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Location: Hiram, Georgia | At the tender age of 7, my Dad gave me a solid body strat/style, w/ black to lime/dark greenburst, single p/u, don't know the make, with heavy gauge Black Diamond, shaved style strings, guitar, still brings back memories of something exotic, back in '69. Can you relate? Let's hear it! |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Mine was a low cost rented classical 6 strings 4/4 at age 13, one year later my parents offered me a nice 1974 Miguel Gonzalez Abad classical guitar (made in Almeria, Spain) that i always have at home, then i discovered Marcel Dadi in year 1975 and switch to Ovation in year 1986. |
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Location: gods country..west virginia | my first was a beat to hell kingston 6 string flat top,my dads wifes dad gave it to me for my 8th birth day. i still got whats left of it in the attic...then at 16 i bought my first used-beat to hell ovation matrix..sweet memories from yesteryears. jason |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Hi Arnaud, In '74 I was 12, and I remember a local musicstore on Wendyhill Rd, Smyna, GA, USA had several rows of "plastic guitars" and there was also a steady stream of long hair types coming in with "old junk and leaving w/ new stuff and cash" never figured it out. Thing is everyone had a smile on their face after the transaction. My first "O" was a 1984 Collector, inspired by our Music Minister at church, had a Redbusrt Adamas II, I got it with my first bankloan in '85 for about $780.US w/ohsc |
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Location: Vermont USA | About 1967 I got a used Kay from a pawn shop in Boston. I traded that for a Hagstrom in 1968. After about a year of lessons I got into drugs and that was all I cared about where was my next high coming from. Asked Jesus into my life July 25, 1979 and now I play mostly in church. Someday when I get enough guts I'll play at an OFC jam. I would also like to play in the streets of Burlington, and not on the double yellow lines either.
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Location: gods country..west virginia | a bad accident in high school put a damper on my playing and singing for 6yrs,i just recently started playing again..bad head injury let to a addiction on pain pills. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | I found my first guitar in the loft. It was some £10 ($5) piece of nylon-string (quite literally) junk. I played that until I could actually play a little, and then I got a Yamaha dreadnaught thing for christmas one year.
Got into Ovations 3 years after that, and now it's 14 years since I first picked up a guitar and figured out which way round to hold it.
The Yamaha has gone to one of my friends now, and that original nylon string has all-but gone to seed. Certainly unplayable beyond 7th fret, and intonation goes around 4th, but it's my gateway in so it's still around.
Nice little trip down memory lane.
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Location: south east Michigan | My first was a Tesio electric that I bought from a friend for $15. I took it apart, did a perfectly awful paint job on it and basicly ruined it.
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | Hi Paulcc1 and Johnny Cash, it's an honor. I visited Rasputin's in Bulington a few short months before I committed my life to Jesus, in '83. A college town can be hard on a young man, far from home and from the Father. In "83 all I had was Jesus, in '84, KJV, in '85 I added a 1984 collector!
Just Keep playin' Johnny!!!
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BLESS YOU!!! |
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| Yahama FG180.Action like a squareneck dobro. |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | yeah, I had a yamaha acoustic, I quit playin' cause I couldn't mash the strings to form a D, can't play Neal Young if,you can't mash the E string!...? Southern Man E EEEE E EE EE E EEE ... EEE... E E E... |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | When I was about 9, living in Long Beach, CA, My dad picked up a Yamaha FG-something with 3 string on it at a yard sale. I dragged the thing around with me and played it with those 3 strings for about a year. Then the unthinkable happened ... one of the three strings broke. That ended my guitar playing gigs for about four years. |
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Location: East Tennessee | A $35 Kay archtop. A few months later I added one of those spring loaded magnetic pickups with a short cord, (which I would step on and yank out the pickup right in the middle of "Johnny B Goode"). Those were the good old days? :confused: |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | yeah, 12th fret, ...EEE.. EEEE...E E EE...E . . E... Southern Maaaan betttaaaahhh... EEE..EE... |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | $20 Gremen wideneck classical that I think my dad paid $100 for new for my 12th birthday. Three years later, I bought my first Ovation - 1869 Custom Legend in cherry burst. Still my favorite guitar.
I still have the classical, and it still looks brand-new and won't stay in tune. :D |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | $35 Univox ES 335 copy that I reset the neck and restrung with lighter strings so I could solo like a rock star. That was about 71 or 72. Never did learn to solo. Never even got an amp. Sold it so my wife and I could buy my Matrix for our wedding present. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | A $100.00 Yamaha classical, which I later traded for an equally cheap Lark 4-string bass. My first Ovation was the "Ol' Lady" (also known as "Gertrude"), the G-1111-4 that a Christian brother gave to my husband-to-be in 1978 and then got to be mine by way of "marital osmosis." She will always be my favorite guitar.
Karen
G-1111-4, CE868LX-4, Viper 1271 Natural, Tornado - maple, Fender American Strat, Steinberger Spirit 5-string bass, Galiano mandolin, Vega 5-string banjo, fiddle of uncertain antecedents and one Buffet clarinet
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Originally posted by philmax:
Hi Arnaud, In '74 I was 12, and I remember a local musicstore on Wendyhill Rd, Smyna, GA, USA had several rows of "plastic guitars" and there was also a steady stream of long hair types coming in with "old junk and leaving w/ new stuff and cash" never figured it out. Thing is everyone had a smile on their face after the transaction. My first "O" was a 1984 Collector, inspired by our Music Minister at church, had a Redbusrt Adamas II, I got it with my first bankloan in '85 for about $780.US w/ohsc Hi Philmax, amazing the same range of age we are together and same range of time we had our first "O" ! I remember i was a bit reluctant for "plastic" guitar concept but Marcel had so well promoted Ovations and Adamas guitars here in France that it turned finally an evidence to buy one. I had one Country Artist, presently have an Elite and an Adamas (preference for the Adamas), am waiting for another third and hope to buy one or two more ;)
But only SSB's, i don't feel well with mid or deep bowls :) |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | First guitar was some cheapo brand called a Checkmate for @ $10.00 in April, 1969. I swear it ha a 2" action! A month later I got a Yamaha FG 150, really nice guitar back then, and realized I didn't need to be able to bench-press 800 lbs to play barre chords. Used that for a couple of years. Got an Ovation Balladeer 111-4 in early 1971, my first really "serious" guitar. I still have that guitar (retrofitted a Fishman Natural II in it a couple of years ago) and still use it at gigs. A GREAT guitar! |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | I worked all summer of 1966 on the family farm, saved my money, and mail ordered a mahogany back and sides and spruce topped Kay with a case from the catalog (for about $60.00 if I remember correctly) and learned to play "Mr. Tamborine Man". It was a cool guitar, too. |
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Location: Vermont USA | I visited Rasputin's in Bulington a few short months before I committed my life to Jesus, in '83.Hey Philmax if you are ever up this way again let me know. You can stay with us.
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Location: PDX | My 1965 Guild M-20.
It was back in '69 that i took possession of it. A high school buddy of mine, drunk, fell off the amp he was sitting on and put a hole in the back of it. I bought it from him for $35 and glued it back together. It has had a couple of fret jobs and the neck reset in it's time. It's a great little guitar, probably because of its sentimental value.
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Location: Illinois | Epiphone SB145SB 'Texan'
Got her for Christmas from 'S.C.' Played intermittently for a few years with an undiagnosed neck problem (idiot teacher and salesman).
Picked up again a dozen years later. Diagnosed problem, fixed it. Played off and on with nylon strings, the switched to steels again... remembered why I switched to nylons. Re-repaired neck, Been my main axe for years. Still have her, always will. There is no guitar more beautiful than your first.
Here She Is:
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Location: N.J. | Univox Les Paul copy {sunburst,with an AUTHENTIC Gibson pickguard, ;) },A Ross distortion pedal and a Stage65 amp. Now thats Rock N Roll!!! :D :D |
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your first guitar?
