davidl Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 I was just thinking about when I got my first Gibson guitar. I was so proud to join the forum and post about it. It was in October 2009 I think and it was my LP Robot. At the time I figured I would never need another Gibson. After all, I had this beautiful Les Paul in my hands. Who could possibly ask for more. That was the beginning of the disease. I have since bought 2 more new Gibsons and a Guild 12 string acoustic electric. A R0 and a ES-339 and the acoustic. Plus a couple of amps. I discovered that need has absolutely nothing to do with it. As long as the funds were available and weren't being taken from any other responsibilities it was justified. That and my wife gave her blessing. She actually asked me to get the 12 string. Here I am again thinking that I have everything I could possibly need...but there is still and probably always will be more that I would like. Still don't have anything with single coils or a new 6 string acoustic or the PA that I could use or a bass that should be part of the family. Too bad my wife retired a couple of months ago. This could take a while. I'm hoping to add one quality guitar per year for the next several years. I won't get to retire for another 6 years or so. Anyone else remember posting about their first (likely not last) Gibson guitar? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 i tried going back to my first posts but if i remember correctly a lot of the old stuff got "lost" during the big forum crash a while ago...but i would imagine mine would of been about gary moore or steve vai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Mine was prolly something stupid. Like everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigKahune Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 . I don't remember what the post was about. But I had been a guest lurker for some time. Then, on a lazy, hangover hazed day - Jan 1 2009 - I signed on and posted. I'm thinking it was one of those arguments Neo liked to instigate that finally drew me in. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 . I'm thinking it was one of those arguments Neo liked to instigate that finally drew me in. B) Like I said... those threads were pretty much useless, unless a body wanted to make a case for "logical fallacy" - not like he'd have understood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 I don't think I expressed myself very well. What I was getting at was the first time you posted about your FIRST Gibson and where you are today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 I don't think I expressed myself very well. What I was getting at was the first time you posted about your FIRST Gibson and where you are today. Oh. Now that I think about it, I believe in my first post, I was asking about an Explorer that is very probably not genuine. It IS, however, the best sounding and best feeling guitar in my bunch. Most other posts had to do with nonsense, and then the poor quality of the actual Gibsons I bought new. Is that what you were looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ne14t? Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Introduction post about a month after getting my guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 Oh. Now that I think about it, I believe in my first post, I was asking about an Explorer that is very probably not genuine. It IS, however, the best sounding and best feeling guitar in my bunch. Most other posts had to do with nonsense, and then the poor quality of the actual Gibsons I bought new. Is that what you were looking for? Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Glad to be of service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 Glad to be of service. Always glad to be serviced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dem00n Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Been here to god damn long... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Always glad to be serviced. I'd guess that you get a lot of practice when left alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazzboy Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Don't remember it and chance are that it's probably been erase from the computer crash this forum has gone through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidl Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 I'd guess that you get a lot of practice when left alone. Oooh ouch. Don't need practice anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This_Dying_Soul Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Today... posted about my first and second Gibsons. To add to it, I bought my SG Special in September of 2009. My wife and I were on vacation and took a short trip to Fredricton New Brunswick. While we were there I started looking around the local music shops and tried out a couple of hollowbody electrics. While doing so, a couple of SG's caught my eye but I ignored them at first... this shop was expensive compared to the Gibson dealer back home. Reason being, my local Gibson dealer is also the distributor for Canada. When we got home later that evening I went straight for the music store to try out their SG's... it was 15 minutes before closing time, I'd tried a couple out and went with my SG Special I have today. As mentioned in the previous post, besides that I love this guitar, I also doubt I'd ever sell it because I used money I received from my father's estate after he passed away. Unless I sold it for a profit, I feel this would be an insult to my father's memory considering he had no pension plan and worked very hard to save enough money for a comfortable retirement had he lived long enough to get enjoy it. My second Gibson, the May 2008 Guitar of The Month, Les Paul Push Tone was somewhat of an impulse buy too. When I saw it on Kijiji I just had to have it. Besides that the Les Paul was my second dream guitar next to the SG, this guitar is beautiful and at the price I paid, I couldn't ignore it. I got my wife's blessing after explaining how this was a limited run model of only 1000 produced and had serious chance of becoming highly collectable because it was a variation on the Les Paul with a unique feature not found on any other Gibson. I immediately contacted Gibson to verify it's authenticity and after hearing that everything appeared accurate to what was typical of the Les Paul Push Tone and arranged to meet him halfway between our cities. Looking back on the transaction it must have looked like a drug deal to the locals in this small town we were in. Two guys meet in a parking lot, first guy opens a guitar case, and the other guy nods his approval and hands him a thick envolope. The first guy retreats to his vehicle and proceeds to count the cash that was in the envelope, they shake hands a few moments later and go their separate ways. I love both my Gibsons and if I can afford to I plan to eventually buy more... as someone said it's like a disease. Once you get one Gibson, you probably don't need any other guitars, but they're so beautiful that you just can't help yourself. My wife is great. She keeps me grounded about my guitar spending, but she recognizes when I've found something I think is really special. Had this been a run of the mill Les Paul Studio or Standard, she probably would have said no. At the same time it's funny. Last year after seeing Zappa Plays Zappa, she planted the seed for this purchase by commenting how my next guitar should be a Les Paul because she was so taken by the sound of Dweezil's Les Paul up on the stage. I'd been scanning Kijiji ever since, just waiting for the right guitar. I even passed on a black 70's Les Paul Custom claiming to be signed by Les and his trio by someone here in my city... since there was no documents to verify the authenticity of the signatures I figured the guy wanted too much for it and it was my luck they'd be fake and basically ruin an otherwise valuable guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 1974. Or thereabouts. A second hand, pretty beat up 72 Custom, cherry sunburst, "fretless wonder", Grovers, Dimarzeros. meh. Didn't keep it long. Didn't have these intarwebz either yet. So I didn't post about it. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Not sure, but in my early days, I went head to head with Axe armed with misinformation from Tony Bacons The Les Paul Book and made a complete *** of myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swleary Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 My first post was about the faded Studio I just bought. I miss that guitar :( Been here to god damn long... Yes You could be spending more time with chicks at Walmart...just sayin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fl00dsm0k3 Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 wasn't im new to the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpanda Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 I never introduced myself. I believe I was replying to one of ChanMan's threads. cant remember what it was though... but my first thread was an NGD thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 No clue - Hell at my age I have trouble remembering my last post - let alone my first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 My wife says "That man could make friends with a fence post." I don't know about that, but my first post was a long time ago. I'm over 6,000 posts old. Not as old some but older than most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 My first post on the here was to post pictures of my new cherry mahogany studio. I lurked here before that but was mainly on the Epiphone side as I owned a casino (which is now up for sale on Ebay if anybody's looking for one with a bigsby). It was this picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silenced Fred Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 I was trying to decide between an SG and an LP. My first thread went like 4 pages of people going back and forth about how the LP is too heavy and the SG doesn't have enough sustain Over 7000 posts later, I'm still starting **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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