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03-18-2014, 01:23 PM
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The Gibson Manhattan Midnight Blue Les Paul Studio Professional Plus on the right in the picture below was my first electric. Perfectly matched my Gibson Les Paul Double Cut bass so it had to be mine.
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03-18-2014, 03:09 PM
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03-19-2014, 06:44 AM
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Got this one brand new in 1964:
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03-19-2014, 07:16 AM
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I had a '97 Squier fat strat as my first electric guitar, from the era when Squiers were Mexican-made alongside the standard series. The neck had flamed maple (purely accidental, I'm sure) and a rosewood board. Way too nice a neck to leave languishing on a squier.
In 2008, I took the neck off that guitar, refinished the headstock in Olympic white, stuck a Jazzmaster decal and some locking Klusons on it, and built it into a Warmoth parts Jazzmaster with pickups by Pete Biltoft (Vintage Vibes guitars). So it got a second lease on life, and I get a kick out of the fact that my favourite electric guitar feels like my first electric guitar, even though they look and sound nothing alike.
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03-19-2014, 01:54 PM
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03-20-2014, 02:53 PM
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03-20-2014, 09:25 PM
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My first electric guitar was a Japanese-made Squier "JV" Stratocaster that I won in a performance competition when I was a college freshman. I worked my way through college with it. It isn't something I would have bought at the time. I was an acoustic snob and wasn't in to electric music. When I graduated from college and no longer needed to play in a cover band to keep a roof over my head, my tummy filled, and the bills paid, I sold it with little regret.
I have a better appreciation for electric guitars now than I did in my teens and twenties, but that came about when I was forty and faced with continuing to not play at all due to arthritis and hand injuries or swallow my acoustic-snob pride and play a Telecaster that I could eek acoustic-like tones out of. That Telecaster led to other electric guitars..... Now, with the benefit of hindsight, I kinda wish I had kept that old Squier "JV" Strat... It was a pretty darn good instrument... And the price I got it for really couldn't be beat!
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#56
04-02-2014, 11:31 PM
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1968 (new) Cameo Deluxe Bass with a Checkmate amp. Granma bought it for me at the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston for my 8th birthday. My God am I really that old. Lol
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04-03-2014, 04:55 AM
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04-03-2014, 05:55 AM
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My first electric was a Lafayette solid body...cost $45.00. That replaced my Stella acoustic with the super high action. All of my first instruments (in the early 60's) were great as I had to work so hard to get a good tone out of them...so later... When I got my first good guitar (a used Jazzmaster)...I felt like a rock star...I could play so much better. There is something to be said for those old cheap relics.......(Wish I still had the Jazzmaster).
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04-03-2014, 10:45 AM
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My first was this 1971 Toyota Hollowbody. I have only seen 2 others like it in the last 40 years.
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-- Joe -- Martin: '12 GPCPA4 RW Ovation: '06 Elite-T 1868T; '79 Glen Campbell Artist 1627; '95 Balladeer 1751 Fender: '69 Mustang Competition; '91 Stratocaster Plus; '11 Telecaster Standard Gibson: '11 Les Paul Studio Deluxe 60s Epiphone: '11 ES 339 Pro PRS: '07 CE22; '03 Santana SE; '12 Tremonti SE Bradley: '77 Les Paul Custom Squier: '99 Precision Bass
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04-03-2014, 12:24 PM
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My first electric (not acoustic/electric) was a Fender American Deluxe Strat in sunburst with rosewood fretboard, vintage noiseless pups. Its gone now but no worries.
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