What was your very first electric guitar

[Strawfields]

I actually found a website with my first guitar on it ... they class it as rare vintage and want $399 ... shame I covered mine in gin, set it on fire and smashed it off a wall.

[Yoni]

A gibson sonex 180 deluxe from my cousin that committed suicide.

[jefrs]

Hmm, I electrified an acoustic with a home-made pickup made from three large solenoids and two alnico speaker magnets (!) but the first electric that I bought and owned ca.1974 was a thing made by 'Top Gear', essentially a mustang with a T-shaped semi-solid plywood bendy body and grotty controls, fortunately no pics...
However the neck was quite nice and the pickups I re-wound and so grafted them onto a nice piece of African timber. It's in its third or fourth incarnation as a sort of Jagstangenstien.
The second electric was a s/h 12-string semi Yamaha (the 6-string version to be seen adorning the neck of a certain Mr B.Weedon in his famous book), virtually unplayable with all 12-strings on and a fair bit wider than my mate's stereo Verithin, so 6/12 + Bigsby :-

The controls of both have been altered (again) since the pics were taken

[Tim Armstrong]

My brother Mike sold me his Hagstrom II and little Univox practice amp (solid-state, and utterly lame, even if it DID have tremelo and reverb) in 1976 or so, for $100.

My SECOND electric guitar was a mid-70s Telecaster Deluxe, bought in 1979 from a friend of Mike, for $100. Definitely an upgrade! Even better, Mike let me borrow his SF Deluxe Reverb for about five years (silly me, I thought he GAVE it to me until the day he reclaimed it!).

Cheers, Tim

[crowenor]

Bought my first electric guitar from the Navy Exchange in 1968, a Teisco Del Ray with a Checkmate amp. It was kind of Stratesque in a funny way. I learned a on that old P.O.S. so I guess it served me well.

[Tony474]

My first electric was a secondhand 1950s "blonde" Höfner President - a lot of British guys of a certain age got started on Höfners. After a while I foolishly let someone else play it, who promptly dropped it, causing the notoriously weak neck joint to come apart.

Luckily it was insured, and though it was actually a very easy repair (just required re-gluing), I talked my local music-shop owner into writing a note to the insurance company saying otherwise, because I fancied a nice Club 60, in cherry sunburst with a "pearl" pickguard, that was on his wall; a deal was struck accordingly.

That Club 60 was my second electric guitar and I later installed a Bigsby on it. It was a very pretty instrument and earned me some nice pocket-money doing gigs while I was still at school.

[andrewb]

thats not fair... im only a youngster lol....


my first... ibanez rg170 :)

i have it here.... it needs help :( warped neck....

[Telemaniac]

Ibanez copy of a Tele Custom, black with maple neck, about 1973-4. I've been looking for one for years, just because I would like one for old times' sake. Second was a Les Paul deluxe, Goldtop, miniHBs. I've managed to get one of those again for the same reason.

[Jode]

1993 Japanese Squier Silver Series Strat... haven't needed to buy another strat since, and don't expect to...

[hollowman]

the first electric I actually owned was a mid 90's Tele Deluxe Plus, with the 3 lace sensors and the contour back. Loved the playability, but never bonded with the lace sensors... I sold it to buy a 74 tele custom (still have it)

prior to that had a early 80's MIJ strat that I that a buddy gave me. After becoming wise to the zen of all things Tele, I gave it back to him..

[Drunkinminer]

Believe it or not this is my first electric guitar 07 MIM. Call me a late bloomer.

[rextasy]

'60s or '70s Teisco strat style with rocker and slider switches. Action was so high it was a wonder I was able to trade it for something better before I gave up learning to play.

I knew at least two people who had Peavey t-60s. They must've sold a million of those things.

[Dan German]

I got two electrics at very close to the same time, so I don't actually recall which came first. One was a Vox Super Lynx that needed some work (but was quite playable), the other was a nearly new Gibson Firebrand. Both came to horrible undeserved ends, one at the hands of my buddy's then-girlfriend, the other at the paws of my clumsy stupid dog. I still have pickups and parts from both of them. In fact, the Gibson Dirty Fingers from the Firebrand have lived on in two other guitars.

[dougk]

Grew up playing this:



Dad's original 74 (bought for 200 bucks with a peavy classic 212 back in '80). First guitar I bought myself was my MIJ 56 RI in the mid 90's.



(I think the next one I bought was my Taylor 710CE... worked a long time in the shop for that one...)

[6942]

In 1969....at age 16.....I bought a single PU Teisco E-110 guitar.....and a Teisco Checkmate 88 solid state amp.


Steve

[TeleDrifter]

70's Ibanez Les Paul TV@1978. Bridge P-90 only. Always felt the pickup was weak at the bridge so I didn't play it that often even though it felt great. Couple years ago I finally modded it. Gibson Original-L Humbucker at the bridge, moved the P-90 to the neck. Phase shift the p-90 with a push/pull pot, series with another push/pull pot. Lots a nice tones all these years later. Hope I didn't hurt the value............If so..so what

[jwj4856]

My first electric was a 1965 Silvertone model 1488, also bought a silvertone tube amp with 12" speaker with it. Still have that guitar and play it quite often, it is the red one in this pic. Still looks and plays very good.

[Stubee]

'60s Harmony Rocket here, too. Was my little brothers. He never played it, so I took it and learned on it. First song: simple version of "Like A Rolling Stone", in C.

It wasn't much of a guitar but did sound great one night when I got to play thru a Marshall single stack (about 1971-72). That was "Black Magic Woman" if memory serves me. I got a playable flattop shortly thereafter & started an acoustic-only thing that lasted for about 15-20 years. Yikes!

Don't know whatever happened to the old Rocket, probably gave it to a kid somewhere along the line.

[Dave Hopping]

My first electric was a '58 Esquire,bought new in Feruary '59,and not long after redone by a friend in copper.In the first pic(taken December 1960) I'm on the right,and the tweed amp behind the drummer is a '60 Deluxe,owned by Ted McSherry,seen on the left playing a 1 PU Dano-Silvertone.About 6 months after the first pic was taken I brush-painted(!) the Esquire back fairly close to the stock color.
I'm on the left in the second pic(taken May '62).The backline L to R-my '61 Ampeg Reverberocket,A '60 Silvertone 2-12,owned by Dave Deacon,seen playing the Les Paul Special,and a '61 Tremolux(with ONE 10" speaker) owned by Gene Trach,seen playing a '59-'60 P-bass.
I lived in Toronto during those years.Area players will be interested to know that the piano player whose face is too-neatly obscured by my right elbow is Doug "Mister Music" Riley.

[3 Chord Hippie]

1968 a Teisco E-100 1965 model, the cheapest they made. You could drive a truck under the action, as the song says played it till my fingers bled, bought an identical one still in the original box last summer from fleabay, not the cheapest guitar in the stable anymore.