What was the first musicians guitar that you ever desired?

chrishill901

Slash's Les Paul Goldtop. Saw this on VHS when I was about 10 and it made me want to play guitar. Wanted that guitar ever since and a few months ago I bought an LP Classic Goldtop and put Slash pickups in it and it's just brilliant. His cherry guitar from the same VHS that he plays Nightrain on is a definite want too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LVb5odgKPE

UnclePsychosis

 

Dave_Vader

I wanted Brian May's Red Special.

Still do, but have not and will not buy one of the replicas because the only one I would want would be a top of the line hugely expensive thing and I would feel a total prick playing it in public.

I never wanted a strat, and never saw any pictures of Dave Gilmour as my main guitar took shape.

It's black, with white pickups, and a little switch that turns the neck pickup on and off.

I made it like that over 20 odd years before a drummer asked me if it was a Gilmour signature.

It is not.

It is this thing.

Modellista

Wanted Nuno’s N4, all lovingly battered and the bare wood covered in grunge. 

Could afford an N2 new from Music Ground in Leeds in ‘92.  Excellent instrument even though I’ve not played it in public in years.  Looks a bit small on me. But still feels like home.  

Johnspreyer

Hank Marvin's red Strat and Chet Atkins' Gretsch.  Have still never owned a solid guitar or a Gretsch!

Moonrunner

A) What was the first musicians guitar that you ever desired?

When I was a kid, I always wanted a red Fender Strat like what Mark Knopfler played and also a black 70s Strat like what Sting was playing in the video of Walking on the Moon. Since those days, always wanted Ibanez guitars, most likely because of Steve Vai.

Never owned a real Fender Strat, but bought a few lower end Ibanez RG guitars.

Universal8

Fender Strat because of Knopfler, Gilmour, Hendrix etc. Don’t own one but will within the next 3 months 

stimpsonslostson

Modellista said:

Wanted Nuno’s N4, all lovingly battered and the bare wood covered in grunge. 

Could afford an N2 new from Music Ground in Leeds in ‘92.  Excellent instrument even though I’ve not played it in public in years.  Looks a bit small on me. But still feels like home.  

I've long fancied an "N" guitar, bare wood, small Strat body etc all appeal to me. 

idiotwindow

I guess I bought a D-28 as a first guitar in part because of the association of Martin dreadnoughts with great artists like Lennon and McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, etc. 

dilbert

There are only two that spring to mind and I don't think I'd have to fight anyone for them

• a Clappo strat, the plain ordinary black one. Tried one years ago and everything about it seemed okay it just felt right. The V neck is the best I have ever had my left hand on and the matt finish made it feel incrdibly tactile. The weight was right and the black finish just made it understated, a real working guitar. I don't mind Lace sensors, but I would have changed them with time as I'm an inveterate 'modder'. Not sure about the boost system, never got to try it in anger. but if it good enough for EC, etc.

• The other one was a Jerry Donohue  'JD' MIJ Tele. First Tele I ever played and I wish I'h bought one, again the neck was really nice, the pickup switching options were practical and made it another decent jobbing guitar. I tried the USA sig model some time later and thought from memory I preferred the Jap version. But then again, so did Jerry so I consider my decision vindicated.

That's about it really, neither would set the world alight but both would get the job done and done well.   

And no, I don't now or have ever owned either!         

Tenebrous

Greenwood's original Tele.

stimpsonslostson

https://hub.chapmanguitars.co.uk/ArtistImages/rob-chapman-01.jpg

MichaelAT

I guess I had a rather unusual "first encounter": the white Les Paul that Wylcef Jean played in one of his CD booklets! 

+1 to Slash's Goldtop, that one followed soon afterwards. I still keep searching for a pre-historic Goldtop. I was close to buying one a couple of years ago, from the US. But messing around with customs and paying the duties back then made me bail out. Still regret that move...

@mudslide73 - love INXS & Tim Farriss' funky, catchy guitar riffs! 

Blueingreen

Peter Green's Les Paul.

I did get a Les Paul but it was nothing like his (black Custom).  Les Pauls were rare beasts in my neck of the woods and when a used one came up for sale I grabbed it.  I sold it when money was tight.

Years later I do have an exceptionally nice Les Paul (Axcess model) but time has moved on and my semi-hollows and Stratalikes get played a lot more. 

mattdavis

Unoriginal - and echoing others- but definitely Slash’s ‘87 Les Paul from the Use your illusion tour. Wore out those tour videos teaching myself guitar to those songs. 
Vividly remember a Gibson magazine advert with that guitar.

FelineGuitars

tone1

Mick Ronson, Steve Jones and Mark Bolan’s Les Pauls.....and Buddy Holly’s Strat

WiresDreamDisasters

I'd quite like a Les Paul Silverburst to complete the Adam Jones makeover.

Groke

Ric 330 because of The Jam. Then later on because of Johnny Marr. I did own one in the early nineties a mapleglo with black hardware. Bought second hand as it was cheap and all I could afford at the time. Hated the black hardware and it wasn't very jangly. Traded it in for a Charvel Surfcaster which was too jangly!

NelsonP

I'll admit to my guitar choice being heavily influenced by musicians. First one I can remember wanting is Slash's les paul. Have never owned a pucker Les Paul, although I did recently buy a Les Paul Jr DC.

Then Vai's JEM. Couldn't afford it so bought an RG750 after playing about 100 different guitars.
Shiflett tele: Tried, liked, bought. 
Gary Clark Casino: Bought unseen on the internet. Liked.

What I really love is how I justify being such an artist fanboy with my guitar purchasing:
1. The sig models are usually very good guitars and often come with features that are not available elsewhere (e.g. Shiflett has regular humbuckers, flatter fretboard, GCJ Casino has Gibson p'ups, switchcraft switch and jack)
2. They make me play better, because mojo etc.
3. No-one other than guitarists knows or cares that they are signature models. Most sigs have no real visible sign of them being a signature guitar. Many guitarists don't know either.