What was your first Guitar?

[noisepunk]

A Supro Sahara...



Typical 60's era cheap guitar. High action, big strings. Played like crap, but the dumbass kid in me didn't know that could be fixed. Now that I know, I wouldn't mind having one for sentimental reasons, but the typical prices are between $1000-$1500. I ain't that damn sentimental! I found one at a guitar show about 15 years ago for $800 which I thought was crazy then. The bad thing is I found out the day after the show that someone who works with my son sold it to the dealer for $200! He said if he'd known, he'd have let me have it for $100!

I found a belmont, which is essentially the same guitar but with two pickups and a tremolo tailpiece, for $75 three years ago. I had to put some work into getting it playable, but it's been my main guitar since I fixed it- it certainly feels like a toy, but I have it setup to be extremely easy to play.

[hoddyman]

I first had a Mexican-made nylon-string. I learned the first-position chords on it, and that was the guitar I had in the fall of '65 when I saw a not-yet-famous Jerry Garcia play the chords to "Gloria" in a Menlo Park guitar store and recognized that they were chords I already knew, thus learning my first rock and roll song. Within a few months, I traded in the Mexican guitar for a Martin 00-17. I didn't go fully electric 'till '74, or so (with a beat-up Jazzmaster).

[cbrown]

'SessionPro' P-bass copy, still got it.

1st six-string was a borrowed Washburn Raven like this:

but in yellow:

The first six-string I owned was an Epiphone Supernova, still got it.

[Pacafeliz]

In 1993, before leaving Switzerland, my dad bought me this MIK Epi Les Paul.





...I played quite a lot of gigs with it, with my 1st band in Costa Rica.

but the pickups squealed SO much, the band HATED me because of it. i have a cassette recording of a gig in '96, which is all SQUEEEEEEAL!!!

Then, in houston in '94 or so i got myself a Peavey Predator for $99 which was stolen during shipping to Costa Rica... so i got myself the MIM Tele in the pic above. Never got along with it, really, but it was nice. Sold it.
And then, in '97, i went to Evan's Music City in Houston, and walked out with...



and


(i remember the muff was $49.99)

oh, good times.

I still have the LP, btw. in pieces...

[Ursa Minor]

Such an awesome pic.

Ah, the 90s.

[Pacafeliz]

YES!

[ATS7454]

A cheap strat clone pack from a cash generator shop in Castleford, West Yprkshire. Only had red, I wanted a white one so I painted it with household gloss. Last seen in a skip in East Leeds in 2008. Man, I wish I hadn't done that. Later bought a Yamaha RGX 420. It had a floyd rose, but I played it and played it but never restringing it. Still have the first set of strings it ever had, they are brown. I still have that somewhere, though it's fairly broken. Thought about fixing it but have absolutely no use for a Drop 6 guitar with a floyd rose!

[RuffiansFC]

Synsonics by gretsch my Grandma bought me out of a fingerhut catalogue. I quickly traded up to a Lotus LP copy.

I had the synsonics terminator. 4 lbs of pure pussy magnet.

[mgeek]

Piece of shite

Oh yeah... I had one of these too, only difference was the headstock and neck were black too.

MDF body, tuners that gave the impression the strings were gonna break as they neared pitch! £69 from the argos catalogue.

The worst thing is that someone from school offered me his dad's Burns Vista Sonic for fifteen quid around the same time and I turned it down! What do eleven year olds know anyway!