How old were you when you picked your first guitar up and what kind was it?

pes_laul · June 15th, 2007, 07:38 PM

I first started skiddle diddling on my dads whatever brand acoustic then when i was 8 he got me a squire affinity strat wich is still the one i use today.

**WackyT** · June 15th, 2007, 07:45 PM

Age: 41 (about 2 months ago)
Type: Fullerton Strat clone

**DaveO** · June 15th, 2007, 08:40 PM

17 (about 100 years ago). On a borrowed Harmony acoustic.
One of these days I am going to learn to really play.
Dave

**tot_Ou_tard** · June 15th, 2007, 09:30 PM

44; 1 & 1/2 years ago: Godin Radiator & Godin SD. Still my only guitars.

**Big K** · June 15th, 2007, 09:59 PM

19 and a mid- 60's Fender Mustang

**sunvalleylaw** · June 15th, 2007, 10:08 PM

About 38, having a received a Joshua acoustic as a gift. Plunked on that awhile then basically put it away a few years until starting lessons about a year and a month ago. Playing nearly every day, if only for just a little, since.

Robert**** · June 15th, 2007, 10:25 PM

I was thirteen, and I picked up a guitar from a post order company called "Hobbex" (http://www.hobbex.se/). Complete piece of crap, but I was bitten by the guitar bug, and I upgraded to what I think was a black Stagg, a Les Paul copy.

**sunvalleylaw** · June 15th, 2007, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by Robert

I was thirteen, and I picked up a guitar from a post order company called "Hobbex" (http://www.hobbex.se/). Complete piece of crap, but I was bitten by the guitar bug, and I upgraded to what I think was a black Stagg, a Les Paul copy.

Ok, the question is begging to be asked. How long until you switched to primarily strats from the LP copy? This is fun! Good to know some of this history about each other.

Robert**** · June 15th, 2007, 10:35 PM

Hmm, good question, Steve! I don't really know. I had a bunch of different type of guitars until I got a strat. I had a strat when I was 17 or so, then I got rid of it and didn't get one until I was in my early twenties. I need to sit down some day and write down all the guitars I can remember I've had.

**sunvalleylaw** · June 15th, 2007, 10:38 PM

It would be fun to see that list sometime!

Spudman*** · June 15th, 2007, 11:15 PM

I don't even know the name of the acoustic, but it was bigger than I was and it was the same year that man first walked on the moon...that we know of.

**Tone2TheBone** · June 16th, 2007, 12:21 AM

When I was 13 my uncle Freddy Ray gave me a really cool but old Stella acoustic (made by Harmony)...it was a black and reddish sunburst with wonderful tone. He taught me how to tune it and from there I learned how to tune my guitar to the "radio" to play along with songs I wanted to learn.

**Jimi75** · June 16th, 2007, 03:45 AM

13/14 years old

White Synsonic STRAT-type guitar with Maple neck and black pickguard

Squier 15w amp - one channel

one curly cable

no strap

three picks

Book for starters with a felxible vinyl, if you remember those LPs....

**DaveO** · June 16th, 2007, 04:39 AM

Cool. Those little flexible records that came in books. I haven't seen one of those in years.

marnold*** · June 16th, 2007, 09:52 AM

I was 13, I think. The guitar was a POS rental acoustic from the music store. I hated it, it hated me, and my parents wouldn't get me an electric. I eventually got my own cheap POS acoustic that gradually fell apart. When I was 18 I got my first bass, which was also a cheap POS that weighed a ton. A couple of years later, I traded it in for a Peavey Fury p-bass. I foolishly sold that upon graduation from the Sem. Duh! I got my first electric when I was 31.

**ShortBuSX** · June 16th, 2007, 01:24 PM

I was about 8 or 9...Id gotten bored with (breaking the strings on)the plastic toy novelty guitars and begged my parents to get me a real one...which I had to agree to leasons and that Id take it seriously. The dreams of being a rockstar came early for me...I agreed to the leasons, but had no idea what I was getting myself into. My first guitar was a nylon stringed beginner acoustic, the leasons followed. At first I was realy anxious to begin...but Mel Bay ruined whatever fun Id previously thought playing guitar would be...all the songs that Id hated as a kid I was now being taught how to play...wonderful songs that inspire children to takeup musical instruments, classics like Kumbiya, Shell Be coming Around The Mountain...terrible songs that annoy me to this day. I tired of the lessons, but not quite as soon as my teacher had...then he made a deal with me, that he wouldnt tell my parents I hadnt been practicing if I didnt tell them I wasnt learning anything...but I guess his concious got the best of him, because it wasnt long before he told my parents and the gig was up.

Bout 3 years later I was intorduced to the music of Motly Crue and Ratt and was inspired to buy an electric guitar with my own money(actually my parents matched my funds)...but this time without strings attached and on my own terms. Lessons did follow, but this time around learning songs I wanted to with the aid of "tabs" which seemed like a relitively new way of learning at the time. I played till I was 16 or so and then moved on to other hobbies and past times...I felt like Id hit a plateu and wasnt getting any better, my tastes in music were evolving. Id pick up my guitar every once again, but only as a temporary escape or challenge to test my memory and see if I still had the dexterity.

It wasnt till my birthday last year before Id even considered buying another guitar and taking it seriously again. I dont think Id be as into it if it werent for the internet and great places to learn stuff quickly, like here at the Fret or the Telecaster forum...or the hundreds of readily available tab sites.
AND people like ROBERT and DVM!

duhvoodooman*** · June 16th, 2007, 02:13 PM

My first was a total POS Kay acoustic with an action so high you could fly a small airplane under the strings and not hit the body. Sunburst finish, I remember. I was 15, and the first song I learned the chords to was Louie Louie, mostly 'cuz Smoke on the Water hadn't been written yet! LOL!! After that, I had an Epiphone acoustic for a while, then sold that and bought a Guild flattop that I had for several years; nice guitar. I didn't get my first electric until I got out of college and started working--an antique white Strat with a maple neck; real Hendrix-y guitar. Too bad I couldn't play like him!

**chordshredder** · June 16th, 2007, 02:36 PM

My first a Kent single pickup, sort like a strat. Got it around age 13. Once, I was waiting for my guitar teacher, he shows up with three guys who had vapor locked their van. They got his interest because of the guitar cases in back and invited them to see the guitars he built. I visited with the first guy, his name was Tommy Shannon, then Stevie Ray came back out after the drummer went in to get him. He played a few licks on it. They werent famous yet. Crappy cheap guitar but will never part with it.

**Plank_Spanker** · June 16th, 2007, 02:37 PM

12 years old when I bought my first guitar, a Framus Jazzmaster copy. I played the hell out of this guitar for years before I moved on..............

...........................and I still own it:

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