Your first love....

[Searcy]

Sometimes I work for Six String Bliss, the longest running guitar podcast on the interwebs. We have interviewed folks like Steve Vai, John 5 and Paul Gilbert and George Gruhn and the first two questions we always ask, which I now pose to you, are....

 

1 What was your first guitar...?

 

2 Do you still have it?

[Silenced Fred]

Squier Strat starter pack. Bought it with all of my own money in 7th grade.

 

Traded it in towards a Samick LP style guitar with telecaster controls, then sold that to my friend and bought my Gibson

[brad1]

80's George Washburn Acoustic. My brother got it at a yard sale for $60. It came with a beat up case.

He gave it to me in 1987 as a gift.

I still have it (and the case).

I have played very expensive Taylors and Martins that do not sound as good as my yard sale prize.

I will never get rid of it. :)

 

My first electric was an Aria Pro II "The Cat". A strat copy, it is what got me to start wanting to play electric.

I still have it. But it needs repair, and so is out of commission. Some day a "project" guitar.

[RobinTheHood]

My first bass (and first 'guitar' ever) was a mid 80's Lotus 4-string, pearl white. Long gone.

 

My first acoustic was a 1970's Kingston 12-string that was so unplayable that I converted it to 6 and put electric strings on it. I still have it as a wall hanger.

 

My first electric was a mid-80's Gibson SG with a Kahler. I got it on trade for an Oscar-Schmidt A/E. Long gone and regret it more and more every day. I'm hoping that someday it miraculously comes back to me like the S-500 did. Eight years missing and it showed up at a friends house a couple years ago. That was a good day.

[JDK]

3/4 size KAY Strat style guitar with one humbucker. It was a terrible guitar, but I loved having it at the time. Sold it for a 70's Univox LP.

[davidl]

This one.

 

I bought it around 1978.

It is a Japanese LP made in the Kasuga shop for the Canadian market. The brand name on the headstock is Northern. Notice the maple leaf fret markers. This pic was taken before I swapped the pups for SD 59 and JB and had a major tune up and polishing.

As a strange coincidence, it is coming out tonight. I'm playing with the same guys I played with back then. First time together in over 30 years.

Gonna be a blast.

 

Dave

[Californiaman]

Here she is. In all of her stunning beauty.

 

[davidl]

Here she is. In all of her stunning beauty.

 

 

Wow, beauty.

How long ago did you buy it?

[Tim Plains]

Caliman, that was your first guitar?

Mine was a white Fender Squire w/rosewood. I had it for over 10 years and loved it but my basement flooded one day and ruined the electronics. That led to my first Gibson (SG Special) and the constant GAS I suffer now.

[dem00n]

You know it...

[Dub-T-123]

dem00n was my first love :wub: :wub: :wub:

[DJScott]

Mine was a 70's tobacco burst Kay SG copy with trem. Kickin' myself for trading it for a Lotus LP copy.

Gonna try to find another one in Ohio next month when I go home to see my dad.

[LarryUK]

Mine was an 'Eko' acoustic. It's sitting in the corner of my bedroom now. Perfect neck. Plays great for over 40 years old.

[neilpanda]

My first. I keep her in her case so she doesnt collect dust. Unfortunately her pots and neck

pup are dying. I would fix her up, but I dont use her enough. I just use her for unplugged jams

[cookieman15061]

First real guitar was the nylon stringed Aria from the early 70s.

 

Traded that in on an Aria SG copy

[MrNylon]

My first guitar was an SG Jr. 1968.

[ChanMan]

My first guitar was an "Audition" 6 string electric.

 

I gave it to my sister, so technically I should be able to lay hands on it if I wanted to.

 

It looked a lot like this:

 

[rocketman]

Mine is a Takamine acoustic that I still own, but that doesn't really count. My true first electric and first true love is my Gibson Sonex, which I still own to this day. I used that guitar heavily during my gigging days. The Texas humidity and lack of playing nearly ruined it forever though. But I revived it by replacing worn and rusted parts. I also had a professional crown the frets and repair the warp in the neck (it actually twisted!), but she's good as new now.

 

[milod]

My first dozen years or so were with so many guitars traded in and out that I honestly can't begin to remember them all.

 

The very first was a very inexpensive classical guitar.

 

The first guitar I liked enough to keep was the S100C Guild SG type in got in the early '70s. Then in spite of lots of continuing swaps, I ended up with a that 1950s Harmony electric archtop, the ES175 "patent infringement" Ibanez, and two AE Ovations (electric legend and country artist nylon string.)

 

Also I have my first banjo from the mid 1960s that I haven't played in ages, and my first mandolin from the same era, ditto.

 

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[DanvillRob]

My first guitar was a $20 guitar I bought in Calgary. Then I got a "Kay" guitar, (from Ward's?)...but my first "real" guitar was a 1964 Fender Jaguar. Next was a 1965 Febder Jazz Bass.

 

Next guitar was my Gibson Jubilee, (which I still have), then my wife bought me a Gibson Dove..... next was my Ovation 12-string, (all of which I still have).

 

I now have 9 guitars....and SERIOUSLY looking for my 10th.

[bluesrob]

first guitar was a Harmony acoustic back in the 70s. My best friend gave it to me. I don't know what happened to it. Later, in the 80s, I bought an American Standard Fender Strat -- gun metal gray, just like Robert Cray, but with a trem. I sold that and a great huge tube amp I had bought from a guy down the road -- sold my little Fender practice amp. I also had a cheap bass someone gave me; i don't know what happened to it. Then no guitars until late 90s, when I bought a cheap classical while in Japan. Next came my current crop from the last two years: a Yamaha electric, an Epi Dot, a Gibson 339 and a Fender VG strat.

[charlie brown]

My first "Love," and I still have it. (It's been here, before... ;>))

 

Bought new, in 1964...Fender "L" series Strat.

 

 

CB

[Californiaman]

Wow, beauty.

How long ago did you buy it?

 

It's in my signature. But since you asked. It's a 1988 ES-175. They were unique during that time because they were mahogany back and sides with a maple laminate top.

Yes folks, that was my first guitar.

Not my first bass, but my first guitar.

I walked into GC Santa Ana shortly after seeing Izzy Stradlin use one in G-n-R at the Celebrity Theater in Anaheim shortly after Appetite for Destruction came out.

Killer show. He was playing one just like it. Any way, I believe Ron Wolf sold it to me. And to think I was going in there to get some bass cabinets.

[guitar dog]

My first guitar was guitar store brand from about 1965 - I wish I could remember the brand name. It had uncovered humbuckers in the bridge and neck position, single coil in the middle. My friends were all impressed that I had a "5 pickup" guitar. Sold her in the early 70's.

[Bender 4 Life]

11th birthday 10/74 cherryburst Harmony Hummingbird copy...no pic of it

 

1st electric was this '71 Electra "Tree of Life" SG copy.......my cousin fell on it, and snapped the headstock off........I repaired it and made her boyfriend buy it from me.