Post pics of the guitar that started it for you

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Post pics of the guitar that started it for you

Post by I_Only_Said » Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:12 pm

Hey all, figured it would be fun to see peoples answers. Post the picture/video/cave painting of the musician/ musicians with the guitar that planted the seed for your offset love to grow.... Heres some of mine:

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Yamanaka of the pillows, One of the first fender guitars that caught my eye for not being a strat, i believe he plays a cyclone.

Of coarse growing up in the 90's I saw a lot of this
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To avoid being more stereotypical, since posting Kurt ill save the Thurston picture, plus Stephen malkmus' jazzmaster is really a thing of beauty.
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Post by chnlone » Fri Sep 21, 2012 11:27 pm

My offset love began because of my great-uncle's passing. He didn't have any children, and my grandfather was the closest relative that could handle his estate. He brought home some amps/guitars, knowing I'd wanted to play an instrument for quite some time, and my life changed forever.

Of course, it didn't help that Nirvana were huge at the time.

Anyway, the guitar that started it all for me:
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My #1 forever. :-*

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Post by Mikechickenhead » Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:21 am

chnlone wrote:My offset love began because of my great-uncle's passing. He didn't have any children, and my grandfather was the closest relative that could handle his estate. He brought home some amps/guitars, knowing I'd wanted to play an instrument for quite some time, and my life changed forever.

Of course, it didn't help that Nirvana were huge at the time.

Anyway, the guitar that started it all for me:
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My #1 forever.
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Post by theslack5 » Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:51 am

Life was never the same again


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=442l9NMlvvI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Post by Hoops » Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:52 am

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Post by Ceylon » Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:02 am

I believe that, while listening to Nirvana and Sonic Youth, and later The Cure and Dinosaur Jr, I didn't pay any attention to what guitars they played until one day, I was checking through ads to find a used strat when I found this exact picture:

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And I'm not kidding when I tell you the feeling was a mixture of being in love and horny as fuck.
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Post by eggwheat » Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:32 am

The first guitar I ever played happened to be jazzmaster shaped although i didn't know that of course when my dad brought it home for me as I was only 5 years old...I recently restored it and am using it again..
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But what inspired me to try a Jazzmaster was The Cure's video for 10:15 on a Saturday night...

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Post by noisepunk » Sat Sep 22, 2012 3:38 am

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Andrew Wilson from Die!Die!Die!- incidentally, my username came from this band too.

I mistakingly thought it was a jaguar, and after researching them pretty extensively I became obsessed and joined here not long afterword. Somehow my interested shifted to jazzmasters (which is where it should've been initially), and so I built one, and now it's easily my number one guitar (though I have a few others that don't fall too far behind).

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Post by MattK » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:05 am

Over 40s reprazent:
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Post by Ex Lion Tamer » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:50 am

I'm going to interpret the title in its strictest sense: the guitar that got me interested in guitars wasn't an offset.

It was Joey Santiago's Goldtop Les Paul. Well, Kim Deal's goldtop LP. He borrowed it from her.

http://aleceiffel.free.fr/images/gear.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Funny thing is, although this guitar started it for me, I have never owned a goldtop les paul. But I got my first guitar, a Gibson "The Paul" (I couldn't afford a gold top LP) because of joe Santiago. When I finally had the money to buy a goltop LP, my tastes had changed.
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Post by MurrayGold » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:53 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIFj5Zk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... ata_player

Was all Strats till I saw that Jazz, Nirvana also did it.

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Post by Julien Unison » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:56 am

Not a photo but a videoclip :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiomcuNlVjk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Before seeing this video I wasnt realizing that 90% of the bands I was adoring were using those guitars...
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Post by MaritimePilot » Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:11 am

The first guitar that did it for me was probably either Slash's Les Paul from the Welcome to the Jungle video, or possibly one of Izzy Stradlin's hollow body Gibsons. I was 10 when Appetite came out, and it had a pretty startling effect on me because I was never into sports and never had a "thing" to call my own, and suddenly there it was. I wanted to get into music and play the guitar. Ironically, I've never owned a Les Paul.

My first discovery of offests was probably Nirvana, because you just didn't see them in metal in the late 80's. Hell, Slash rocking a Les Paul was sort of an anomaly in that era of pointy, Floyd Rose equipped nonsense. The first offset players that made me WANT one, however, were probably Robert Smith and Kevin Shields. They were making sounds that I wanted to make.

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Post by therizzla » Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:15 am

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Post by araT » Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:46 am

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+1 a thousand times over :?

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