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woodhead	Date: February 8, 2004 @ 3:43 PM And be honest now, mine was a Kent, boy talk about cheap, but for a beginner was actually cool, if you like baseball bat sized necks that is.
musicpicks	Date: February 8, 2004 @ 3:51 PM " id="85047">I started with a cheap Kramer, it was as close as I could get to:
Distilled1	Date: February 8, 2004 @ 4:04 PM Yamaha strat copy... hmm it must of been kinda pricy as my Mom didn't want to buy it! wow that was a long time ago, hey some of those Kramers were great I had a 179$ Kramer striker that played by itself sorry I ever gave it up
leflaw	Date: February 8, 2004 @ 6:17 PM Framus solid body electric. Made by Hofner. Just like Paul.
onewhodreams	Date: February 8, 2004 @ 7:41 PM In 1984 I got a Black and White Fender Squire for my 15th birthday, a tiny Fender Amp and a Heavy Metal Pedal. Those were the days
mawcs	Date: February 9, 2004 @ 11:18 AM epiphone. nuff said.
kredd	Date: February 9, 2004 @ 11:32 AM a saga gladiator...ooooooooooh(crowd gasps with envy!!!) yeah, i'd never heard of it before either, nor since....
Jesuszilla	Date: February 9, 2004 @ 4:49 PM Les Paul Epiphone is my first, and only, guitar! Just over 4 years now. Wanna... new... one... bad...
NeverMorning	Date: February 9, 2004 @ 6:45 PM Started with a very bad samick strato-clone... Now I'm in love with my new telecaster standard.
Arthen	Date: February 10, 2004 @ 6:18 AM Started with a cheap Squire, but with so many modifications to it it's still the only guitar I play with till now since the past 5 years. Not the mention Malmsteen's signature on it would boost its shred value up millions
OneUnderAttack	Date: February 12, 2004 @ 12:52 AM I know I play bass but I can tell you my First as well as worst Bass was my Squier P-Bass, I got so good it couldn't handle the power I needed and so its broken. Now I play on Ibanez and Warwick basses and they can hold the power of slap/Funk rock bass. My guitarist started on my acoustic guitar actually which is a guitar that isn't even being made anymore. The Company Retired themselves. But his second guitar was a Dean Acoustic/Electric in which he grew beyond the Acoustics and moved onto a Deluxe Fender Strat, After that he started to play on Esp LTD guitars which have a cleaner/Crisper/Better, oh yes much better tone.
Woof	Date: February 12, 2004 @ 4:05 AM My first was a Les Paul copy from Sears, but I never learned to play it... Then I got a no-name acoustic, and fell in love... I still play on a semiacoustic primarily, to this day...
johnnygnote	Date: February 12, 2004 @ 4:20 AM Generic Classical nylon string at age 12, then a Ventura V1 when my parents thought I showed promise age 13.
utopiauk	Date: February 12, 2004 @ 4:31 AM My first was an Encore electric that cost £20 from a second hand shop. I bought it with the money from my 15th birthday. It was bright red and never stayed in tune. I sold it after a year. Wish I had kept it.
CrescentShadow	Date: February 12, 2004 @ 6:42 AM my first and only electric is a squire ... im getting a new one after i work this summer.
MEMROX	Date: February 12, 2004 @ 9:26 AM ibanez les paul custom from the 70's ....i started to play on it when i was 7 years old..
victorsskull	Date: February 12, 2004 @ 9:56 AM the thing didnt have a name on it looked like angus youngs guitar
synesthesia	Date: February 13, 2004 @ 11:11 PM A black strat copy from this company called Guitar Research
MEMROX	Date: February 17, 2004 @ 5:28 AM some of my guitars http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL376/41216/56176/2358121.jpg
MEMROX	Date: February 17, 2004 @ 5:29 AM http://pic11.picturetrail.com/VOL376/41216/56176/425703.jpg
Strutherburg	Date: February 19, 2004 @ 6:52 PM a good old baracuda strat copy.. it did the job for a bit before the tuners started to snap my string and my bridge needed replacing and tons of other shit.. it sits in teh corner now
MarcSalmon	Date: February 29, 2004 @ 6:45 AM blimey memrox, that's quite a selection of guitars. my first guitar was a black and white encore strat. then i had an encore les paul which was horrible. When i'd progressed abit i got an epiphone les paul (standrd) which i still have and is the only electric i have now. I've had it for about 5 years now. I've now got a taylor 414LE - Limited Edition (electro acoustic) as well, which is my baby. I'm starting to look into what electric to buy next. I've been playin on my friends fender strat a lot recently because i love the tone, but im just not sure if i like the look of them that much. I prefer the look of telecasters, but do they produce the same kinda sound?
misslaura	Date: March 4, 2004 @ 5:02 PM hahahahahah....HARMONY...isn't that sad...
pog	Date: March 4, 2004 @ 5:20 PM I just posted a pic of me playing my old stratocater about 10 years ago... I think I was under those dreadlocks somewhere
Vickxxx	Date: March 5, 2004 @ 12:56 AM my first guitar was an old silvertone F-hole electric with tobacco sunburst finish........ first bass was some type of Hofner copy(Aria maybe??) Kinda funny to think I started playing on these chunks of lumber.................
Arahilion	Date: March 6, 2004 @ 8:12 AM My first was a Squier Fender Statocaster a yellow one, I even played it on one school performance, lol the damn pick-ups did some nerving peeps =) Well, my brother was playing guitar too and he bought this Squier and a squier amp from his friend for 200 DM (German Mark), thats about 100 €. After he stopped playing guitar because of lacking time, I took it and learned with it for 1 year i think. Fortunately I got an Epiphone SG for 2 years now =). But i wanna a new guitaaar, like B.c.rich , jackson or something oiek that, u know something that sounds metal. hehe stay metaled
Etheracide	Date: March 7, 2004 @ 8:30 PM My first one was a lil red junior electric guitar. My friend nicknamed 'her' Rosie. I ended up trading 'her' to him for an Ibanez RX Series strat. I guess he just had to have it since it was Red and that's been his nickname since...well as long as he's had red hair (21 years now). Wow...lots of extra info packed into this one. I must be making up months of inactivity haha I currently have the Ibanez and an Epiphone SG which I believe needs to be retired...or it appears to have retired itself. I need new axes though!
graw81	Date: March 14, 2004 @ 8:05 AM i started off on an acoustic, not agreat one, but i learned alot from it. price is nowt when it comes to guitars, zakk wyldes old bullseye cost €350 in a pawn store... sweeeeeeeet!
Tiakis	Date: March 17, 2004 @ 3:16 PM I've tried to play a ukulele and I did not like the sound of it. It sounded so tinnie and phoney so I stopped.
tossom	Date: March 27, 2004 @ 6:21 PM My first guitar was a 3/4 size cheap nylon strung acoustic - think its still lurking in my parent's attic somewhere! First electric was a black Yamaha Pacifica 112 - it was transformed into "zebra guitar" when I was about 16 when I got bored one day and found some white tape... You'll be pleased to hear that I treat my newer guitars with a lot more respect.
Rodrica	Date: March 27, 2004 @ 6:24 PM Mine was a toy one when I was about 5!
jcmathews	Date: March 28, 2004 @ 12:22 AM A Harmony Telecaster copy. Wish I still had it...sigh. Melodic rock guitar instrumentals found at: http://jcmathews.dmusic.com
smooka	Date: April 2, 2004 @ 12:09 PM ovation
DevonPowell	Date: April 2, 2004 @ 4:36 PM Electric - Charvel/Jackson imitation that was about as heavy as a pallate of bricks. I can't even remember who made it, I covered it up with stickers I still have it...I'm sentimental (not to mention a packrat). Acoustic - A really beautiful sounding POS under the name VJ Rendano. It was a large body, kind of a Gibson copy, and it had a deep sound that would match up against Martin's (yeh..weird). My wife sold it for $10 at a moving sale...I was out of town and found out when I got back. That was painful... I also had an Ovation shallow-body acoustic/electric that I got about the same time. Now it's the Yairi (Shivers). Ooooooh! Say it again. Yairi (Ooooooooh!)
billhudson	Date: April 6, 2004 @ 11:53 AM Started out with a sears guitar then moved to a some kind of gold ele. guitar. I was about 10 years old or so and remembered going to some kind guitar classes, but did not learn much. In 1967 when I was out in the midwest I met some folks from Calf. Back then everyone was playing the guitar and I started to just jam with them. Thats where I learned the most. That is, jamimg with others and asking how did they do that cord. And I am still learning. Still Pickin' Bill H.
sqrlcub	Date: April 6, 2004 @ 4:52 PM I started on bass and had a Fender Squire bullet bass. Later I got my first guitar. It was a piece of crap Ventura acoustic. It had the worst tone ever really but the neck and action were incredibly comfortable. I upgraded to an Ovation (hardly an upgrade, though I enjoyed playing it) and finally onto classical but that isn't in the scope of this.
badvibez	Date: April 9, 2004 @ 1:49 PM Started on a Ibanez AR300 and Mesa Boogie DC3 amp
FiveBob	Date: April 28, 2004 @ 3:18 AM hahaha a heap of shit electric made by Daion!!! until i saved up a bit of cash then i bought a seconhand kramer with dimarzios in it which really rocked!
sqrlcub	Date: April 28, 2004 @ 11:21 AM I started on the bass guitar and had a Fender Squire Bullet bass, you know, the cheesy one. It was a nice instrument and everything but I moved away from the bass fairly quickly. My first guitar was a piece of shit Ventura acoustic. It was before I learned about classical guitars. I got it in hopes of playing Renaissance sounding music. I had a really crappily strat knock off for electric guitars at this time too. I later moved to an Ovation acoustic electric something or other. I personally think Ovations are crap because the lack of ribbing and backing to the soundboard don't allow it to age properly and there are often problems with the soundboard falling off the plastic back. I bought a decent Ibanez electric at this time too. I should probably sell it sometime since I haven't played it in around 5 years and haven't changed the strings for a lot longer. My first classical guitar I got when I started college. It is a La Patrie Collection. It sounds better than most of the lower end luthier made guitars (aka guitars around the 1000-2000 buck range). I picked one of these up at their heighth of quality but before they were one of the "name" guitars. The guitar quality and price has since slipped. My first really good guitar (and my current) is a 28 year old luthier made classical done by Tom Blacksheer. It has been appraised several times but the typical appraisal value comes back around at $3500. The highest appraisal I received from it was $5500. I have never received an appraisal for it less than $3000. (I have had it appraised 6 times.) I bought it for a steal at $500. It is a powerhouse of a guitar. It has great tone, even greater volume, and is very playable. It is the guitar I used in my current recordings. You can hear it's tone best on The Sylvan Frolic piece I have on here. My first lute is a luthier copy of a Hans Frei lute in F (lutes are normally in g). I haven't played it in a while because it is a real bitch to tune the 15 strings but it has a nice sound for a lute. I am on the market for a Theorbo now (it looks like a cross between a lute and a harp guitar with an extra head at the top of the instrument) but don't want to pay the 5 grand it would take to have it made.
Traf	Date: April 30, 2004 @ 7:35 PM Mine was an EKO electric. I was 14 and it looked great in the shop window. The pickups sounded like an angry wasp in a tin and the strings were at least an inch off the fretboard... I really miss it now though and often wonder were it is and is it ok...
MisledMayhem	Date: April 30, 2004 @ 9:47 PM Samic acoustic, i'm a pack rat, I have all my stuff still.....that and i am poor. I messed up one of the frets on it, but i still use it for all my dm solo acts!
UnbreakableTed	Date: May 1, 2004 @ 10:00 AM Some kinda Strat-knockoff with a mildly warped neck and 30 year old strings that sounded like death. I've still got it someplace. I've also got an Ovation now, because it was cheap.
Droquen	Date: September 29, 2004 @ 11:11 PM My first guitar was a Squier Affinity Strat which I got last Christmas, and is currently my only guitar for now. Can't wait to get a new one, I needs some humbuckin'
GTLive	Date: September 30, 2004 @ 8:23 AM At the age of 11 1974 (ahem) I got a cheap Montoya classical with a really fat neck. I learned "Mary Had A Little Lamb" and "Jingle Bells" on it. In 1976, a friend of mine gave me his guitar (which he stole) before going to jail. It was a Hohner HG300. I learned how to play on this, which I kept until it literally fell apart in 1988. I replaced it with a Takamine accoustic, that I only sold this year (kids needed shoes). I now have 3 - A matching pair of Carlo Robellis that I love, and an old Emperador. 2 Accoustics and 1 very sweet semihollow electric. Nothing too expensive.
C-Side	Date: October 6, 2004 @ 10:58 AM I'm still using my first and only guitar, my Squire Bullet Strat.
gothian	Date: October 6, 2004 @ 1:08 PM 15 years ago, I started playing with my brother's acoustic guitar, then in 1993 I bought an Ibanez EX series which I still have. I don't like the idea of selling my old stuff, so I'll never get rid of it, no matter what !!
koiulpoi	Date: October 6, 2004 @ 7:23 PM My sister's 3/4 size acoustic she got for christmas. She threw it in her closet after playing for a week. Later, I got it out and started playing. I got a Squire as my first real guitar, moved onto a Steinberger headless, and now I just got a Cordoba Classical.
MicroGlyphics	Date: October 6, 2004 @ 7:49 PM My first guitar was an SG copy, then I bought a couple (few) Japanese Greco copies. They actually played well in retrospect, but I hawked 'em.
tsand19151	Date: October 7, 2004 @ 5:06 AM My very first guitar was a Kimberly. It was one of those guitars with 6, yes 6 pickups on it (!). Funny thing is they all sounded like crap. The neck was so bowed I could shoot arrows with it. My first "real" guitar was an Ibanez SG copy. At the time guitarist laughed at Ibanez, but Ibanez went on to become a major guitar maker. My first "real, real" guitar was a fender strat. Been playing strats ever sense.
flitzapotato	Date: October 23, 2004 @ 3:01 PM I statrted w/a kramer pacer.The thing played great,wish i still had the damn thing.
flitzapotato	Date: October 23, 2004 @ 3:03 PM HAVE A OLD IBANEZ RT NOW,HAS ANYBODY SEEN ANY OF THOES AROUND?WOULD LIKE TO GET ANOTHER ONE.
flitzapotato	Date: October 23, 2004 @ 3:06 PM I THINK ITS CALLED RT THERE IS NO MODLE NAME ON IT.BUT THATS THE FIRST 2 LETTERS IN THE SER #.
colquitt66	Date: October 24, 2004 @ 12:38 AM A Harmony Rocket hollow body.
milesov	Date: October 25, 2004 @ 4:51 PM i started with a 1965 fender mustang, and being the dummy that i am, i smashed it one nite when i was wasted. next i got a westone concord III, that thing has great action for a cheezy guitar. now i have an ibanez rg550 thats about 18yrs old i guess, a yamaha classical thats about 15yrs old and a fender strat thats 7 or 8yrs old...anyone first picking up a guitar should learn on an electric in my opinion, reason i think this is it is just easier to play for a beginner who is starting out and has no hand strength.
jeddak	Date: November 9, 2004 @ 10:27 PM A Rico classical, given to me by my neighbor up the street who was cleaning out his attic. Then my friend's "Frankenstein" guitar, composed of a Kent 12-string electric body married to a Montoya Les-Paul-style neck. Pumped through my family's Onkyo tape deck on full, I could imitate both Neil and Angus Young.
bulletxtheory	Date: November 13, 2004 @ 4:02 PM had a peavey i got from the stirtchley exchange broke the neck clean off the body somehow but the strings are all still together:/
AnatomizingA...	Date: November 16, 2004 @ 7:18 PM I used a crestwood acoustic that my brother used then passed down to me when he got an elec./acoustic fender... what an ass I still use that acoustic, but got a fender strat.
geetarman	Date: November 16, 2004 @ 8:58 PM I sold underground newspapers on Woodward Ave and bought a Gibson SG. Wish I still had that geetar...
AdamsGod	Date: November 17, 2004 @ 8:57 PM i had aclassical nylon string "Delta"... WHAT THE FUCK IS A DELTA!?!?
sinai	Date: November 17, 2004 @ 11:01 PM i believe it was called "Guitareffect3"
geetarman	Date: November 18, 2004 @ 8:51 AM Adam, You know, Delta, after it made your fingers bleed you'd throw the guitar out the window!!! Fly the friendly skies of Delta
mdearing	Date: November 18, 2004 @ 10:54 PM My first new guitar was a Charvette. Kind of the Epiphone of Charvels. What a piece of
Hlao-roo	Date: November 28, 2004 @ 1:18 PM I had an old classical small sized... It was so shatty that I still don't know what kid it is... I know it was made in 1956, though... so it was ooooollllldddd! It was so shatty... I wouldn't touch it with a stick today though...
zedsalt	Date: November 29, 2004 @ 11:12 AM The first one I played on a regular basis was my sister's Global acoustic w/ action literally an inch high at the neckjoint! The first one I owned was a Harmony w/ a maple fingerboard and two single coils which, all considered, wasn't that bad. My first "real" guitar was a Guild S100 Deluxe. It's still my workhorse. Hey, NeverMorning, y'know who makes the necks they use on most of the Gibson Custom Shop instruments? That's right: Samick. Criminal, isn't it? You can pay $30,000 for a "handmade, one of a kind" guitar or bass, and the neck is pulled out of a box that was shipped in from across the Pacific! In answer to MarcSalmon's question: there are some major tone differences between Strats and Teles. You can find three pickup Teles w/ the right switch to get the much-desired "in-between" settings, but I don't know whether or not they have the big brass plate on the back of the bridge pickup or not (that's partially responsible for the Tele twanginess). If you have the bucks and you're pretty handy, you could always put together exactly what you want using Warmoth parts.
DaveHall	Date: November 29, 2004 @ 12:48 PM My Girlfriend gave me an Epiphone 12 string acoustic from the late 70's, I still have it and it sounds great!
chazcountry	Date: November 29, 2004 @ 3:14 PM My first guitar was a Gibson Dove 6 string Flat top. Then a Gisbson Les-Paul sunburst. As of now I own an Ibanez electric, with 2 Strat singles, and a Humbucker Dbl. pick-up. I also have a Taylor Flattop.... the cheapest they sell!!!! I own a Johnson flattop for when I travel and want to write.
joshmerfi	Date: November 29, 2004 @ 6:59 PM a really crappy harmony strat copy. then I moved on to a teisco crap guitar, which I actually miss.
Gizmogle	Date: December 19, 2004 @ 5:15 PM hmm..first guitar eevverr was a broked 3 stringed acoustic by sum make ive never even heard of! then i got a Yamaha ERG which im gonna sell soon, then i got a Stagg Warlock and now ive got a Epiphone Gibson SG
GreatGooglyM...	Date: January 1, 2005 @ 5:31 AM I started with a cheap Strat knock-off, which I still have. http://images2.dmusic.com/users/s/o/l/soloist/37429.jpg
BlackMage	Date: January 1, 2005 @ 6:14 AM Woo, for cheap Strat knock-offs! After I got my first floyd rose guitar, I wonder how I ever survived with a Strat... a squire one.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: January 1, 2005 @ 6:49 AM Yep, and now I'm wondering how I'm surviving currently without a floyd rose.
rulian	Date: January 1, 2005 @ 11:53 AM fender dg 11e, i enjoeyed it
Spott	Date: January 4, 2005 @ 3:46 PM I started with a Tempo guitar, which had an Explorer design. Awful guitar. The store had made me a deal..... that guitar + a 15 watts amp (for the life of me I can't remember the make) and a Fuzz box..... the whole kit for about $200.00. Well, that lasted me about 1 year since I couldn't raise enough money to buy anything else.
furiousBall	Date: January 4, 2005 @ 3:52 PM my first guitar was a reverse head stock black Charvel
8111	Date: January 5, 2005 @ 12:42 AM first electric six-string was a Hondo 2. Fucking excellent, basic, all purpose, Les Paul shape, good intonation...real narrow neck
theforgotten	Date: January 7, 2005 @ 7:52 PM epiphone....love it but its huge with a pretty good for its age sound
gravy426	Date: January 10, 2005 @ 11:53 PM epiphone jr with one pickup,traded it and $50 for a squire stagemaster, just bought an ibanez acoutic/elect
imemine	Date: January 11, 2005 @ 12:09 AM I started with a bucket, a stick and some twine cause when I was a kid we didn’t have them fancy Stratoblasters and them Les Pauls WAY back then---hell, Les Paul was still playing the cello in elementary school when I was playing on the bucket!
AngelinHeat	Date: January 11, 2005 @ 1:17 AM I played my dad's Mustang for about a half year until I bought my 1994 American Chrome red Stratocaster (pics in my profile), and about a year later I bought my classical.
andycodd	Date: February 3, 2005 @ 8:32 PM Goya classical guitar. $89.99, oh yea.
moam	Date: February 4, 2005 @ 8:35 PM Just bought a Washburn accoustic today 239.99 Any tips out there for a computer user like me getting into accoustic guitar
badnuz1957	Date: February 13, 2005 @ 10:15 AM My first acoustic was some no-name "student guitar" with extra heavy duty steel strings. My first electric was an epiphone les paul (still have).
indifferentl...	Date: February 14, 2005 @ 2:30 PM My first electric was a squier stratocaster that a youth minister gave me while visiting a church, my first acoustic was this old shoddy offbrand I saw in a band closet at school... so I um... requisitioned it... and put some alchemy strings on it, sounds great, still have both, my strat is stripped and waiting for new parts.... at some point.
Mshort813	Date: February 15, 2005 @ 4:09 PM Yahmaha Pacifica. I started with it and i am still using it 5 years later. it was only $100 and I still love it. I also now have a Rickebacker which I bought on ebay for an extremely low price. The guy who sold it didn't know what model he had so he thought it was worthless. what an asshat.
Davo1034	Date: February 16, 2005 @ 9:28 AM Yeah but thank god he's an asshat! You lucky punk! My first guitar was a second hand 3/4 size classical.. i've no idea what make. But it was £30 and it started my love! Later a Yamaha Pacifica 112 was the first electric. They really are good, but mine suffered from a cracking fretboard and I had to get rid of it. Dave
blityblah	Date: March 21, 2005 @ 9:11 PM a strat knockoff, that i acually just got a little over a week ago
OddOneOut	Date: March 22, 2005 @ 1:24 PM im still on my first- handmade acoustic that i got on holiday in The Philippines, in RJs guitars, for £30.i luv it to bits^^
stratmanstl	Date: March 23, 2005 @ 11:17 AM An electric made by a UK company called Axe. It was red with the word AXE printed in huge letters on it, not overly subtle.
mos	Date: March 23, 2005 @ 2:52 PM An acoustic, my first electric was a Fender Strat ( I hate it, I sold it )now Im using an Ibanez SZ and a RG Prestige
guitarjunkie	Date: March 31, 2005 @ 11:45 AM Fender squier
spinblush	Date: April 17, 2005 @ 3:02 AM An ovation. Electric Acoustic.
towanda123	Date: April 17, 2005 @ 4:11 PM squier strat. Power.
EvilPicnic	Date: May 27, 2005 @ 10:41 AM A 1/4 size from Argos... On electric, a Squier Strat, which is still my only guitar (had a midrange Ibanez for about a week. got pissed off with it and took it back). The Strat is actually a decent guitar, I've modded it fairly heavily (completely new wiring, pots and a hotrail in the bridge) and can put up with it for now. My next guitar has to be perfect, I won't buy anything less.
EvilPicnic	Date: May 27, 2005 @ 10:47 AM Sqrlcub, one of my aims in life is to own and regularly play a Theorbo. I saw a guy playing one, and it was absolutely amazing. Unfortunately, being 16 and jobless I haven't even got enough money to get myself a decent electric, let alone a Theorbo. I have distinct feeling that this is a dream which will never be realized...
Intergalacti...	Date: May 28, 2005 @ 8:23 PM A Rockwood 3/4 size electric, I couldn't handle a full size when I first started

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