Post pics of the guitar that started it for you
- stig
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I have zero pictures of my own, but here's a Mustang exactly like the one that was my first name-brand (depending on your feelings towards Univox) in the late 70's:
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I'm pretty certain it would've been this...
Along with this...
...and this...
Along with this...
...and this...
You think you can't, you wish you could, I know you can, I wish you would. Slip inside this house as you pass by.
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stig wrote:I have zero pictures of my own, but here's a Mustang exactly like the one that was my first name-brand (depending on your feelings towards Univox) in the late 70's:
That is a sexy Mustang! BEAUTIFUL. Looks like chocolate.
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I used to have a poster / CD's with this on it and it really stood out to me.
On other guitars that combo would be horrific but it sort of works on some
On other guitars that combo would be horrific but it sort of works on some
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Or Poo, depending on your perspective. It had a popped fret and the sound was kind of thin for punk. But I was 15 and didn't know shit about shit. But I traded it toward an SG, which I ruined trying to refinish it, and traded even for my Emerald Green 1968 Guild Starfire.HNB wrote:stig wrote:I have zero pictures of my own, but here's a Mustang exactly like the one that was my first name-brand (depending on your feelings towards Univox) in the late 70's:
That is a sexy Mustang! BEAUTIFUL. Looks like chocolate.
So all's well that ends well! (coming up on my 30th anniversary with that Guild!)
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As lame as it seems now- this guitar was the first one that ever caught my attention in a serious way. Super theatrical goth-wankery aside, it was the first guitar I ever lusted after:
Kommunity FK's Mata with an EXII
Watched my VHS recording of it from '120 minutes' until the tape broke. Never did find any of their records to buy, but the guitarlust stayed with me, and is as yet unfulfilled. I still have never seen a XII in person, let alone played one.
Kommunity FK's Mata with an EXII
Watched my VHS recording of it from '120 minutes' until the tape broke. Never did find any of their records to buy, but the guitarlust stayed with me, and is as yet unfulfilled. I still have never seen a XII in person, let alone played one.
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for me, it must have been Keith Richards Les Paul Custom with this psychedelic graphic as seen in the rock'n'roll circus video:
…or "one plus one":
That's what lead me into guitar playing.
Into offsets I got (naturally) with Kurts Jaguar, but also the beautiful Starcaster of Johnny Greenwood:
…and the weird (back then) Hofners of Tocotronic:
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/5008669/Toc ... _Verstehen
Then a friend of mine traded his shoes in Poland for a Jolana Galaxis, a yellow one with black pickguard and I was completely nuts for this guitar ever since. He gave it to me last year and I'm really enjoing this thing. Here's a pic of a black one:
…or "one plus one":
That's what lead me into guitar playing.
Into offsets I got (naturally) with Kurts Jaguar, but also the beautiful Starcaster of Johnny Greenwood:
…and the weird (back then) Hofners of Tocotronic:
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/5008669/Toc ... _Verstehen
Then a friend of mine traded his shoes in Poland for a Jolana Galaxis, a yellow one with black pickguard and I was completely nuts for this guitar ever since. He gave it to me last year and I'm really enjoing this thing. Here's a pic of a black one:
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Owned dozens of Strats, never had any desire for an offset, never played one in my life... a new shop opened in my town and I went in to browse on the grand opening day, saw this hanging among the vintage guitars and fell in love. Bought it 3 days later, and have been an offset junkie ever since.
Check out my little collection at http://vintagefenders.weebly.com
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indeed, another reason for me, ... I discovered them - THIS ALBUM- when I was 15... and bought their entire back catalogue at Virgin or HMV when I visited London for the first time, aged 16 (back then their albums were not really available anywhere in central europe, that was before this thing called internet) ...PorkyPrimeCut wrote:I'm pretty certain it would've been this...
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What is this beautiful thing?DerRoy wrote:The shape of the body is practically dead on, and the scale is the same as the Jaguar. I got it for 70 Marks (with case), but that was 15 years ago.I_Only_Said wrote:More jag shaped then you would think at first glance, really cool guitar. How much did you get it for?DerRoy wrote:What made me want to play guitar, and an offset at that, was basically the record covers of any early-90's surf-bands playing Jazzies and Jaguars.
Learnt how to play (or rather, how to make heavily reverberated noises ) on a borrowed Hoyer/Höfner/H<somethingorother> until I found this one:
Horrible action, dead bridge pickup, frets above the 7th practically worn to the fretboard. But hey, it was dirt-cheap, came with the original case, and I loved the sound.
A very comfortable guitar to play, too: The poplar-body is super-lightweight. I got so used to it that after a while I thought electric guitars were always this light.
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The first guitar that I ever really obsessed over.
After that J Mascis is to blame for any and all of my offset interest.
After that J Mascis is to blame for any and all of my offset interest.
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Just checked out this band because of your post, they sound really cool. I like the guitar work.noisepunk wrote:
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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Rowland was the first guitarist I noticed with an offset guitar. I'm sure I'd seen images of Sonic Youth and their guitars before, but it took footage of The Birthday Party playing live to really open my eyes. Rowland often did this thing where he would point the end of his Jaguar directly out in front of him like a gun and then flick the end of it up in time with the music. It was SO cool and worked perfectly with the Jaguar's shape.Gothjuice wrote:Rowland S Howard was the first guy I saw with what I thought was, at the time, a less, "normal", looking guitar.
However, I was only interested in Jaguars until I started watching 'K-On!' and realised there were more of these bizarre looking guitars.
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A true love storyjoeybsyc wrote:Owned dozens of Strats, never had any desire for an offset, never played one in my life... a new shop opened in my town and I went in to browse on the grand opening day, saw this hanging among the vintage guitars and fell in love. Bought it 3 days later, and have been an offset junkie ever since.
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My first electric was an Epi SG inspired by Ian. That's an awesome photo. Looks like it is in the earlier years. Repeater era?
bdm wrote:The first guitar that I ever really obsessed over.
After that J Mascis is to blame for any and all of my offset interest.