This isn't your first purchase or best purchase (see separate threads), but the first ever guitar you picked up ...
... coulda been your 18th Birthday present from an Uncle or Ma/Pa guitar, or in my case I had a friend who's dad had his own band, and his dad had a white Ovation Deacon. Cool or what? Anyway one day after school my friend got the guitar case out the cupboard and we posed a bit, strummed a bit - no amp - then after a while my friend got nervous and it was packed away. But that guitar memory has stuck with my for XX (cough) years and if it weren't for the fact it's got some funny electrics, I might have got one by now.
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I was 5 at the time, but when I was around 10, I decided that I wanted to learn something, so I managed to work out an off key version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Around a week later I got bored and never touched it again.
Because this year I bought another old classical, a Japanese Aria from the early 80s… and it smells exactly how I remember my first one did inside .
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I've been doing some recording with it recently. Killer guitar.
Some have a slightly better Fender Jaguar-style one, but it's still not exactly great.
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I wasn't allowed to play it- he was left handed and was worried I would break it.
I was about 9, I think.
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i used to go with my dad to his mates pharmacist shop, and the guy gave me the guitar to keep me occupied, ...he eventually gave it me to keep, had some amplifier headphones with it .
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I was round their house and the brother was practicing a song for a gig that weekend, I asked if I could have a go, so he let me strap it on, and showed me a C chord and and A minor.
What a moment - absolute shivers down my spine! It took a while after that but I finally got a manky acoustic of my own. I don't think I've ever surpassed the sheer wonder of that first C chord though!
The top was badly warped so the top two strings didn't even touch the saddle. It was impossible to tune. But I mucked about and played Smoke on the Water on the bass strings. And haven't learned much else since.
Well its not quite my first guitar.. But its the first one I got serious about...
It was an old Kay double cut neck through with a natural finish... Pretty cool by all accounts.. Wish I still had it..
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Thus began my lifelong love of the humble Tele.
It wasn't even mine, a mate had had it for Christmas and we used to muck about on it. I have an idea it was more pink than orange though.
A New Beat, it looked like this...