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Location: Avondale, AZ | My first one has long since decayed in a land fill somewhere. At least I hope that is what happened to it. I hate to think there is someone else suffering on it. Maybe it was added to a campfire (nice thought). |
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Location: nyc area | Montgemery wards bass...still owned by a childhood friend... |
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Location: vienna, west virginia | My first acoustic was a 3/4 size harmony that i bought from paper route money in 1971 and spent the first few hours with a wood rasp and file working the bridge to playable height. i guess the old gibson lap steel i got from my grandfather in 1970 was my first electric. you ever try to play black sabbath on a lap steel?
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1969 gibson les paul gold top deluxe
1975 ovation breadwinner(original owner)
2005 breedlove ac25sr+ (original owner)
???? gianinni craviola acoustic 12 string
1973 guild f48
1970 rb-250 gibson mastertone BANJO
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Location: NJ | ". . cliff
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'76 CustomBalladeer.
Bought it(NEW) for $350 (with a free HSC).
Still my primary guitar. . ."
Bought the guitar in '76 . . . . I was 20.
Years later, the top cracked . . then split.
In '96, my ex and my daughter took it to the Factory to have it repaired. They couldn't do the repair in time, so they replaced the entire top/bowl assembly so that the guitar was ready for my birthday . . . I was 40.
My original plan was to take the Pacemaker on the Cruuuz with me. I got it real cheep, and wouldn't be upset if it got wet/banged up.
I was re-stringing it this weekend for the trip and then decided against. It sounds nice & all, but with the way the neck is, it's got some minor tuning issues that I don't think I'll have the patience to deal with in a rum-induced stupor (plus I can't fingerpick it.)
Decided to take the CBalladeer instead.
30-year-old neck on 10-year-old body on a 50-year-old player.
Lotta birthdays there.
Figgered it'd be best if we all celebrated together . . .
(Besides, if the ship goes down - or I decide to become an illegal ExPat somewhere - I'll have "company" :-) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | A friend of mine just came back from a 10 day Catamaran sail around the Caribbean. A new port every day and the biggest concern every day was the rum supply. Bet your Cruuuz is going to be just as nice, Cliff. When do you take off? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | .... a week later, when asked what he did for his 50th birthday, Cliff responds, "What Birthday?" |
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Location: closely held secret | My first was a Harmony Stratotone hollowbody electric given to me for Christmas when I was 14. Cheap, but built like a tank. My brother threw in an Ampeg R2R in which the drive motor had died to use as an amp. The Ampeg eventually died from overuse (great distortion, tho!).
Still have the 'strat' in the closet almost 40 years later, minus frets and bridge. I hope to restore it someday. Played a lot of Ted Nugent and Pink Floyd on that old thing... |
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | The first guitar I ever touched is immortalized in song. (see http://tinyurl.com/nvl2j )I then bugged my mom to buy me a Harmony acoustic in 1961. A Model 150.
It traveled with me all through the Great Northwest till I could afford something better. I gave it to a nephew who might have it still.
Between then and now, I bet I've had over a hundred guitars. Some memorable. Some not. At some point, I decided that I'd rather buy them than sell them, so I now just look for keepers.
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | My first guitar was a uke. My parents bought it for me when I went into the hospital as a kid for and extended stay. |
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Location: SoCal | My 1st was a no-name acoustic that my grandfather had been planning to throw away [warped neck, etc.)
Did my best with it but to no avail. Even had a guitar store in Salem (Oregon) look at it - they laughed.
Went to Univ of Oregon in '66...in the Spring, pledged at Sigma Nu. Either that or ATO's (animals) and Sigma Nu had more golfers.
Note that the Sigma Nu house is a specific part of the tour for new freshmen as the scene for Animal House.
In the Spring of '67, at a toga party, the guitar (sans strings) met the same fate on the stairwell as Bluto's guitar.
Yes, filmed at Univ of Oregon. In fact, the scene where they hit the golf ball that knocked the guy off of the horse - that was my frosh dorm in the background. And, yes, the frat house was very close to the movie. Maybe why I joined the Marines half way through my Soph year?
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Charming guy with guitar:
I gave my love a cherry / That had no stone / I gave my love a chicken / That had no bones / I gave my love a story / That had no end / I gave my...
Bluto: [grabs the guitar and smashes it against the wall] Sorry. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | My first guitar was a yamaha classical I got from my Dad when I was in high school. This wasn't the ideal guitar for me then since I wanted to rock n roll. I bought a cheap hollow body electric with no name on the headstock from a department store. Not a terrible guitar I kept it for a few years. Within a year (1974) I got my 1112-4 which I still have. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Actually there's a picture of me with my first guitar, the stinkin Kay, in my gallery. I was standing in front of a picture of the Dave Clark Five with it......anyone remember them? |
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| I had a Yahama FG-180. A warped neck that was bad enough to use a slide. |
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Location: NJ | I had some POS made in holland guitar. it is still somewhere in my mother's basement and it is amazing that I even learned to play. My fingers would literally bleed while I tried to learn |
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Location: Spain | My first guitar was a no name spanish guitar given by my godfather .This was quickly replaced by a black thing apparentley made by a guitar company called Lorenzo it came from a catalogue and I know my folks worked real hard to pay for it.Its only when you play a good guitar after about 4 years that you realise its a miracle that you stuck at it....! |
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Location: Spain | Sorry if anybody tried to read that before I went back and corrected it {mucho cerveza esta noche} |
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| It is perfectly understandable that you drank a lot of beer tonight. :D
Me too. |
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Location: SoCal | My first guitar was an f-hole (my wife hates it when I use language like that) Sears POS. I still have it and there's a pic of it in one of my folders. |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Cc:
The first guitar I ever touched is immortalized in song. (see http://tinyurl.com/nvl2j )I then bugged my mom to buy me a Harmony acoustic in 1961. A Model 150.
It traveled with me all through the Great Northwest till I could afford something better. I gave it to a nephew who might have it still.
Between then and now, I bet I've had over a hundred guitars. Some memorable. Some not. At some point, I decided that I'd rather buy them than sell them, so I now just look for keepers.
Cc
Harmony. Maker of fully half of the guitars made during the 50s and 60s. Not the best guitar in the world, but as their ads read, "The best guitar you can buy for the money you'd spend". Silvertone was one of the many brand names made by Harmony. If it was bought from a catalog deparment store, Sears and Roebuck, Monkey Wards, Penney's, it was undoubtedly a Harmony. Sears owned the factory for many years.
If you had a guitar in your past, there's a 50/50 chance it was made by Harmony. Yup, I have one. A Harmony Stella. Paid $15 on a garage sale for her. It was over priced, but I'd never part with her. |
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | Hi Tommy,
Glad you liked the link!
My mom and Eddie (Edward) Ruscha's mom were best friends and we live with the Ruscha's for a couple of years. Of course Mason was always around since his parents lived a block away in O.K.C.. He let me fool around on the Stella any time I wanted and even taught me a couple of chords. I wish even a little of the talent that occupied that house had rubbed off on me. Eddie is world famous as an artist. His brother Paul has not only written symphonies, and an award winning photographer, but also owns a well known art gallery. Of course you know about Mason.
Me.. I was just the snotty nosed kid that hung around them whenever I could.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | My first was a Sears catalogue acoustic when I was 12. In my later teens I took great pleasure in smashing it to pieces.
First electric was one of those pawnshop specials from Japan. dozens of mojo switches all over the place, and a four inch speaker powered by eight penlight batteries. It would feedback when cranked.
I don't recall the sound of it at all, but somehow miss it anyway.
Can't remember what happened to it...(that kind of youth :rolleyes: )...but I may have traded and paid the difference for my Pan semi-solid body. Which lead directly to my love for the O T-head. (I was looking for a 335 at the time) |
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Location: East Tennessee | My first guitar was a Kay arch top. Real high action. I eventually added one of those spring loaded magnetic pickups that fastened between the end of the fretboard and the bridge. I would step on the cord and pull it lose at least once a day.
The first song I learned to play was "O Lonesome Me". I know that probably dates me but one thing I've learned as I have gotten older is you are as old,(or young), as you feel.
I still love to play and I still love to learn new songs.
Great post. :cool: :) |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | It is perfectly understandable that you drank a lot of beer tonight.
Me too.
I think Driftwood just said he had alot of beer not that he drank it. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by OldLiverJones:
I think Driftwood just said he had a lot of beer not that he drank it. Around here that translates as; "Hey, c'mon over!" |
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What was your very first guitar?
