First Guitars You Started With - Back To Your Roots

[Silenced Fred]

Squier Strat that I bought in one of those Starter kits back when I was 11... i couldn't stop playing it until I got pneumonia for a month, and missed a talent show we were going to play... I stopped playing until last year, and now you just can't stop me.

 

I later traded that in, because the strings were (no joke) .50 inch off of the fretboard, got a samick lp copy, then sold that and bought my Gibson.

 

I hope to later this year buy an Am. Std. Strat (White with rosewood fretboard)

[S t e v e]

first guitar was a jackson electric (not sure of model), lovely flame transparent red. i got it from soho soundhouse on totenham court rd many moons ago it was on offer £279 down from £429, after 6 months i sold it to one of my guitar teachers other students and bought my teachers fender strat usa deluxe off him, it was pink with a maple neck and lace sensor pups...my first propper guitar

[Notes_Norton]

I've still got my first guitar. Gibson ES-330 that I bought for $300

 

It's the one on the right (grin)

 

[Dom_JEM]

I had a Vintage SG copy, i still use it now. its set up for slide guitar now with heavy strings on, i also installed a inferno1 pickup i got from a friend from his ibanez RG

[ChanMan]

One like this... it's an Audition. I understand they were the UK's version of the old Woolworth's store brand.

 

 

 

I have been refused audtitions because of this guitar... one dude laughed at me when I told him I played an Audition.

It was very gratifying to have someone run across an old practice tape of me playing it and ask me "Who is THAT??"

 

[Laaz]

First guitar was a old beat up Sears electric guitar handed down from my brother. Real POS. The first real guitar I got was a brand new 1981 Ibanez Destroyer DT-400CS. Get this, my mom bought it for me under one condition... I get my hair cut. Needless to say I grew it right back..

[Dazed]

Man this has been a great read!

 

ok since some of you are showing pictures lol. Back in 1990 I had my Les Paul already but was looking for something with a Floyd Rose. My buddy had just purchased a white Martin Stinger for $189 that had a Floyd Rose on it. I believe this was Martin's first entry into electric guitars. Well when I got to the store, the only thing they had left was a pink one. So to this day, I still have a Pink Martin Stinger SSL-1 sitting in a case. My daughter will get it when she gets older. Man I can't find a pix now sorry!

 

Info on these guitars if interested - http://www.vintageguitar.com/features/brands/details.asp?AID=1135

[rockman82]

Here's my first.

 

 

Original Case

 

 

 

Here was my second guitar, my squier strat. It doesn't have the blue finish anymore.

 

AND then, my first left handed guitar.

 

My recend guitar was this Fender Stratocaster MIM.

[RichCI]

My very first guitar was a Yamaha acoustic that I ended up selling to a hippie friend of mine who played it "until it wasn't playable anymore." After that, I got my first electric - a D'Agostino - which I still own and needs some work (understatement) to get to be playable again.

 

Not-so funny thing is, when I was a teenager, my father brought home a Les Paul Custom for me to try out (probably with the intention of buying it for me) and I said I didn't like it because it was too heavy. Young, dumb and full of ***.

[Shnate McDuanus]

My first was a great old Guild classical guitar with a worn-out top and a busted tuning gear.

 

It sounds beautiful and I still pull it out every now and then. And yes, I consider it a "real" guitar.

[stevef]

Guess I was a little lucky. I played some keyboards in a band (mid-late 60s). My parents basement became the primary practice spot (equipment storage spot for a couple of bands as well). There were all sorts of interesting stuff to fool around with (Ludwig/Slingerland drum kits, Fender Jazz bass/ampeg B-12, Hagstrom guitar /standel 4x10 solidstate--that used to "cut out", Gretsch Anniversary much like this one and an unclaimed Harmony (broadway?) acoustic as well as a 2x10 Tremolux, a Premier Reverb and assorted fuzz/wah peddles). Spent a lot of time in the basement learning from the Hagstrom's owner.

First puchase was in '68-'69 a Gibson LG-12, I still have it. It sounds great, looks nice too.

[flyingarmadillo]

Harmony acoustic 6 string in sunburst. I eventually got bored and refinished it to "natural" It died during a move in about 1976 when it got left in a car in west Texas that pretty much melted all the glue. Came back to a pile of wood more or less. The second wasn't really mine - an Alvarez 12 string that belonged to a girlfriend. While it wasn't too hard getting rid of the girl, it about killed me to give that guitar back!!

[FirstMeasure]

First Guitar was a Global student sized acoustic that I still have around.

 

Then a Harmony acoustic from Sears.

 

Then an Astro P-Bass copy

 

Then, finally a real guitar, 1988 Stratocaster. Still have it and just upgraded the pickups to Lace Sensor.