CAn you Still Remember the Day you Bought your First Guitar?

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CAn You? After all you could just make it all up and noone of us would really know eh? Aaggggh you would't do that eh :D as that is cheating.

I can still remember that day: Went out in my dad's car, picked up my cousin and set off to the guy who had the guitar for sale. It was a serious musician, he had a lot of guitars, his house was a mess :D but sure he did love music....................

I had taken my cousin with me because he knew about guitars, so he could check and see everything was alright. The instrument I bought was a cheap Japanese, late 70s acoustic. It is called "Rokkoman" which apparently means "Joker" heh that will suit me................ :D :)

The guitar itself is fine, nothing special and I still have it. Over the years it has had a fretdress and it plays fine. Came with a hardcase as well, so really was a good deal, and the guitar has been a true friend for a long time.

The actual day itself must have been sometime in June 1986, it was a sunny day too. I had just done my exams and was looking forward to the holidays, and the guitar would be one of my new friends. Can't think of a better way to start your hols.............

Where I was born, there is water all around us, so I took the guitar often to the seaside, just to play...........could not play well at that time....still can't :D :D ...............but that did not matter, I really enjoyed what I could do, and liked the sounds. I "knew" music, since I had been playing organ since 9 and at the time I got into guitars I was about 19 so that was a bonus as I could transfer what I knew from the organ to the guitar. Well of course that took some time, but really it was fun from day one ;)


The weeks before I got hold of the guitar I had borrowed my cousins nylon string, just to learn a few chords, so at least I would be a little familiar at the time I got hold of my own.

I am sure this is nothing new, all of you must have similar things to tell, so why not let us know how your first day was....................

Eddie :)
 
The first guitar that "I" bought was back around 1972. I had been drooling over a 1955 Martin 000-18 hanging in the local music store (Town & Country Music in Fenton, Mo) for months. I saved up all my cash from a job at a truck stop I had at the time, went in a plopped down $150 cash and walked out with it. I still have it. It's better now than it was when I bought it.
 
My buddies dad had a Fender Precision bass and a Peavy tube amp. Man that was cool goofing around in his basement listening to Saga, and playing along to U2's "Party Girl" He became a bass player and never even had to buy a bass. THAT would have been cool - start with the best.

They also had a cheap 6 string acoustic (El Degas?) that I learned to chord on. I went on to eye a $125 'Lero' tele copy in the window of the crappy small town music store. I was around 14 years old. My mom bought it for me, and promised to pay for some lessons if I stuck to it. I mostly learned to play on that guitar (Sunday Bloody Sunday over and over again...) The guitar sucked, so I began the Stratocaster guitar upgrade routine - first a Washburn, then a Jap Squier and eventually US Strat. Stuck with that one. If I remember right, I eventually sold those guitars one after another, to a guy who was a few years behind me in his lessons/playing. Im amazed how foggy things get in my memory about those years. Likely because they coincided with my investigation of alcohol and drugs...
 
First guitar I ever bought was out of the Sears catalogue. Kept it for about a month and then returned it for a full refund. Took the money and some more that I had saved up and went to the "real" music store and got a Peavey T-15. It's all been downhill from there.

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Probably around 1964. Wallach's Music City in Lakewood California. I was too young to drive but I'm sure it was my mom who took me. It was a Harmony "F" hole acoustic. Life didn't get any better that year. I think back to that music store and can still see all the early and min 60's equipment and guitars.
 
Montreal around 1964. Went with parents to a music store and came out with a Hofner arch top acoustic. Wish I still had it.
 
I beleive it was 85 or 86

It was the first guitar I bought with my own money. I had other junk ones before that were given to me, but I don't count those.

My first was a Gibson SG Standard, Tobacco Burst finish w/ Zebra black & creme humbuckers. I worked an entire summer at Pathmark pushing carts to save money for that guitar and a moped.

I traded the guitar in 89 or 90 for a new Charvel when big hair metal was becoming popular. Bad decision.

Yes, I regret that day and miss that guitar still. I also miss my first car, a 1971 Mustang Fastback.

I should have put the guitar in the trunk and shrink wrapped the entire car and put it in storage.
 
My dad took me to the pawn shop and I picked up an Washburn Oscar Schmidt. I didn't know anything about it, I just wanted an acoustic. I don't remember exactly when that was, but I remember getting rid of it and then seeing Will Sasso play one on Mad TV.
 
gvarko said:
I traded the guitar in 89 or 90 for a new Charvel when big hair metal was becoming popular. Bad decision.
I can relate to that. It was around 1974 and I wanted to play rock & roll but only had the Martin and a new Guild 12 string acoustic. I traded the Guild for an Ampeg B-42X amp. What was I thinking????
 
OK, that's good but,

Track Rat said:
I traded the Guild for an Ampeg B-42X amp. What was I thinking????

I traded my Mustang for a Mazda B2200 pickup, WTF was I thinking?????
 
But what happened to the moped? hehehe

I remember the day. April of 1989. I was 13, and in 7th grade. My dad took me to the local music shop and bought me a Kay knockoff of a Les Paul, 3/4 scale. Oh and a Gorilla amp that still gives me nightmares when I think of its distortion. My friends and I still laugh about the tone of that amp. The guitar was mysteriously stolen from my home less than a year later...you know how you always have suspicions about who dunnit but you just never really know for sure.
 
You had to ask...

Tadpui said:
But what happened to the moped?

It was a really cool (for a moped) Batavus model. It had the tank on top and was the same cream color as the one in this picture. I put Harley stickers on the tank and thought I was the man..

I remember when I first got it, there were a few dents in the tank. I read somewhere that if you fill the tank with water and put it in the freezer the dents would pop out.

Well I left it in the freezer for a few days and it never froze solid enought to pop the dents out. The downside is everything in our freezer tasted like gas. I remember eating eggos before school and belching gas until lunchtime. I thought my mom was going to kill me for that one...

Stupid teenage decisions..
 

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Must have been around this time of year, in 2001. I was taking lessons at a local music store, and I don't remeber how, or why I traded in the rental and baught (read:parents bought) it. It was a Washburn WR-150 in black, HSS, black pickups, ebony fretboard, black everything. It came with a 13W Randall amp that had the worst distortion I've ever heard, much like the above tail of crappy practice amps. I went home, plugged it and found the only way to get distortion was to select the humbucker, and crank the gain. Haven't really moved the 5 way selector since, I'm not a fan of single coils. After I bought it I went skateboarding and broke my arm. I didn't touch the guitar for 4 years until this August.

Where is that guitar today? In my hands as I write this topic.
 
October, 1973.

It finally arrived November 74.

Lefty SG.

First Martin (D-35 lefty) was ordered December 76, delivered May 77.

Bought those first two at Whittier Music on Wooley Bully in east Whittier, CA.

D-45L Custom ordered 4/1/85. Delivered 8/1/85. Fret House, Covina, CA.
 
This is like asking if I can remember my first piece of ass. :D

Actually I traded a couple joints for a POS nylon stringer.

I should have kept the joints, would have made my life less complicated. :eek:
 
3 or 4 years ago, i worked allllllll fuckin summer to save up 300 bucks and bought the ibanez guitar starter pack. Haha, it sucked, so i got an acoustic as well and just played that like crazy. Its just now that im getting back into electric and its great. i stil play my hondo clasical everyday haha
 
My first guitar was bought for me by my ex-wife. I had just turned 22 and she had seen a video that my mother had (on beta) of my defunct band with me playing bass. Not knowing the difference, she went out and bought me a Peavey Tracer and a Peavey Audtion Chorus amp. I didn't have the heart to tell her I knew nothing about guitars, so I learned to play it. I found out later that she had spent almost $1000 from her savings to get me the damn thing.

I still have it too, although I divorced her ass in '96.


The first guitar I bought was my ESP B-205 bass. Now there is an instrument I love...
 
gvarko said:
It was a really cool (for a moped) Batavus model.

Stupid teenage decisions..


Nice moped, those must have been the days eh?

Batavus is a Dutch brand, are you from the Netherlands as I cannot imagine that Batavus mopeds were exported to other countries, but then I could be soo wrong eh?

Eddie :)
 
So now we would like to know

therage! said:
This is like asking if I can remember my first piece of ass. :

So what was she like? a true blond, a redhaired pussy or a tall, longlegged brunette? :D

Eddie :)
 

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