Topic: First Guitar

What was your first guitar, did it nearly put you off playing (presumably not totally  default/neutral ) and do you still have it?

Mine was a black Westone (I think - it was a long, long time ago  default/roll ) with 2 cream humbuckers for about £65. I sold it to fund a Jap Squier Strat in red with maple neck. This was late 1980's.

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Still got mine, ESP LOVE IT, named it after the wife.

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crowhue wrote:

What was your first guitar, did it nearly put you off playing (presumably not totally  default/neutral ) and do you still have it?

Mine was a black Westone (I think - it was a long, long time ago  default/roll ) with 2 cream humbuckers for about £65. I sold it to fund a Jap Squier Strat in red with maple neck. This was late 1980's.

Mine too!  Got it in 1986, with some of my scholarship money.  It was a cream Pantera x250, Matsumoto. 

As I understand now those were awesome for the time and are highly sought collectables now.  If I ever find one, out there I'd seriously consider picking it up. 

My second guitar was an ESP I got later that year (first income tax return) from Valley Arts, it was a Prototype for the George Lynch/Steve Stevens model (they were both interested in similar directions) and its a one of a kind.  I still have it all these years later.  Its changed a lot because I didnt treat it as a one of a kind.  I played the hell out of it.

The neck broke in 91 and I changed the M1's with Duncan Invader and a Pearly gates.  I dont play it anymore, and its changed so much from the original...new neck, (when grunge hit I got rid of the original Floyd) new Hamer bridge, Sperzels, etc.

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Mine was an old Levin Jumbo, in 1970, I gave a mate 3 quid for it, and I kept it until 1978 when I got a new Yamaha FG 160, which I still own to this day.
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by being somewhere else.

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I bought mine at K-mart for about $40. I think the name was a Telsco, something like that. It was back in the 60's. I don't know what happened to it. I do now have a Fender Telecaster that I bought new some years ago and I don't see myself departing with it.

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A "Hondo" acoustic. No idea how much it cost, my dad bought it for me. The year was 1990. I had glam rock wishes and heavy metal dreams.

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I don't have my own guitar but my brother have.. The name of his guitar is guitar country i think..


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