead and dull. My newest guitar has P-Rails on it, so I can get 95% P90 tone with 95% strat sounds and a very nice Humbucker. Probably will be my last guitar unless it breaks, in which case, I'll replace it. Insights and incites by Notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Thats a cool picture you look like Peter Frampton in it. That's not the first time I've heard that. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Could be worse he got a lot of females hot and bothered in his day. Well, here's my wife hanging out with him a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krock Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Mine was a eleca strat copy my parents bought for me 10 years ago for a Christmas present. I think they redeemed their Argos vouchers to get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 My first "real" guitar, bought new (with my own hard earned cash) was a 1975 LP Standard, purchased from Mel Bay at his retail store. Here's the guitar (and me) in a "then and now" from late 70's and the early 00's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 My first "real" guitar, bought new (with my own hard earned cash) was a 1975 LP Standard, purchased from Mel Bay at his retail store. Here's the guitar (and me) in a "then and now" from late 70's and the early 00's. thats pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis G Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Here's the guitar (and me) in a "then and now" from late 70's and the early 00's. You're looking very David Gilmour"ish" in that '70's shot (well, except for the LP LOL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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