LP Freak
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Here's mine. My awesome Cortez Les Paul at my very first gig circa 1981. 
Halen
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1987 Kramer Focus 6000, bought it new for about two months worth of paychecks.
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billboogie
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Kent SG copy.
Had a Dimarzio Super D and a Super D 2 in the neck that I bought out
of the 'Music Emporium' catalog. $25 each. This was in 81-82
Had a Dimarzio Super D and a Super D 2 in the neck that I bought out
of the 'Music Emporium' catalog. $25 each. This was in 81-82
MrDowntown
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1983 Strat...in its current state. Obviously it was white in Christmas of '83.
mudf00t
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lol... no pics that shit was damn near 40 years ago haha. My first guitar was an Epiphone 12 string acoustic that a guy at our church gave me. The neck and broken off and he fixed it. I learned how to play Shout At The Devil on it. 
I didn't get my first electric guitar until 1985. It was an Aria Pro II strat type guitar.
I didn't get my first electric guitar until 1985. It was an Aria Pro II strat type guitar.
bog70
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A '72 Strat. Shortly thereafter I had a Fender Maple neck put on it. Pic from April, 1974. That was a '73 50 watt Marshall.
romanianreaper
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mudf00t":8wky5ldg said:lol... no pics that shit was damn near 40 years ago haha. My first guitar was an Epiphone 12 string acoustic that a guy at our church gave me. The neck and broken off and he fixed it. I learned how to play Shout At The Devil on it.
I didn't get my first electric guitar until 1985. It was an Aria Pro II strat type guitar.
LOL, reading your post is like reading my own life.
My parents got me a classical guitar first and then I got my first electric in 1985, an Aria Pro II "The Cat" electric in a guitar store in Germany. Funny reading your post because one of the first songs I learned for my first band on that guitar was "Shout at the Devil". I ended up trading that guitar with Robert Keeley and got his Ibanez Roadstar II with a Dimarzio in the bridge. I miss both of those guitars.
Chester Nimitz
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Teisco ET-200 from Montgomery Ward Catalog with a "student amp" for Xmas early 70's.
I had no money as a kid, i eventually put stripes on it, took apart the pups to see how they work.
Next axe was a 70's Gibsn SG.
cecilbag
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I got a Lotus les Paul copy. It just had a single humbucker and the neck bolted on. I bought it and a gorilla amp but the amp never worked.
bgh
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My first electric took me 2 months of saving yard mowing money. (Back then, in the 60s, you would get either 1 or 2 dollars for mowing a yard. The guitar cost me a full $50).
The guitar was a right-handed 4-pickup monster I ordered from Lafayette Electronics (anybody else remember them?). I am left-handed, so I had to re-string the guitar backwards in order to be able to play it. The action was super-high. But, I had me an electric guitar!
http://s288.photobucket.com/user/bh...tric guitar 2_zpsbci2bvuw.jpg.html?sort=3&o=9
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The guitar was a right-handed 4-pickup monster I ordered from Lafayette Electronics (anybody else remember them?). I am left-handed, so I had to re-string the guitar backwards in order to be able to play it. The action was super-high. But, I had me an electric guitar!
http://s288.photobucket.com/user/bh...tric guitar 2_zpsbci2bvuw.jpg.html?sort=3&o=9
For some reason, I cannot get the link from Photo-Bucket to work as an "Img" item. Not sure why.
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Racerxrated
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Late 70s Arbor LP copy. Sears Xmas catalog. Lol
4406cuda
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Mine looked just like the one below.
1970's Univox Hi-Flyer
1970's Univox Hi-Flyer
4406cuda
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bgh":13pl23gu said:
I remember a Lafayette Electronics in Rego Park, NY. It was on Queens Blvd.
Pushead
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An old Aria Pro. It's been my project test guitar for years, and it's not very good, but I always have fun playing it.
bgh
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Never got to see the "Brick and Mortar" version of the store. They used to send out catalogues. I would spend hours drooling over the things they offered. When I saw that guitar, it struck a chord with me and I began saving for it.4406cuda":24t7s91z said:
When I got enough saved up, I called the 1-800 number to order it. Back then credit cards were not nearly as prevalent as they are now. To purchase it, I had to place the order, give mom the money, and have her write a check to them. They shipped the guitar once they got the check from us.
Meanwhile, I was having conniption fits waiting for it to arrive.
When it finally arrived, I restrung it and plugged it in to my "Sears Silver-Tone" amp (I had an amp before I had a guitar. A friend had it for sale, but I ended up trading something for it. Don't remember what I trader for it. Too many years have passed).
The guitar sounded horrible. Well, to be honest, I sounded horrible. But that didn't bother me. I had me an electric guitar and an amp to go with it!
That was the guitar I played while learning to play electric guitar. Several years later a local music store had a Guild SG-style guitar on sale. I bought it on layaway. It became my main guitar - up until I got my SG.
mooncobra
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I had a Charvel! Got it from a friend who moved out of the neighborhood. I have wanted to ask him about it for the last 15 years now. So, my neighbor who at the time, was the COOLEST dude ever with his Marshall half stack, 4 guitars and a PK RIPPER!! He would always ramble about Charvels this, or that. I loved EVH (and 1984 had just come out, I could not get enough of Girl Gone Bad), but all I cared about getting was a Les Paul because Page was my favorite. So. my neighbor sold me the Charvel for 100 bucks, a pair of Cycle Pro BMX gloves, and the wheels that came on my Redline BMX bike. At the time I thought he was ripping me off, but I didn't care because I wanted a guitar so bad! It was probably an early Charvel, he had rich parents. He was a few years older than me, and he could play! That began the days that I would lock myself away and play for hours. I didn't even have an amp! I traded the Charvel for a Les Paul a year later and the dude that got it was really fired up. My parents eventually realized I was serious about playing and got me an amp. I sure wish I kept that Charvel. I think the body might have been all maple? the paint was reddish and transparent (maple flame could be seen through paint), and maple neck, with matching headstock, dual hum, and that awful trem that always came out of tune. I still don't think I have seen another Charvel similar to it. I really wish I would have held on to it. My neighbor, Hans, moved away not long after. He could ride a wheelie forever, had super long hair at 14 and shredded guitar, and always had a really hot girlfriend. I thought he was the coolest guy ever. Watching that guy play solos was one of the reasons I wanted to play. He made it look so easy. I remember when I started playing thinking, "this is a lot harder than he makes it look."
bgh
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mooncobra":1idlferw said:
The good ones do that. They make me want to go home and burn my guitars.
mooncobra
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bgh":3hhctp2n said:
He was one of those rare people who excelled at everything he did. He was unbelievable on a BMX bike, shredded guitar hard, played sports amazingly well, just one of those guys. He could ride a unicycle and juggle at the same time. It took me weeks to learn how to ride that damn unicycle! He was from Norway, his dad was a diplomat, and was gone a couple years later. Myself and the other younger kids from the neighborhood were bummed when he left. And all the girls had broken hearts.
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spacebard
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My first electric guitar was an hondo explorer, exactly like this one.
This thing was pretty heavy!
This thing was pretty heavy!
GregM
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I dug my first guitar out of the closet earlier this year. My dad picked this up at a garage sale for $15 when I was about 10. I didn't take interest for a couple years but decided to get it working one day and got hooked pretty quickly. I bought a Harmony Strat copy after that for $100 and played it for several years.
