Show us your first proper electric guitar

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freakboy1610;124528" said:

I had an Audition like this one. I think they sold them in Woolies but I got mine in 1984 for £15 from a teacher at school who was emigrating. Only one pickup worked and it sounded even worse than it looked but WTF it was an electric guitar and I didn't know any better. I sanded it down, sprayed it red and bought a nice red curly lead to match!

Yes - 

Lots of Teisco info here - Audition was Woolies own brand name for these Teisco amps and guitars - are now collectable...

http://www.mark-cole.co.uk/teisco/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9N1bRXgWX8

stonevibe

Both bought in 86 /87 ish

My first 'proper' guitar was a black and white '86 Japanese Fender 57 reissue that I paid £135 for.  Luckily I had some serious mates rates and it was brand new from Soho Soundhouse.

It was so good I bought a sunburst one a few months later (which got caught in a house fire).  Bought that one via Loot from a guy in Hammersmith. Paid about £200 for it as it had a case.

Which is probably why I still gravitate towards Strats.

There are pictures of it somewhere around on this very forum.

Before that I had a load of old shite including an Encore and a Les Paul Custom plywood oar etc etc

koneguitarist

Did anyone say Avon Les Paul copy ? This was my Brothers 2nd guitar which I used to play a lot. http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/bargoedboy/mewithavonlespaulcopy1978.jpg Sorry about the shirt but it was the 70's !

xSkarloey

DiscoStu;125030" said:

So nobody had a Marlin Sidewinder???

I had a Marlin. It was a black Strat-o-like called a Slammer.

I think it was third or fourth hand by the time I got it. Being a left hander and having next to no dough I did a Jimi Hendrix. No way did I sound like him sadly.

It weighed a ton. Curiously when I A/B'd it through my Tandy (!!!) practice amp against a real Strat, the Marlin was louder.

The pickups were so microphonic that you could sing through them. I once made the mistake of putting it through my Boss Heavy Metal pedal and turning all the controls up to max. The guitar sounded awful on that occasion but Radio Moscow came through great.

bigjon

JookyChap said:

My first guitar was the red one on this sorry advert - £39 out of melody maker iirc

http://i629.photobucket.com/albums/uu15/erikryman/Axe-Guitar-Advert.jpg

Another red 'Axe' owner reporting for duty - bought the pack off a friend for £35 in ?1989. Here's a pic of me playing it in 1993, to the soundtrack of a guitar solo I recorded with it around that time.

bigjon

DiscoStu said:My first guitar was an Axe too, except mine was the first version. White with 'Axe' in big black writing across the body, it was a plywood abomination but it got me started! I think it was £89 from an advert in Kerrang and came with a tiny practice amp (probably 1W) whose tone can best be described as 'a bee in a jam jar'.

My red Axe also had the Axe logo in big black writing, hence the Blue-Peter-style sticky black plastic lightning bolts you can see in the pic above

Skipped

1st guitar and amp. Both long gone. I don't feel sentimental about the Roger Rossmeisl  guitar even though the neck was truly astonishing and played like B.....
But I would love to still have that  amp today.

bertie

depends what you define as "proper"   it will probably mean many things to many age-groups

usedtobe

Cheer up you miserable bastard!

bertie

serious question................what are the criteria that make it "proper" ?    known name ?   plays OK ?   giggable ? sellable ?

vasselmeyer

"proper" is in the eye of the holder. I started the thread with my Hohner. I started playing guitar on a dreadful acoustic but wanted to move on to an electric. It was a decent enough instrument for the mid 1980s so I deem it "proper". Some of the other instruments on the thread are clearly worse instruments but their owners deem them "proper".

Doug

A black Westbury Standard was my first 'proper guitar', but due to GAS, it's long gone, cost around £100 used at the time, another great guitar I should have kept. One on ebay atm pic/not mine.

d8m

(web pic)

Thru Neck with Floyd Rose Bridge.

Real nice guitar that looking back I regret selling.

ChrisMusic

Hey @d8m, I'll bet it's hell getting up the stairs in your house...    

d8m

ChrisMusic said:

Hey @d8m, I'll bet it's hell getting up the stairs in your house...    

Currently live on the third floor and there isn't a lift so coming back from the supermarket is always interesting

As for that pic though its actually just a pic of the net of the guitar as I don't have any pics of my own.

That said if the person who took this picture needs their stairs cleared of ill happily take the guitar of their hands!