My first guitar was a Fender Starcaster from Target. It's pretty nice, has a nice finish, and has a built in tuner. I still have it as I bought it in April. It turned out to be a waste of money though, because I stopped playing with it, and bought myself a SIlvertone Strat copy from http://zzounds.com/
Starcaster
Silvertone Strat
The acoustic was a birthday present from my parents. I spent a few months fiddling around with it, never learning more than the A Major chord.
I bought the Strat clone with my own money in June. For the price, I couldn't ask for much more. The amp has a solid tone, the guitar came set up greatly, and it came with a bag. My only gripe is that the bag is cheaply made, and it comes out of tune often. That, and the cable is pretty cheap, but thankfully the cable that came with the Starcaster is amazing.
What about you?
Mine was a Les Paul copy that says "El Degas" on the peghead.
It was made in the '70s in Korea.
I bought it in a second-hand store for $50 over 20 years ago when I was 18.
It's still my only electric.
I moved it from house to apartment, from closet to storage room for the last 20-some years, and finally decided to get serious about learning to play.
I wrapped a newspaper ’round my head
So I looked like I was deep
That's a lot of picks. I struggle to find one lol
That's a lot of picks. I struggle to find one lol
I used to do stagehand gigs. Everyone drops picks, and someone has to clean up the stage after the show :D :lol:
I wrapped a newspaper ’round my head
So I looked like I was deep
Haha, I wish I had that job. I've looked around online, and decided to try to make my own picks out of old credit cards and the like. Hope it works well.
Edit: Haha, just looking for an old card I found two picks.
Edit2: Pics of my guitars:
(external because they're giant)
(do you like my makeshift pick holder? :P)
Mine was a RamÃrez. It was a present from my father 25 or 30 years ago. He bought it in the RamÃrez store, in the center of my city.
Mine was a RamÃrez. It was a present from my father 25 or 30 years ago. He bought it in the RamÃrez store, in the center of my city.
I love the finish on it :o
Didn't we do this already???
Okay...
A 1963 Harmony Bobkat...when I was 12 I got it. I offered it to each of my three sons when they turned twelve...with the third one taking it up. He's pushing 15 now and ready for taking my own second axe...a '66 Fender Jaguar with replaced pickups: a Country Gentleman and a Gibson Humbucker. He can not only outplay the Bobkat...but most 20 year olds, as well.
It's more than sentimental to me. My Dad "evaporated" on September 11th 2001..........
"Feel what you play...play what you feel!"
Wow...that sucks. Sorry to hear that. My dad was working at the site a few days after, removing the rubble.
First guitar... an Arita 6 string acoustic I bought for $50 about 35 years ago from a friend. I still have it. I bought an Epiphone 12 string acostic, then a Jackson Dinky hardtail, and the most recent, a Seagull Maritime Spruce 6 string acoustic. Sounds light years better than my first.
It is difficult to answer when one does not understand the question.
I had a true POS from the Montgomery Wards catalog. My first real playable guitar? Take that pic that kent_eh posted, make it a black beauty with the trademark "Bently" on the head stock and thats it. Back in 1978 it was. Sold it to my wifes cousin, never saw the money, never saw him again. Wish I still had it.
"Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard,
grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em."
-- The Webb Wilder Credo --
Mine was a RamÃrez. It was a present from my father 25 or 30 years ago. He bought it in the RamÃrez store, in the center of my city.
I'm jealous - will he buy one for me too?
My first guitar was a no-name steel-string acoustic with an action a mile high from Reg Roylance's shop in Barkingside High Street, Essex, UK in 1974. Reg long went the way of all things, but he was a jazzie who could play almost any instrument and that made him unique round our way. He was a revolutionary too - apparently his assistant got done for possession and became the first person I ever knew who got busted but didn't get fired.
My last memory of the guy was him (on TV) boarding up his shop one Friday before the National Front were due to march through the street on the Saturday.
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"Be good at what you can do" - Fingerbanger"
I have always felt that it is better to do what is beautiful than what is 'right'" - Eliot Fisk
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my parents took me to the guitar store and I tried out an SG. the neck was too wide. then I tried a Strat., but it cost too much...250$. so I gi=ot a blue Fender Mustang instead. it was 1965.
Great thread. My first acoustic was a Takamine G-Series that my wife bought me for my 30th birthday. My first electric was a 1986 Washburn G10-v (think "Wayne's World" guitar) I bought for $100 at a local music shop about a year later.
-=- Steve
"If the moon were made of ribs, would you eat it?"
Epiphone SG bought it at Daddy's Junky Music in CT about 6-7 years ago. Still have it but don'e play it. Nothing really wrong with it but I usually just play my MIM Strat and sometimes the Jackson.
"It's all about stickin it to the man!"
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll!
