BluesKing777 Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Just a stupid story for ya... after the Beatles thread reminded me. When I bought my first electric guitar at age 13 after breaking my acoustic, I went to the newly opened Kmart and bought a Kyowa electric - I could not copy the photo but if you are interested scroll down to the Kyowa in this guy's collection, but mine was the Whammy Bar model not pictured!!!!! What a gem? http://www.conceptmusic.com.au/pages/Graham's-Collection.html After twanging the thing for a few weeks, I met up with another dork from school who had another shocker budget electric and we then tried to electrocute ourselves while ruining my dad's radiogram......which he never knew...... Some weeks later, my doof dork friend suggested we visit 'Peter' up the road, who also apparently plays guitar, for a 'jam'. We dragged our fancy guitars to his house and then out to his 'music room' where he was practicing just a little bit of Joe Pass on the guitar his father had just bought him, which I am pretty sure looked like this: http://www.gbase.com...s-1969-sunburst Hmmmm. Man, what a showoff! After watching and listening open mouthed to this stunning playing and sound for a while, we bid "Peter" adieu and dragged our budget guitars home - literally dragged them by the guitar lead......kick the fence, lookout cat etc. I don't know what happened to "Peter", but never heard of him again. There is a moral in this story somewhere, to do with my underlying Gibson addiction .... BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurfbird Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Some of those "junk" guitars are so special. I have a Teisco that just rumbles and twangs. The funniest thing I remember as a 10-year old aspiring guitarist and bandleader was how we would all plug our guitars into the same amp. Four inputs (and a splitter makes five!), so two guitars, bass, vocal mic and a drum machine clacking out either Rock I, Rock II, Pop I or Waltz... When we visited the bigger kids and saw they dedicated an amp to each instrument, we thought that was way too expensive to attempt. Why would someone do something like that? Why leave those extra inputs unused? Wasteful! You really haven't lived until you've tried to plug two guitars into a fuzz pedal. Talk about battling for sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merseybeat1963 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 ..In my day... the budget guitars floating around were made by Univox & Aria...so good that they had to be sued to stop making them. And the amps were beat up black & silver Fenders... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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