What was your first Electic Guitar?

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by sweiss

A Kay Value Leader.

I bought it from a friend for $3.00...which was about $2.00 too much. It was a really horrid guitar to play, and ugly to boot...but I learned my first few chords on it.

I don't remember what happened to it, but it deserved whatever it got.

LOL, it's called "Value Leader" for a reason, it belongs in the dollar store.

[TjthePhD]

Mine was a Gibson SG Special that someone had modified, purchased used in 1981. The bridge pickup was a Duncan, no idea what model. The top was brown stain, which I assume was original. Also, the pickup selector had been modified to a 3-way blade, for no known reason.

It was an easy player, fun to learn on, cheap, and sounded good to me through the crap amp I had.

I replaced it with this Epiphone Sheraton I in a pic posted here many times before (purchased in 1982, only sold in 1998 when I got my first Les Paul):

[barefooter]

Let me see if this picture will come through. This goes way.... back for many here who were not even born at this time... Somewhere around 1964 or 1965, I think 65. This is not mine, but identical to the first electric I ever had. This was a Christmas gift.

[catdaddy]

The above Silvertone guitar with unique amp/case posted by barefooter was also my first electric circa 1965. I still have the guitar but sadly the amp is long gone.

[j3ffr0]

It was an S. D. Curlee double cut away electric. It wasn't a very good guitar. Within 3-6 months I traded it in for a Martin E-18, which is a very good guitar. I still have that one to this day, and it gets quite a bit of play -- more than most of my electrics.

[Bob Womack]

No-name, four pickup, blood drawing Japanese monster (Godzilla?) I bought from a pawn shop in about 1971. That's me first bandmate, Bill, on the right there.

Bob

[franchelB]

I found, and bought a '74 Les Paul Deluxe in a pawn shop for $300 back in 1986. It was, what other guitar players would say, a "player": upgraded tuners, modded tone controls, etc.

Yep, I still have it.

[perttime]

I still have it.

[SLJ710]

first electric was also a two pickup Kent, purchased at a dept store in flushing Queens around 1964.

[Mooh]

My first electric was a Kent. I bought it from a friend's brother for $25 (if I remember correctly) in 1973. I had already bought my first amp, a Harmony tube amp, for 25 cents, at a church rummage sale. Paper route money.

The Kent was a piece of crap in a lot of ways, but the action was great, and playability way better than the Suzuki acoustic I was learning on. It became a project guitar once I got a better Yamaha LP style guitar. I still have a few parts from it, but the body and neck were trashed after too many experiments.

[PointBlank]

My first guitar ever was an electric guitar. A Cort Stratocaster copy. Black with white pickguard and maple neck, yes I liked Clapton.

it was a ok cheap guitar i had for many years. The salesman guitar dude back in 1982 actually made it sound pretty good at the store. I don't think I ever made it sound that good the whole time i was learning on it. My next guitar was a 12-string acoustic.

[Dru Edwards]

Originally Posted by barefooter

Let me see if this picture will come through. This goes way.... back for many here who were not even born at this time... Somewhere around 1964 or 1965, I think 65. This is not mine, but identical to the first electric I ever had. This was a Christmas gift.

<<snippet pic>>

Tom, great pic. A Christmas gift, just like my first guitar. I was playing my sister's guitar before that so I knew I would stick with playing. Were you already playing when you got that first guitar or did you learn on it?

[brad4d8]

It was a Hagstrom, I think Hagstrom II. Bought from a classmate in '65. Traded about two years later for a Supro resonator that got stolen from my music partner's apartment on the lower East Side around '69 or '70. Wouldn't mind having the Supro back.

[Bob Womack]

Originally Posted by franchelB

I found, and bought a '74 Les Paul Deluxe in a pawn shop for $300 back in 1986. It was, what other guitar players would say, a "player": upgraded tuners, modded tone controls, etc.
Yep, I still have it.

Good buy!

I bought my first serious electric, a Kalamazoo-built, "small-script" Gibson Les Paul Standard, in 1977 for $425. It is and was dead stock and I still have it.


Bob

[s2y]

A GTX bolt-on Les Paul copy. Very poorly planed fingerboard and fret work. I think it's responsible for me going handmade to try to make sure it doesn't have tons of bad flaws.