dchristo Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 my first is a 37 L-50 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th and a few others with no pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Had a Humingbird back in the mid-80s. Great feel but kinda bland high end on the high end. Let it go and kept a D35 (mistakes happen). I found a 60s J45 in the 90s I Iived with for 6-7 years. It's the one that really showed me what a Gibson could do. Except that it had one of those skinny necks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 . My first Gibson - - a beat up Cardinal Red 1965 Melody Maker I bought in '74. I got a pic of what it would've looked like new - I soon modded it and used it a lot for several years. I still have it. A blast to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponty Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 J-55 from 1970s. Got that in 1984, followed by a Gospel from 1980 bought in 1986. Sold both. Incidentally, they were almost the same guitar except for wood and finish. Then a 1991 J-185-Should have kept that one. Then a Koa j-185. Then in 1993 I got 2 J-45s which I still have and are awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aster1 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 First Gibson: Fuller J-160E 1962 Reissue Still have it and still LOVE IT. (love all 4 of my Gibsons, prolly my SG the least however. If pressed the SG would go 1st. I don't know why I haven't bonded with it. It's a beautiful guitar & great build & workmanship. Nothings at all wrong with it. Maybe I just haven't given it enough of a try? Aster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 . ▲▲▲ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Mine was a 1977 POS Hummingbird. It was pretty but sounded like wet cardboard filled with cotton. No photos but it was like this but with parallelogram markers... very red mahogany B/S but natural top. Kept me from even picking up a Gibson for over 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Had a Humingbird back in the mid-80s. Great feel but kinda bland high end on the high end. Let it go and kept a D35 (mistakes happen). I found a 60s J45 in the 90s I Iived with for 6-7 years. It's the one that really showed me what a Gibson could do. Except that it had one of those skinny necks. I played a skinny neck Hummer at a shop the other week and I could not believe HOW skinny that neck was! My J45 Standard neck would be 3 times the amount of wood. What do you do to play on it, flat chords and bar chords? Anyway, someone loved it and bought it, maybe a child? BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 . My first Gibson - - a beat up Cardinal Red 1965 Melody Maker I bought in '74. I got a pic of what it would've looked like new - I soon modded it and used it a lot for several years. I still have it. A blast to play. The big Red has the key ingredient - P90? BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinoyGibson Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 My first Gibson that I got this year is a 1996 J-100 Xtra with Solid Sitka top and Solid Honduras mahogany back and sides. It sounds awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 The big Red has the key ingredient - P90? . . . . . . BluesKing777. Yep, single coil. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyd Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 A 1974 J-50, which was my first acoustic (I had a telecaster back then too). It was purchased new in (I think) Bangor, Maine. Not sure, but I seem to recall a price around $350. This is one of the few things I still have from that time in my life, and I really didn't take good care of it. Sat around the house outside its case and was ignored for many years while kids and pets took their toll on it. Then it sat in the case for many more years and smelled very moldy when I took it out 4 years ago. After some major repairs, it sounds and plays great today. I am surprised by how dark the finish has gotten, and that did not happen until much later in its life. I actually believe most of the darkening happened while it was in the case. But as much as I like it, I really prefer my 2008 J-50 today. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Yep, single coil. . So, like Keef, if the neck was playable, that geetar would be all you need, plus grunty amp. If I played in a band again, I would have something like that plus one of those National Reso electrics for slide! No more mucking about with delicate Fender stuff BluesKing777. Sorry to hijack the thread, OWF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 A 1974 J-50, which was my first acoustic (I had a telecaster back then too). It was purchased new in (I think) Bangor, Maine. Not sure, but I seem to recall a price around $350. Must have been from Viner's. Here is the '55 ES-295 I mentioned. I refinished it in the fall of '84. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fp Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 My first Gibson was a 1963 J50 , black plastic bridge and all ! It was an outstanding guitar and really the only guitar, of the dozens that I have sold, that I wish I still had. Sold it at a guitar show in 1998. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I'm not techy enough to do the picture thing but I grew up a martin guy and for some strange reason I thought I wanted a Gibson and bought a 1997 CL-20 SP a couple of years ago and just recently bought a 1993 J45 and have never held a guitar in my hands that come even close to the way these guitars feel and the J45 is the best of the two, the neck is like it was custom made for me. and the sound?.....come on, they're Gibsons... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballcorner Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 My first Gibson was a 1957 Gibson J200. I never really developed a relationship with "blondie" so I only kept her for around a year, but it was a beautiful guitar to look at and wonderful on the ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasAK Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 My first Gibson was a mid to late 60s es-335. My music instructor told me I needed to learn a rhythm instrument. It had the skinny neck and the neck was broke at the head. I got it cheap and had it fixed. My second was a "68" j-160. Traded that in a few years ago and got a j45 mc. Sorry no pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Took me a while to run down this photo; c. 1970 with a cherry sunburst J-45. I have no idea the year of the guitar, but it wasn't new when I got it. It was my first Gibson, and my first "good" steel string guitar; traded a Ramirez classical for it as I recall. I really don't remember if it was a good guitar or not, but I thought it was at the time, and I loved it. It's one of those I wish I had back, maybe not for the quality of the guitar, but for the nostalgia... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Took me a while to run down this photo; c. 1970 with a cherry sunburst J-45. Exciting old photo - adjustable bridge, , , ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Exciting old photo - adjustable bridge, , , ? Yep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Yep! Guess : Ceramic, , , not rosewood, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrairieSchooner Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Guess : Ceramic, , , not rosewood, Rosewood as I recall, but it's been a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearhead88 Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 This one , I just got it a week ago ............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 This one , I just got it a week ago ............. Love this small burst ! What model is this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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