What Was Your Very First Guitar And What year Was It

Sargeant Preston said:
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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The reason I no longer have my Hofner Is because my dad got pissed off at my sister and smashed it... :ROFLMAO: :cautious:
 
My first guitar was ordered from a Sears catalog.
1983 or 84. I was determined to learn how to play some rock and roll!

I dug and chopped out mesquite trees on our property for $2 a tree to be able to buy this guitar. It was ugly as sin.

I took it apart and spray painted it like 5 times.
I got a little 10w generic amp too, and I blew the speaker out in about a year. I kept replacing car speakers into it until it caught fire.

I junked my first knee right about that time and my dad felt so bad for me that he bought me a little Peavey backstage plus?. It was a hundred times better.

I'll try and find a guitar ugly enough to represent what that thing was.....

Pretty close to this thing, but mine didn't have a brand or logo on it anywhere.
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My first guitar was a Teisco my dad bought me from K-Mart, we bought a small Alamo amp, and I believe it was 1971.
I had no idea what the strings were named, and couldn’t tune it properly, when I got signed up for lessons, they gave us acoustics, but I still didn’t understand or learn the string names.
But I did learn a couple of riffs with the help of a friend or two.
 
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