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I aint telling :-

 

 

By the way, we should have a poll about this, who thinks it's better to strat with a strater pack and who thinks it's better to start with the guitar of your dreams. And while we are at it, who thinks starter packs are a waste of money and just another excuse for makers to make a little more $

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Eppy Casinos and SGs are a good choice and not too expensive the G400 Custom is an exceptional guitar and as someone stated a few posts back the Casino can be played acoustically.I have a MIM Strat I paid $290 for and it's a great guitar also.You can pick up pretty decent new and used amps for$100-$200 also such as Vox Pathfinder 15R and some of their lower wattage modeling amps.The better the guitar you learn on the more inspired you'll be.

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I aint telling :-

 

 

By the way' date=' we should have a poll about this, who thinks it's better to strat with a strater pack and who thinks it's better to start with the guitar of your dreams. And while we are at it, who thinks starter packs are a waste of money and just another excuse for makers to make a little more $[/quote']

 

 

I think you are right--my guess is a lot of people give up early because they bought crap equipment. But if you don't buy the crap first, then you have no way of knowing how nice a Les Paul, for instance, really is. It took me 20 years get my Gibson. I played a lot of crap during those 20 years. During those 20 years, I played on and off. I never fell in love with my guitar. Now I play every day...without fail. It might be 20 minutes in front of the TV unplugged. Or it might be 2 hours in the basement with the amp.

 

I've now got to the point where I doesn't feel right not to play when I have the down time. I give most of the credit to the LP. It just feels great to have it in my hands.

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I'm serious.

Less than perfect gear can be a real handicap.

 

I quit screwing around in 1993 and bought my first REAL American guitars.

After years of cheapo, used, imported, laughable junk and one decent Kramer I finally spent the $$$$.

 

Got myself an American Standard Strat in Tobacco Burst and a Les Paul Standard in Ebony.

Never looked back.

 

Being a single man, I could do such things....

 

 

 

As for the original poster (Welcome, by the way!) I get the feeling his intentions are somewhat different here.

 

That would be a subtle understatement for those of you hip to the charade. Same old game, 10th inning...

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Eppy Casinos and SGs are a good choice and not too expensive the G400 Custom is an exceptional guitar and as someone stated a few posts back the Casino can be played acoustically.I have a MIM Strat I paid $290 for and it's a great guitar also.You can pick up pretty decent new and used amps for$100-$200 also such as Vox Pathfinder 15R and some of their lower wattage modeling amps.The better the guitar you learn on the more inspired you'll be.

 

bonzo' date=' your sensible advice is much appreciated. However, if you'll go to your profile page and put a short line of dashes (10 or fewer) or something at the top of your sig, and a couple of spaces under that, it'll make it much easier for someone to differentiate between your post and your sig. ie:

 

[b']Eppy Casinos and SGs are a good choice and not too expensive the G400 Custom is an exceptional guitar and as someone stated a few posts back the Casino can be played acoustically.I have a MIM Strat I paid $290 for and it's a great guitar also.You can pick up pretty decent new and used amps for$100-$200 also such as Vox Pathfinder 15R and some of their lower wattage modeling amps.The better the guitar you learn on the more inspired you'll be.

 

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Epiphone John Lennon '65 Casino,Natural Casino,Epi. G400 Custom,Epi. EJ160E John Lennon,Epi.Custom Shop Firebird sunburst,Vox Phantom XII,Mk VI Acoustic,Astro IV Bass Model V273.Hagstrom Corvette&Mk II.'66 Gretsch Tennessean.various Fenders&other guitars&amps[/b]

 

Instead of this:

 

Eppy Casinos and SGs are a good choice and not too expensive the G400 Custom is an exceptional guitar and as someone stated a few posts back the Casino can be played acoustically.I have a MIM Strat I paid $290 for and it's a great guitar also.You can pick up pretty decent new and used amps for$100-$200 also such as Vox Pathfinder 15R and some of their lower wattage modeling amps.The better the guitar you learn on the more inspired you'll be.

Epiphone John Lennon '65 Casino,Natural Casino,Epi. G400 Custom,Epi. EJ160E John Lennon,Epi.Custom Shop Firebird sunburst,Vox Phantom XII,Mk VI Acoustic,Astro IV Bass Model V273.Hagstrom Corvette&Mk II.'66 Gretsch Tennessean.various Fenders&other guitars&amps

 

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Thanks, mon.

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I'm serious.

Less than perfect gear can be a real handicap.

 

I agree to an extent but I don't one needs to lay out big money for a good quality guitar to start with. There are a lot more options for great value guitars that aren't crap that weren't around when I started out. Today, if you spend three or four hundred dollars on a guitar, you can buy yourself an instrument that'll last a few years or even longer before you start to feel like you really need to upgrade.

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