First guitars

foll · Post by **foll** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:01 am

great first guitar and pedal

Kurbis wrote:I saved up for 8 months and I bought this.
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CIJ 65' (pretty sure, no contour) Mustang.

And my first pedal was an NYC Big Muff.

I knew what I wanted.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:00 am

Joey wrote:My first bass was a Yamaha. I smashed it last night, the cops weren't so amused

Huh? Details pls?

poly800rock · Post by **poly800rock** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:43 am

awesome thread, literally just lugged this back from my parents house to tune it up.

ibanez ex my dad got me in 7th grade for $150 from a farmers market. loved this guitar for so long.

poly800rock · Post by **poly800rock** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:45 am

[quote="gaybear"]My first guitar was a silvertone classical. i loved it. still have it, but the intonation is fucked.
my first electric was a peavey t-15. it took me awhile to get used to strings on an electric after having played only classical, but it was a blast.
It was only 125$ brand new with the nifty hardshell case
the only problem with these guitars is their bridge.
mine eventually got stolen from a house party my then-band played. =[

it's me and my t15 in the top left corner of this pic

[/quote

man i haven't seen mutant pop records in a LONG LONG time!

ProcessedMeatMan · Post by **ProcessedMeatMan** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:04 am

My first bass was an O'Hagan "shark" bass. My mom got it for $150 at a pawn shop. I sold it for $100 on Ebay about 10 years ago because I needed money (damn you college!), but now I wish I had it back

This is the only picture I have of it. That's not me though, a friend of mine is playing it.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:41 am

My first guitar was a total partscaster that my brother built for me out of bits lying around his bedroom. He'd ended up with a bunch of crappy strat/metal guitars that friends had bought in the 80s that they never quite bothered to learn to play, and when they eventually broke down they made their way to him to be "fixed", which meant lying forever untouched in what had quickly become more of a cheap guitar graveyard than a bedroom. So he took a neck off some Strat copy (exact headstock copy, but in black with white writing) and stuck it on a strat body with an odd, cheap floyd trem, EMG-lookalike HSS pickups and red and black crackle finish (ugh) with all the locking bits removed... It was actually surprisingly good!

Anyway, this was in the days well before digital cameras so I have no pics of it at all, which is a shame. It might be lying around in the loft somewhere so I might have a trip up there to find it one day. My own first guitar that I bought for myself for the princely sum of Â£99 in 2000 was a reissue Danelectro U2 in black:

There it is with the Batwing. I'd saved up over Â£150 from my weekend cleaning job and hadn't expected to get a guitar for so little money. So I also bought a Digitech multi-FX unit, an RP300 I think which had two pedals and an expression pedal, too. It was brilliant. Everybody else in college had Ibanez RGs, seven strings or rather expensive Epiphone Les Pauls whereas I had my nasty-sounding little Danelectro with its hollow masonite body. It's a very important guitar to me. The fact it's there with the Batwing is important because if I were to somehow only end up with two guitars it would be those two.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:37 pm

poly800rock wrote:awesome thread, literally just lugged this back from my parents house to tune it up.

ibanez ex my dad got me in 7th grade for $150 from a farmers market. loved this guitar for so long.

Do like, in a kind of I-know-I-shouldn't but I do way

eric wrote:My own first guitar that I bought for myself for the princely sum of Â£99 in 2000 was a reissue Danelectro U2 in black

I remeber seeing them new in a shop in Norwich (Sound Control?) around then. Sounds like a great deal. Still got it?

jumbledupthinking · Post by **jumbledupthinking** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:48 pm

My first electric guitar set-up was like this (have had to hoist pics off the interwebs, as all this stuff is either long-gone or missing-in-action) :

"Top Twenty" Guitar (Fact of the Day - hardcore Cure fans allegedly go nuts for these, as Robert Smith famously put one of the pickups from this guitar into the middle position of his Jazzmaster after he upgraded guitars)

into:

The pedal that gives "tone for days" (providing your idea of tone is the sound of a crack addled man punching an asthmatic cat in an alley)....the inimitable Boss DS-1

into:

Haggard-ass Solid State practise amp made by a company called Satellite. Having done some Googling, I can find reference to guitars that they made (Japanese) in the '70s, but nothing about their amps (although there's now a newer amp company called Satellite doing the rounds).

Needless to say, my set-up in the early 90s was ghetto as fuck, but I loved it!

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:20 pm

poly800rock wrote:
gaybear wrote:My first guitar was a silvertone classical. i loved it. still have it, but the intonation is fucked.
my first electric was a peavey t-15. it took me awhile to get used to strings on an electric after having played only classical, but it was a blast.
It was only 125$ brand new with the nifty hardshell case
the only problem with these guitars is their bridge.
mine eventually got stolen from a house party my then-band played. =[

it's me and my t15 in the top left corner of this pic

man i haven't seen mutant pop records in a LONG LONG time!

haha, YAY!

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:20 pm

nyck wrote:Mine was the unavoidable squier strat pack.

I think I took this photo for a show your strat thread a while back. It was once red and the trem arm is still broken off in the block.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:32 pm

damn, goots. that's so good looking.

(btw, i'm sending that black cover out soon, busy as a two peckered goat, atm.)

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:50 pm

Thanks man/no worries. The brostang is such a great player.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 6:51 pm

whoa, forgot

hopefully i will be taking my peavey combo to mellowlogic soon, could i stop by and do an riff on the ol' girl?

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:08 pm

sure, pm me about when you're thinking you'll be in town.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:44 am

ekwatts wrote:

There is a sunburst one with maple fretboard on the eBay that I want no part of.

rps-10 · Post by **rps-10** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:03 am

BacchusPaul wrote:
I bought one for fifteen quid about six years ago. I think the bodies are made of pink wafers.

LOL exactly right

tea spat all over work PC now.

1st pedal was bought by my mum (from the catalogue) as a birthday presant I think..

Rocktek Phaser -- I wanted a Flanger though

1st amp was a Sound City 10 watt, which I think I still ahve hidden in the attic somewhere. Again as a Chrimbo presant but I had to pay for it!! my Mum knew I wanted it so got it from the catalogue to save me the hassell!!

treehousecollections · Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:55 pm

Hey Nyck, I never saw a fretless guitar,except for a cello if you hold it wrong. I wonder if your fretless wonder would have sounded like an electric Cello, Ha. The things we did. I had to paint my Rickenbacker gold pick guard black. I am sure glad I didn't do the truss rod cover too.

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:39 pm

jumbledupthinking wrote: The pedal that gives "tone for days" (providing your idea of tone is the sound of a crack addled man punching an asthmatic cat in an alley)....the inimitable Boss DS-1

LOL! I also hate that pedal.

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:27 pm

First guitar - Epiphone Les Paul Special II

Super cheap, but good fun at the time. A friend had one too. Within the first few months, one of the pickups just fell out.

Mine's been sitting in a cupboard for years.