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Re: What was your 1st good guitar

lol we been hoodwinked, led astray, run amok......you tried to tell us, and if I'd done a little search it was right there.

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Well, I thought that someone would notice that the markings are identical to the one's on Treasure, because this is Treasure. All original, except the wraptail.

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I'm bad! Just wanted to add a little drama. Unless Joe is watching this thread, he's never seen these pictures.

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Must admit, I'm a bit lost on this one.

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redblues wrote:

Must admit, I'm a bit lost on this one.

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I think he means since it's a Firebird single pickup.....from his last reply

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Late to the party but I love 1st guitar threads
My 1st good was a '79 heavy strat that my parents bought me in the fall of '80 for my upcoming HS graduation in '81
Im a horrible son as all I have left is the neck plate,neck pickup & tuning gears .....

But a couple years before that ,while on one of those family vacations that I didnt wanna be on , my dad bought me a bolt on ,plywood Japanese LP Custom Copy ,a MAGNUM . That guitar ended up in the possession of a jr high buddy for 20 years ,but I now take it n the road ...go figure . I was so ashamed of it back in '79 as my school friend all had "real" guitars
Of course now , I play it with great pride

I sort of regret that I was a little too young to be in on that 1st great wave of dept store guitars
By the time i came along ,it was all Japanese (good & bad )
But I was lucky enough to "get" the charm & function of all the Harmony & Kay guitars long before the association with the  Whites & Auerbachs  made the prices go thru the roof

I wrote a little article for the fretboard journal about such ,a couple years ago

http://www.mojomusic.com/alvin/pdf/fret … al2009.pdf

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Alvis X wrote:

Late to the party but I love 1st guitar threads
My 1st good was a '79 heavy strat that my parents bought me in the fall of '80 for my upcoming HS graduation in '81
Im a horrible son as all I have left is the neck plate,neck pickup & tuning gears .....

But a couple years before that ,while on one of those family vacations that I didnt wanna be on , my dad bought me a bolt on ,plywood Japanese LP Custom Copy ,a MAGNUM . That guitar ended up in the possession of a jr high buddy for 20 years ,but I now take it n the road ...go figure . I was so ashamed of it back in '79 as my school friend all had "real" guitars
Of course now , I play it with great pride

I sort of regret that I was a little too young to be in on that 1st great wave of dept store guitars
By the time i came along ,it was all Japanese (good & bad )
But I was lucky enough to "get" the charm & function of all the Harmony & Kay guitars long before the association with the  Whites & Auerbachs  made the prices go thru the roof

I wrote a little article for the fretboard journal about such ,a couple years ago

http://www.mojomusic.com/alvin/pdf/fret … al2009.pdf

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1972 Gibson Les Paul Custom... black
when I was 13 years old. Thank god I had good taste and did not buy a Kramer Eddie Van Halen guitar!

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A 1974 air guitar.Ok Couldn't resist being a smarta** because I don't play .Tried some other instruements in grammer school but playing music never came easy.So I can only live through you all.Wanted to be a bass player later on.


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I played my blind granddad's '51 Martin D28 for a few years, he showed me some chords for a few songs that my small hands could make. Cowboy and campfire songs.  Grandma sold it when he passed. I took up cello. I remember how pretty the dark wood was and how it sounded. It rang like a bell. smile
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RickB wrote:

I played my blind granddad's '51 Martin D28 for a few years, he showed me some chords for a few songs that my small hands could make. Cowboy and campfire songs.  Grandma sold it when he passed. I took up cello. I remember how pretty the dark wood was and how it sounded. It rang like a bell. smile
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..Wow too bad you did not get it , instead of her selling that one..!

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airportdon wrote:
RickB wrote:

I played my blind granddad's '51 Martin D28 for a few years, he showed me some chords for a few songs that my small hands could make. Cowboy and campfire songs.  Grandma sold it when he passed. I took up cello. I remember how pretty the dark wood was and how it sounded. It rang like a bell. smile
I'm a listener now.
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..Wow too bad you did not get it , instead of her selling that one..!

Yeah, it has crossed my mind. It is probably worth a lot now but she needed the money.  I remember the man that bought it was thrilled and payed a lot more than it had cost originally. The sentiment would be worth a lot more and who knows, I might have ended up a player.

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Hmmm...Prolly a L6S Blonde I bought new in the mid 70's

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tag2 wrote:

Hmmm...Prolly a L6S Blonde I bought new in the mid 70's

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I always wanted a L6S...do you still have it ?

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I had one, same all blonde bought in '74 and sold it for next to nothing. Be glad you didn't buy one, not such a great guitar imo. Pretty sure you would hate the neck.

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tag2 wrote:

Hmmm...Prolly a L6S Blonde I bought new in the mid 70's

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I always wanted a L6S...do you still have it ?

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So what was wrong...too small...too big with the neck ...thx for the advice
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ahsmith33 wrote:

I had one, same all blonde bought in '74 and sold it for next to nothing. Be glad you didn't buy one, not such a great guitar imo. Pretty sure you would hate the neck.

airportdon wrote:
tag2 wrote:

Hmmm...Prolly a L6S Blonde I bought new in the mid 70's

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I always wanted a L6S...do you still have it ?

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too small, too thin, don't really remember because I never played that well. However, my friends with LP's, Strats and Firebirds hated it. One of them that played an LP was in a decent band, he picked it up and put it down after about 20 seconds, and never touched it again. I remember that there were only 2 positions on the varitone control, whatever it was called, that sounded good and the rest were pretty much worthless. The super humbuckers were very nice, and loud.

airportdon wrote:

So what was wrong...too small...too big with the neck ...thx for the advice
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ahsmith33 wrote:

I had one, same all blonde bought in '74 and sold it for next to nothing. Be glad you didn't buy one, not such a great guitar imo. Pretty sure you would hate the neck.

airportdon wrote:

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I always wanted a L6S...do you still have it ?

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Well that makes me stop the search for a vintage one....& the reissues L6S are on the crappy side...Thx

ahsmith33 wrote:

too small, too thin, don't really remember because I never played that well. However, my friends with LP's, Strats and Firebirds hated it. One of them that played an LP was in a decent band, he picked it up and put it down after about 20 seconds, and never touched it again. I remember that there were only 2 positions on the varitone control, whatever it was called, that sounded good and the rest were pretty much worthless. The super humbuckers were very nice, and loud.

airportdon wrote:

So what was wrong...too small...too big with the neck ...thx for the advice
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ahsmith33 wrote:

I had one, same all blonde bought in '74 and sold it for next to nothing. Be glad you didn't buy one, not such a great guitar imo. Pretty sure you would hate the neck.

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2001 Gibson SG Standard.  It was my humbucking guitar back in the day and it once again is after a 3 year relocation.  2001 American Series Stratocaster is my main guitar for single coils.  But the SG was first.

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