What Was Your Very First Guitar And What year Was It

[Session 5]

My very first guitar was a Harmony electric, 1967, but 2014 was the year i seriously took up guitar, I started with lessons and my very first guitar at this time was a Squire Affinity Strat. Was a very good entry guitar at that time, and served its purpose, until i started on my journey and started looking into more guitars.

 

[gball]

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

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.

 

[Ps. 37]

Got this Kimberley 4-pickup beauty around 1970 from Lafayette Radio Electronics. Just for sentimental purposes, I wish I still had it.

Like so many youthful treasures, it was tossed by my folks and now resides in the sweet memories of my youth.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

1978 the parent's gave me a MIJ Goya L6-S copy which I think was a brilliant choice. Nice thin neck for my little hands, 24 fret, beautiful guitar I still cherish today.
Amp...? Well a very lame 20 watt Univox made Stage 65... I ditched it 2 years later for a Traynor TS200 half stack.

Stock pic

 

[Ps. 37]

I bought a STAGE UL-6 around the same time from Sam Goody's Record Store. Very Fender Champ-like as I recall.





My first amp (purchased with the Kimberley above also from Lafayette's) was this one:

 

[DirtySteve]

1982 Alvarez acoustic. I don't remember the model and I don't have a pic. I was 15, I got on a work program at school where I got to leave early 2 days a week to work part time. I worked at Dairy Queen making hotdogs, my first job. As soon as I made enough to buy my guitar I quit. All I did it for was to buy a guitar.

 

[67plexi]

My first electric guitar was a 1965 Kay 19 fret

https://reverb.com/item/75748914-vintage-1965-kay-vanguard-ii-w-gold-foil-pickups-project

My first amp was a 1948 Magna

My guitar teacher felt sorry for me and gave me a 1961 Les Paul SG
Next I worked all summer 16 hours a day for a brick layer got my first new guitar and amp a 1972 Les Paul Custom and a 2 x 12 Ampeg guitar amp

 

[Seamus OReally]

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.

 

[Jethro Rocker]

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.