What was your first electric guitar? - Page 2

**jim777** · #16 10-25-2007, 01:51 PM

My first was a 4 pickup Teisco del Rey, and it came with an amp for 25 bucks.

panacea151 · #17 10-25-2007, 02:01 PM

My first guitar was out of the Sears catalog. It had an Explorer shape and was called an "Effector" it had built in effects buttons for distortion, phase, chorus and a few others. It was a huge piece of junk but it sure increased my finger strength.

LethalAe86TypeR · #18 10-25-2007, 02:02 PM

A excel start copy.

courtney2018 · #19 10-25-2007, 02:35 PM

I bought mine out of JCPenny in the mid-80's. It was a no-name brand (bo-bo brand as I call it) Steinberg look-a-like, black, tuners on the bridge. It had a humbucker at the bridge position and equiped with a trem...non-floating the best I remember. You could only push the bar down (to do dives). If you could pull it up it wouldn't go up much. Maybe raise the note a 1/8 to 1/4 of a step.

I got it because it looked cool, I couldn't afford an Ibanez I liked and it looked like the guitar that Vito Bratta played, which I was really into at the time.

I paid right around $110 for that POS, but it was decent enough I suppose. I eventually saved up and bought a '90 570 Roadstar.

apmaman · #20 10-25-2007, 02:38 PM

Epiphone Les Paul Special II. Man that thing sucked ass! but it was still cool

andy7jem · #21 10-25-2007, 02:43 PM

Les Paul Custom

(I was 17 and working and it was my first ever hire purchase acquisition

)

Wish i still had her

Gurj · #22 10-25-2007, 03:37 PM

****ing hell mate! A LP custom for your first guitar

Very nicely done.

My first guitar was a thing called an Axe. Basically a starter package with a 0.00001W mini amp I brought off my mate for £50. Really **** guitar, but I still have it

richard1973 · #23 10-25-2007, 03:40 PM

while flicking through a catalogue at 17 i thought 'ohh guitar, that'll be fun!!'

Hondo strat copy. Then I got a Roland 10watt amp, then about a year later i got the thrash master for that umph!!! lol

nice!

richard1973 · #24 10-25-2007, 03:43 PM

just like to add, that guitar about 2 years ago finally got a nice case for it....a green box about 4 foot high with wheels on

had been collecting dust for too long!

FloridaNative · #25 10-25-2007, 04:59 PM

My first electric was my Sekova LP copy that my step dad got me used from a pawn shop for my birthday. It was older than God when I got it and I've had it for over 20 years. Here she is....

apmaman · #26 10-25-2007, 05:01 PM

Thats a really, really worn out fretboard! The finish looks in good knick considering how old it is.

FloridaNative · #27 10-25-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by apmaman

Thats a really, really worn out fretboard! The finish looks in good knick considering how old it is.

yeah, it's a total beater, but I think my step dad only paid like 20 bucks for it at the time. It's got these totally bizarre pickups that sound unlike anything else I've ever heard, but I like them. hehe

Dee · #28 10-25-2007, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Gurj

****ing hell mate! A LP custom for your first guitar

Very nicely done.

My first guitar was a thing called an Axe. Basically a starter package with a 0.00001W mini amp I brought off my mate for £50. Really **** guitar, but I still have it

OMFG! You brought some memories back. I remember the Axe package. It was awful!

My first electric guitar was a pink Hondo Les Paul copy. Great guitar! I think it even had Dimarzio pickups. I remember buying my first set of strings too. I had no clue about gauges and I ended up with 7's! Urgh... not nice, especially on a 24.75" scale.

I didn't have an amp, so I played through my brother's hifi and somehow blew the speakers up.

FloridaNative · #29 10-25-2007, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Dee

OMFG! You brought some memories back. I remember the Axe package. It was awful!

My first electric guitar was a pink Hondo Les Paul copy. Great guitar! I think it even had Dimarzio pickups. I remember buying my first set of strings too. I had no clue about gauges and I ended up with 7's! Urgh... not nice, especially on a 24.75" scale.

I didn't have an amp, so I played through my brother hifi and somehow blew the speakers up.

LMAO!! That's a great story, Dee.

Dee · #30 10-25-2007, 05:08 PM

Not when you get a belt across your backside it ain't.

PS: I also had a cardboard box drumkit, so my brother would play that. Of course, there was no kick drum, so we used to bang our knee on the floor. Funnily enough, we wrote about 15 songs a week in our little punk band, the Reapers of Death! LMAO! I was 9, I think.

My bro still has tapes but he won't give them to me.