SFW
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1974 Les Paul Custom that I bought in 1988 for $450. Wish I still had that guitar. Sold t in the early 2000s because I thought I needed a PRS. Lol.
LanierP
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I begged my parents for a guitar when I was around 12,, this was around 1980 give or take. Christmas came and went and no guitar. Finally my Dad caved and we went together down to Chuck Atkins world of music, a store in Homestead Florida that was local. They had Les Paul's, Strats, some really cool stuff. My dad saw the prices and flipped! The salesman talked us into a white Peavey Horizon 2. It looked cool, had a whammy bar and everything! We left with that and and a backstage plus amp.
I played that guitar for about 4 years before upgrading to a Charvel model 6, with a Kahler on it. The Peavy would never stay in tune and had those pickups with the bar going across the top and they sounded like shit. Amp sounded like Shit too. I recently have been trying to find another white horizon 2,just for nostalgia sake, but they are hard to come by. Probably because most people who owned these probably destroyed them in a fit of out of tune rage!
mooncobra
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LanierP":a5c5rom9 said:
I begged my parents for a guitar when I was around 12,, this was around 1980 give or take. Christmas came and went and no guitar. Finally my Dad caved and we went together down to Chuck Atkins world of music, a store in Homestead Florida that was local. They had Les Paul's, Strats, some really cool stuff. My dad saw the prices and flipped! The salesman talked us into a white Peavey Horizon 2. It looked cool, had a whammy bar and everything! We left with that and and a backstage plus amp.
I played that guitar for about 4 years before upgrading to a Charvel model 6, with a Kahler on it. The Peavy would never stay in tune and had those pickups with the bar going across the top and they sounded like shit. Amp sounded like Shit too. I recently have been trying to find another white horizon 2,just for nostalgia sake, but they are hard to come by. Probably because most people who owned these probably destroyed them in a fit of out of tune rage!
dude, I had a backstage plus for a while at one point! ran a boss distortion into it.
LanierP
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mooncobra":2zx5t1di said:LanierP":2zx5t1di said:
I begged my parents for a guitar when I was around 12,, this was around 1980 give or take. Christmas came and went and no guitar. Finally my Dad caved and we went together down to Chuck Atkins world of music, a store in Homestead Florida that was local. They had Les Paul's, Strats, some really cool stuff. My dad saw the prices and flipped! The salesman talked us into a white Peavey Horizon 2. It looked cool, had a whammy bar and everything! We left with that and and a backstage plus amp.
I played that guitar for about 4 years before upgrading to a Charvel model 6, with a Kahler on it. The Peavy would never stay in tune and had those pickups with the bar going across the top and they sounded like shit. Amp sounded like Shit too. I recently have been trying to find another white horizon 2,just for nostalgia sake, but they are hard to come by. Probably because most people who owned these probably destroyed them in a fit of out of tune rage!
dude, I had a backstage plus for a while at one point! ran a boss distortion into it.
Yeah, unfortunately I was so new to guitar at the time, I had no clue as to maybe try a pedal in front of it. The distortion on it was so bad; mud mud mud dude!!!
rottingcorpse
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mine was a rhodes copy that darrell sold me out of his closet. i made a Jackson parody logo that said Jackin' and people thought it was a real Jackson. wish i still had that guitar.
UltraGary
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Brandon Breeze
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My very first guitar was a Harmony Acoustic when I was 10, this was the first guitar that I bought with my own money, Wayne's World might have had some influence lol. It started off as a Fender Squire Strat Bullet Series with a rosewood board. I picked up a squire neck with maple board and skunk stripe & much better tuners, the proceeded to scallop the fretboard myself. After a fret polish and set the action to Yngwie specs it plays amazingly.
kylendm
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Ibanez SA160 from '01
I still play it to this day. Killer guitar actually haha.
I still play it to this day. Killer guitar actually haha.
mooncobra
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LanierP":2m5b78ia said:mooncobra":2m5b78ia said:LanierP":2m5b78ia said:
I begged my parents for a guitar when I was around 12,, this was around 1980 give or take. Christmas came and went and no guitar. Finally my Dad caved and we went together down to Chuck Atkins world of music, a store in Homestead Florida that was local. They had Les Paul's, Strats, some really cool stuff. My dad saw the prices and flipped! The salesman talked us into a white Peavey Horizon 2. It looked cool, had a whammy bar and everything! We left with that and and a backstage plus amp.
I played that guitar for about 4 years before upgrading to a Charvel model 6, with a Kahler on it. The Peavy would never stay in tune and had those pickups with the bar going across the top and they sounded like shit. Amp sounded like Shit too. I recently have been trying to find another white horizon 2,just for nostalgia sake, but they are hard to come by. Probably because most people who owned these probably destroyed them in a fit of out of tune rage!
dude, I had a backstage plus for a while at one point! ran a boss distortion into it.
Yeah, unfortunately I was so new to guitar at the time, I had no clue as to maybe try a pedal in front of it. The distortion on it was so bad; mud mud mud dude!!!
the distortion was the worst thing I have ever heard!! without a pedal, oh man, I don't even want to think about that!!
MrDowntown
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UltraGary":3w2to8yt said:
The bridge didn't work...so you were reeling off EVH and Ace licks???, in the neck....?? of a Tele??
on dude! 
nevusofota
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1990 RG770. I still have it.
LP Freak
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I wish I still had my first guitar 
The Traveller
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stratjacket
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mine was a blue mid 80's Cort flying V.
I sold watermelons on the side of the road, made enough money and bought it from a pawn shop along with a little Fender practice amp (I think it was called a Sidekick). Good times...
I sold watermelons on the side of the road, made enough money and bought it from a pawn shop along with a little Fender practice amp (I think it was called a Sidekick). Good times...
jammin1
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I had a early 80's Electra like this one plugged into a peavey bandit 
Wish I kept it.
Wish I kept it.
T
thisguy
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I started on some cheap pawn shop guitar my dad bought for us to start on then saved up my money for this...
Not a bad guitar to learn on!
I thought I was so cool when I saw Back to the Future!
Not a bad guitar to learn on!
I thought I was so cool when I saw Back to the Future!
T
thefyn
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My first first is an acoustic. But the first guitar I bought was this:
Still have it.
Back in the day:
This is what I was playing back then (late 80's)
Still have it.
Back in the day:
This is what I was playing back then (late 80's)
atrox
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LanierP":v64b2tln said:
I begged my parents for a guitar when I was around 12,, this was around 1980 give or take. Christmas came and went and no guitar. Finally my Dad caved and we went together down to Chuck Atkins world of music, a store in Homestead Florida that was local. They had Les Paul's, Strats, some really cool stuff. My dad saw the prices and flipped! The salesman talked us into a white Peavey Horizon 2. It looked cool, had a whammy bar and everything! We left with that and and a backstage plus amp.
I played that guitar for about 4 years before upgrading to a Charvel model 6, with a Kahler on it. The Peavy would never stay in tune and had those pickups with the bar going across the top and they sounded like shit. Amp sounded like Shit too. I recently have been trying to find another white horizon 2,just for nostalgia sake, but they are hard to come by. Probably because most people who owned these probably destroyed them in a fit of out of tune rage!
Haha. This was my first guitar too. Mine was black on black with a maple board like below. It did sound like shit. I had no tuning issues, but yeah... i did not like that guitar much.
UltraGary
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MrDowntown":dwz3h43f said:UltraGary":dwz3h43f said:
The bridge didn't work...so you were reeling off EVH and Ace licks???, in the neck....?? of a Tele??
Not licks as much as that toggle-switch on/off-stutter trick. Now THAT I could handle!
ghosty999
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When I was 14 I went on a family vacation to the USA, we stopped off in LA and begged my parents to go to Guitar Center. Got this DKNY, great Jap early 2000s quality. Gigged it for 6 years solidly as my main guitar and never had an issue...
