If you could start over, what guitar and amp would you choose?

Long story short, should have kept the first guitar and amp I had, a drip edge vibro champ and an Ibanez challenger, which was a darn fine Tele copy. Took 30 + years and tens of thousands of dollars, but I pretty much ended up back in that camp anyway with the Telecasters and the Princeton.

 

I've started with Epi Les Paul and Peavey Valveking 50, I should have started with a Telecaster and Fender Pro Jr. or Vox AC (10 or 15) amp Also I would skip all the pedal evaluations, just keep it simple with TS9 and a delay

 

Back in the day my 15 year old self would have moved to be able to have a Les Paul Standard and a JCM800 (although I would have only known it as a Marshall then)

instead I got a first year MIM tele and borrow a squier combo from my brother.

I’ve had many guitars since, Jazzmaster, Strats, Epi les Paul’s, hofners, Kay’s, lots of weird old stuff, but the tele is the one I’ve always had.

If I knew what I did now that Tele would be the guitar

 

If I could start over I'd start when I was 19 instead of 39. And I'd play piano instead of guitar.

 

Nashville Telecaster into Tone King Sky King. I miss the TK Falcon, though!

 

I hadn't thought about the question as, "What if you lost everything you have right now? What would you get first to get up and running again?"

A previous poster apparently took it that way and responded accordingly, so I will too!

I'd get an affordable but kick-ass Bigsby-equipped player-grade Tele (an abused vintage example, a recent model that played nicely, partscaster, whatever, with conventional or boutique single-coil pickups, depending on what's available); a Deluxe Reverb (probably a RI, maybe a banged-up SF, but maybe a Quilter instead, since I live in NYC); a Turbo Tuner; a cheap delay pedal, and some cables.

That's what I use most of the time now, of course.

 

I would have kept my 60s Epiphone.

 

Blackguard and an original Blackface Princeton

 

Deluxe Reverb, and a custom Warmoth body/neck tele partscaster, exactly the way I want it.

 

I wouldn't change a thing - mainly because what I got might change...

 

Well, here's a Fender and a Tele, anyway...

 

Tone King Imperial Mk II + American Elite Series Telecaster Vinatage Cherry Burst.
I currently own the guitar but still vacillating over the Tone King.

 

That's how I answered it. I couldn't affirm either when I re-started seriously. Actually they didn't exist then but you made me think I should just get the TK now since I'm not getting any younger. Thanks.