Does anyone else celebrate their guitar anniversary?

[smsuryan]

My father taught me my first chords this day 21 years ago. Its my own little private holiday. I can still remember: it was a Wednesday afternoon in 1991... open G, open A, open D, a few others.
Then he turned on country music videos and started playing the rhythm parts just watching the tv not knowing the tunes. At the time, that just blew me away!
A vivid memory to me, but im sure hes forgotten. Anyone else celebrate/remember their own...ummm..holiday? I think ill just have a nice scotch when i get off work and reflect. If youre in southern missouri stop in and buy me a round...
Have a seat and pull up a memory or two with me.

[stnmtthw]

Cool story! I can't remember the exact date, but I remember it was the summer of 1995. My sisters husbands dad (catch that?) Was cleaning out his garage and found an old Epiphone acoustic and a book of chords... he told me if I learned to play it I could have it...

And I was off...

[beep.click]

My keyboard player friend celebrates the anniversary of his first piano lesson, every year.

[joaopazguitar]

great stories, guys, keep em coming!

I don't recall the original date, but I was probably 8-9... we were at an anniversary party at our cousins. there were always someone's birthday and we went there a lot. I wasn't much into the party stuff and used to escape upstairs to the empty rooms.
there I found a lot of Tintin books (became a huge fan!) and a small acoustic guitar. and that was it... I was never seen again downstairs
a few birthdays later I ended up bringing that guitar home with me! I wish I knew where it is today... I vaguely remember giving it to another cousin many years later.
the guitar was terrible but I didn't wat to know, I played it all the time.

then at 11 I went in camping a trip with a church group and learned a few proper songs! wow. when I arrived home I played them all to my parents, and in the evening my father took me to a store and brought me a proper DiGiorgio acoustic guitar!

that one I still have, but in need of a few restoring miracles - and I'll get there. this DiGiorgio I always considered "my first Guitar!"

so that was... some 40 years ago.

[stevieboy]

No, but my first guitar cries every year and won't speak to me for a week for forgetting.

[promagnum]

No, but come to think of it, tomorrow (Aug 8th) is the anniversary of me buying my Jazzmaster in 2008. It was made on May 17, 2008.

[6942]

My Grandparents bought me an acoustic guitar for my birthday....in 1967.


Steve

[Rolling Estonian]

Tell him that story.

M

[danieljaypark]

I got my first electric on 7-7-07

[emu!]

Years ago, this girl broke up with me. It upset me so much, I decided I had to buy myself something to ease the pain...so, I purchased a cheapo Tele ($150.00). The receipt is crumpled up and stuffed in the control cavity. I eventually got over her, but everytime I look at that guitar, I have to smile.

[joaopazguitar]

Originally Posted by emu!

Years ago, this girl broke up with me. It upset me so much, I decided I had to buy myself something to ease the pain...so, I purchased a cheapo Tele ($150.00). The receipt is crumpled up and stuffed in the control cavity. I eventually got over her, but everytime I look at that guitar, I have to smile.

nothing like a true story!
and everything's a good reason to buy a new Tele!

[Red Square]

First acoustic, 12/25/65
First electric, 12/19/66

Don't celebrate though...it would probably make more sense to mourn...
; )

[gitold]

It was the summer of 69 (really) I was 15. My older brother left home and left his little all mahogany Gibson acoustic at the house so I started to try to play along with the blues records I was listening to. Lots of BB and Bloomfield . I actually thought I invented the blues box that summer and figured out how to play along in different keys. My mom heard me playing along and asked me how I had learned to play guitar. That winter I talked her into going to a music store with me and signing up for payment plans on a new Tele. I was a big Joe Walsh fan and had to have a Tele. I went to Joe Favas music store on 8 mile in Detroit and found the Tele I wanted, a brand new 69. The salesman told me that for 3 dollars more a month I could get the top of the line Jazzmaster. I had never seen one before but it looked like a rocket ship and had way more buttons and knobs and one of them there wang bars. I was hooked and went home with a brand new(sitting around the store for 4 years because nobody wanted it) 65 Jazzmaster. I only know it was a 65 because it had dots and binding on the neck. When I got home my brothers and their friends all made fun of me telling me that Jazzmasters were corny guitars for Lawrence Welk music and I could have got a Les Paul for the $369 I paid for the Jazzmaster. I loved that guitar though and slept with it, polished it every day. With my borrowed Ampeg Gemini 6 I had nothing but clean headroom for days. I've had a pretty clean style ever since starting off with that rig. Traded the Jazz for a Ovation a few years later. Hey it was an acoustic guitar that you could play electric...What a concept.

[bowman]

Those first guitar memories are way too fuzzy to recall. I'm one of those guys who always had a guitar under the bed when he was a kid; I'd play it for a couple of months, then put it back there for a few months. Repeat as necessary. Eventually I decided to just learn to play it, came to love it, and here I am now - wasting time on sites like this!

[cband7]

The closest I get is the day I found out about DADGAD tuning.




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[P Thought]

Originally Posted by emu!

Years ago, this girl broke up with me. It upset me so much, I decided I had to buy myself something to ease the pain...so, I purchased a cheapo Tele ($150.00). The receipt is crumpled up and stuffed in the control cavity. I eventually got over her, but everytime I look at that guitar, I have to smile.

My second guitar, the one I've had the longest, comes with a similar story, though the girl was my wife, and the guitar was a nylon-string acoustic. The receipt's still inside it.

[don71]

Cool story. If you had not brought up the subject (thread)I would have forgotten the timeing.

Four years for me. Someone let me borrow an acoustic guitar that has led to many discoverys. Three months later I bought a tele and used SS amp.

Thank you Matt, where ever you are.

I don't know exactly why I started when I did, But I know I allways wanted too.

Thanks for sharing.

[Tdub]

I don't really celebrate it, but I do know the date (November 3rd, 1979). I wrote on my calendar hanging in my room "Got Guitar!". Prior to that I only held a guitar 2 or 3 times.


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[trev333]

I messed around on other peoples guitars for 10 yrs before I got my first acoustic .. duty free in Singapore '78, still have it too. Ibanez...

back in highschool 70/71-ish, a class mate had a guitar... probably the only one who had one... I used to go around to his house after school to play records and learn stuff on the guitar...

the first song we figured out on the record and could play along to was Julia Dream off the PF Relics LP.... and the major bar chord run down on the Interstellar OD intro..

that was the moment I realised OUR guitar was the same as all the others the rock stars played... and ALL the songs were on there... the mystery was shattered..;)

WE can do this!.... it's all on there.... sweet.... thanks Syd....:)

[IdahoPicker]

My first decent guitar ('76 Les Paul Deluxe) would be surely be something to celebrate. However, you might say another event has trumped it. I found the receipt a while back. The date: 9/11/99.