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Your First Guitar!

Postby Hank2k » Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:14 am

Hi All

Following on from a post on here about first drum kit i thought it would be cool to see members first guitars?

Mine was one of these

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Came from Argos in about 1996, no trem etc really slim body. Came with a little headphone amp etc. Sadly i sold it to a school friend and it got messed around with. Not sure where it ended up.

Then in 1997 i upgraded to what i thought was a Fender! But it was actually a Squier Strat really basic model in red of course. £129 brand new from a shop in Walthamstow. Still got it at my parents place currently in bits from when i messed around with it.

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We all had to start somewhere......
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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby drakula63 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:30 am

Funnily enough, my brother actually had a Burns guitar - this is about 1980/1981. I have no idea which model it was. It was in pretty bad condition and I remember him stripping it down, repainting it, sorting out the pickups and electrics, etc. I remember it so clearly as it had one of those wide, flat tremolo arm/vibrato bars that I had only ever seen on the Shads' Burns Marvins. I am hoping that there might be some photos of it lying around somewhere...
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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby TimRyland » Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:49 pm

My first guitar was a Futurama from a local second-hand shop. A few months after buying it, I saw Argent on OGWT. I thought Russ Ballards Strat looked ultra cool with the holes in it, so took a jigsaw to mine. It stayed like that for a year until I saw Andy Powell's Flying V, so off came the neck and down the local timber merchants for some wood and I made myself one. I still have some pictures of it somewhere, along with homemade fuzz and wah pedals.
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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby neil2726 » Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:10 pm

Futurama II Deluxe for me in blue with Perspex front and cloth back!
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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby dave robinson » Sat Oct 28, 2017 1:49 am

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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby nivramarvin » Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:59 am

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My Hoyer (about 1963) which I unfortunately sold at that time (I was young and needed the money).
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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby Uncle Fiesta » Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:47 pm

My first guitar was a Rosetti Airstream 2, which I got from my elder brother for a nominal price.

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When he bought it, it was, in his words 'running black' - i.e., someone had painted it, then stood it up against a wall! He resprayed it red, but while I had it, it was every colour under the sun. It went through white, blue, metallic green and several others I now forget, and by the time the dustman got it, it was a sort of Morris Marina beige.

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The photos are not of mine, as it predated my interest in photography. This one appeared on eBay a year or so ago.

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I replaced it with a Zenta, a very poor copy of a Strat. I bought it from my Mum's Kays catalogue - £72.50 at £2 a week!

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Again these photos are from eBay not of my actual guitar. Mine had a slightly different tremolo and white Strat-type knobs. (I've still got them! I'd swapped them for the black ones on a little amplifier I had, which I scrapped a couple of years back.) And the colour was even worse than this, a sort of red-to-black burst.

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The trem was useless and the selector switch was a Les Paul-type 3-way toggle, which switched between the bridge pickup and the other two, so at least you could have all three on if you wanted.

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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby Uncle Fiesta » Sat Oct 28, 2017 12:50 pm

Reached the 6 photo limit so here's the last one. It's a photo my girlfriend took of me with the Zenta in my first band in 1975.

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I'm pleased to say I'm still in touch with the other two. The band was called ARC - wonder where we got that name from?
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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby drakula63 » Sat Oct 28, 2017 2:42 pm

...Could have been worse. George Cowley's car in The Professionals had the number plate MOO 229R...
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Re: Your First Guitar!

Postby Uncle Fiesta » Sat Oct 28, 2017 6:04 pm

As a more recent girlfriend pointed out, 657B would have been a VERY silly name for a band ...
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