What Was Your Very First Guitar And What year Was It

It was one of these godawful things, a "Global" sort-of-SG-copy, and the year was 1976:

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An utter POS, but luckily it wasn't too long after this that I got my first real guitar (a '77 LPC) so I only had to play the thing for a little over a year.
 
I got my first guitar in 1966, after two years of begging. It was a toy, really, a vacuum molded blue plastic thing with nylon strings tuned with plastic friction pegs. It came with a D-cell powered amplifier that has carbon button mic that attached to the guitar with suction cups. My dad presented this rig to me, cardboard-backed and shrink wrapped, and said, “Learn to play on this, and we’ll see about a better one.”

I figured out how to rough up the pegs to hold it in tune and figured out my first Cowboy chords on that crappy GSO. So then I got to move up to a Norma acoustic, which was almost worse. Mile high action. In there somewhere, I saved up and bought a blue Tiesco four-pickup Strat-shaped thing, and took it apart to paint it white. Bad mistake.
 
acoustic, which was almost worse. Mile high action.
That is an issue of course with many a cheaper acoustic and IMO prevents some people from continuing with guitar. I guess I realized this at 15 and begged the parents NOT to get an acoustic. I learned chords etc for 4 months on my uncle's old Supro Oazrk cutaway until they got me the Goya. Goya thin strings, light, thin neck... I think it was the perfect learning guitar.
 
A long time ago (when the earth was green) at 14 y/o I found an absolutely gorgeous banjo in my fathers' clothes closet.
I hauled it out, cleaned it up, tuned it (my dog has fleas) and tried playing it for a week or so.
I was intrigued enough by this stringed instrument to beg my dad to trade it in for a guitar, and he said yes!
We went down to the local mom and pop shop and got a straight up trade for a beautiful Hofner acoustic. This was in 1970.
Loved that thing, but sadly I no longer have it.
 
Technically, this would probably actually be my first, given to me by my folks after watching the Beatles debut on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Tiger guitar by Emenee.

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It came in a cardboard tiger-striped case. My friend (who coincidentally was named Paul) would come over, and we'd put on the Beatles first album (usually I Saw Her Standing There or I Want To Hold Your Hand).

I'd "play" the guitar and he would "play" the case. :LOL:

(We were really stupid.)
 
Great thread!

In spite of the fact that playing drums was my main interest throughout junior and high school years (Drum Major and all of that nonsense), I also took interest in my Dad's Silvertone electric guitar when I was 13 years old. I asked him to teach me.
He said, "No, nobody taught me how to play guitar, teach yourself." And I did.

3 years later, Dad gifted me with my first guitar acoustic guitar. It wasn't a Gibson or a Martin, but I think it was one of those Harmony guitars that @Scott Baxendale refurbishes.

Fast forward to 1976.

There I sat on the couch prior to supper time, playing that guitar, strumming and singing "Summer Breeze: Wife enters the living room....

She said, "Supper's ready."

I nodded my head affirmatedly. I kept playing.

Two minutes later, she screamed at the top of her lungs, "Your effing super is on the table!"

I said, "I know, I know, I heard you the first time. I'm gonna take a walk out outside and give you time to calm down."

I took 6 steps down to the foyer and stepped outside, closing the front door.

All of a sudden I heard a huge CRASHING sound on the inside of the front door.

Yep! She grabbed my guitar and threw it at the front door with force enough to create a sound hole on the backside of that guitar when it hit the doorknob.

I looked at her standing there at the top of the stairs with a frightened look upon her face.

She ran down the hallway and locked herself in a bathroom for 2 hours, giving me enough time to regain my composure, unstring the guitar, and wrap that guitar around a steel basement lolly column.

On the upside, I still have recordings of that guitar!

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