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Old 03-15-2014, 07:40 AM
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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?
No Dru, I was not playing at that time. My closest encounter with a musical instrument before then was listening to my uncle play his old Gibson banjo and another play his fiddle.

I remember that those amplifiers in the case came with schematics. A distant relative on my mom's side was into electronics and borrowed the schematic. About a month later he gave it back to mom and played on his newly built amplifier.

The memories are great from the childhood days and pretending to be all of the musical stars of the day
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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.


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Bob, what a beautiful Les Paul. I have one that looks nearly identical, a 1999 Standard Plus LTD, except mine has zebra pickups and no pickguard. Do you still play it much?
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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.


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Sweet looking Les Paul Bob!!
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Bob, what a beautiful Les Paul. I have one that looks nearly identical, a 1999 Standard Plus LTD, except mine has zebra pickups and no pickguard. Do you still play it much?
Thanks for your kind words. I started out not liking the finish (I wanted a gold top) but ended up loving it! I still play it. It weighs a fair amount so I don't like slinging it solely for a long gig. It has a really cool bridge pickup sound that just FITS when recording so I use it in the studio pretty often.

Note the wide strap and cheap Univox case that protects it better than the Gibson one...

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A Washburn 335 copy i bought at 1989. Weights a tone but the fretboard is great and the guitar itself was very responsive to whatever pickups i used.
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My first was a Squier Stratocaster.

That started tweaking and interest for better tuning, different tones etc... I'd like to think lots of buying and selling would not have happened if I started out with a premium guitar but am sure that would be wrong.

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'76 Aspen Strat copy just like this one - 149.00 and it was a pretty darn nice guitar!

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Some kind of 2 PU solid body from Sears or Eaton's probably obtained in 1970 and cost about $25 new and delivered to my door offa the back of a 5 ton. I sold it for $27 a year later but the brother of the guy who bought it told me later that I would have got $30 if I'd held out...lol

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About 10 years later a guy loaned me a late 50s LP Gold Top with P90s for a couple of weeks and said I could have it for $1,200. That guitar roared and I should have bought it but I didn't have the cash at the time.
Similar situation here; early '60's,,my first electric guitar was ordered from the Sears catalogue. As I recall, it had at least two pick-ups, and looked like a Strat. I think it cost $29.95 The name SilverTone comes to mind, but that may be wrong.

I don't recall ever playing the instrument, because the action was so high that I could wrap my hand around the neck,,,,UNDER the strings.
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'76 Aspen Strat copy just like this one - 149.00 and it was a pretty darn nice guitar!

Some of those lawsuit-era Japanese guitars were incredible instruments for the money - small wonder the American companies (other than Guild and Rickenbacker) got nervous, given the garbage they were foisting off on the public back then. I'm just sorry I didn't grab an Ibanez korina, Johnny Smith, and acoustic L-5C/Super 400C copy or two - not to mention a Univox "Randy Bachman" triple-bucker Strat - while the getting was good...
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Wow, some beautiful guitars and geek looks(which I only say because I am pretty sure it would be difficult to locate any pictures of me during that era ).

My first was an American Strat, and we did not bond. I do love my Collings, but I find myself playing my acoustics most of the time. Which I am about to do....
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Old 03-16-2014, 06:05 AM
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No Dru, I was not playing at that time. My closest encounter with a musical instrument before then was listening to my uncle play his old Gibson banjo and another play his fiddle.

I remember that those amplifiers in the case came with schematics. A distant relative on my mom's side was into electronics and borrowed the schematic. About a month later he gave it back to mom and played on his newly built amplifier.

The memories are great from the childhood days and pretending to be all of the musical stars of the day
Yep, those early musical/guitar memories are great. I still remember leaving high school at noon to go jam with my friends at his house. That and the cruising after practice on Fri/Sat nights


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Thanks for your kind words. I started out not liking the finish (I wanted a gold top) but ended up loving it! I still play it. It weighs a fair amount so I don't like slinging it solely for a long gig. It has a really cool bridge pickup sound that just FITS when recording so I use it in the studio pretty often.
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Note the wide strap and cheap Univox case that protects it better than the Gibson one...

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Bob, not only do we have a nearly identical Les Paul, same goes with the strap. I have a big (3" I believe, definitely not smaller) leather strap myself. It was my sister's back in the '80s and I gigged with it many times.
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Aria Pro II. Active electronics and the thing had awesome Strat neck pick up tones. I still have it, but it's not playable
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Gretsch 6117 Double Annie w/flannel-lined silver HSC, bought new in May '64 from Silver & Horland on Park Row in NYC along with a top-panel Ampeg Rocket - paid $250 for the whole setup. Still have both, the usual Gretsch binding issues placed the guitar in semi-retirement for now; brought the amp to Dennis Kager a couple years back for a checkup, turns out it was one of the first ones he worked on when he came to Ampeg in 1964 - didn't need a thing, guys in the shop thought it was a reissue until Dennis set them straight...



That's got to be one of my all-time favorite songs - love the guitar solo at the end, but that alto sax hook gives me the chills to this day...
It still gives me chills too. I had a day job as a laboratory tech in a hospital, and a night job as a studio musician. As I'm walking down the halls of the hospital I hear someone playing the opening sax lick to "Baker Street", I walk in the room and there's a guy with red hair down to his belt wailing on his sax. His name was Raphael Ravenscroft, we hit it off, and he invited me to meet Gerry as soon as he got out of the hospital. Those were tremendous sessions!! Even though I had never heard the song, I had to be in that session!
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My first electric guitar came courtesy of my dear departed mom. It was a new '65 Epiphone Casino. From what I've read, I had mine before John and George, but not Paul.

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