General Music Chat

My mom got me an acoustic when I was 12. The strings were 2" off the surface and it was impossible to play past the 2nd fret! I was so glad when my sister sat on it and broke it because mom had to replace it. Even that was a cheap electric, I could at least play it.

At age 14, I had my tonsils taken out and dad got me a GIBSON MELODY MAKER to cheer me up. It did the trick, but I also got a Les Paul bass and a Silverstone 100watt amp with it....score!!


What was your first guitar?

Your first electric?

Your first GOOD guitar?


Your first amp?


Do you still have any of them?

Stella acoustic. Cost me five bucks and a couple hits of speed. Graduated quickly to a Mosrite knockoff that wasn't half bad.

Kingston Bass through a Silvertone amp - blew it up of course.

Mostly Fender guitars and basses since then with exception of my beloved Firebird.

"For all the girls I loved before..."

Talbot

Aria acoustic - new- for $40. My grandfather gave me the money for my 14th birthday.

First electric - still have it, my 72 Tele. FIrst amp was a Traynor bass amp with a 2x12 cab. Definitely tamed the brightness of the Tele!

Haven't heard the word "Hagstrom" in a while.


I gave my '64 Melody Maker to my oldest son for his 18th birthday and he sold it before he was 19...so be glad your son still holds on.

First violin was a Roth Stradivarius copy, First acoustic guitar was a PAN nylon string classical, first electric guitar was a Tiesco, first amp was a 2x12 50 watt Sun Combo!

most excellent thread ted, thanks.

thanks for giving us an op to talk music and gear and take five away from sniping and bickering!

What was your first guitar?

MADERIA A-12 12 string dreadnaught w adjustable bridge saddle and zero fret (two features i LOVE)....Madeira was Guild's "import line"....first produced in Japan and later in Korea. they were really some sleeper gtrs w great bang for the buck. (jook, am i right..or am i right?)

Your first electric?

an early 70's blond tele.....wish i still had it.

Your first GOOD guitar?

the MADERIRA. i went into the music store to buy a gtr and knew very liitle about gtrs and nothing about 12 strings. i saw that A-12 hanging up and asked to see it. the salesman took it down and before handing it to me played it a little. i was BLOWN away at how good he was....then i took it, strummed a few chords and realized....WHOA...it's the GUITAR that sounds sooooo damn good. i REALLY wish i still had that.

as some of you know...i'm a total GUILD head and own 4 of 'em now....i'd love to add a MADEIRA A-12.

about a month later i got myself a HARMONY 5 string banjo.


Your first amp?

FENDER BASSMAN Head w 2x12 cab....long gone. another item i wish i still had.


Do you still have any of them?

i wish!

First violin was a Roth Stradivarius copy, First acoustic guitar was a PAN nylon string classical, first electric guitar was a Tiesco, first amp was a 2x12 50 watt Sun Combo!

Those 50watt Sun combos rocked. Did your's go to 11?

You mentioned maybe picking up the violin again recently. I bet that's why you're so fast. Have you?

most excellent thread ted, thanks.

thanks for giving us an op to talk music and gear and take five away from sniping and bickering!

What was your first guitar?

MADERIA A-12 12 string dreadnaught w adjustable bridge saddle and zero fret (two features i LOVE)....Madeira was Guild's "import line"....first produced in Japan and later in Korea. they were really some sleeper gtrs w great bang for the buck. (jook, am i right..or am i right?)

Your first electric?

an early 70's blond tele.....wish i still had it.

Your first GOOD guitar?

the MADERIRA. i went into the music store to buy a gtr and knew very liitle about gtrs and nothing about 12 strings. i saw that A-12 hanging up and asked to see it. the salesman took it down and before handing it to me played it a little. i was BLOWN away at how good he was....then i took it, strummed a few chords and realized....WHOA...it's the GUITAR that sounds sooooo damn good. i REALLY wish i still had that.

as some of you know...i'm a total GUILD head and own 4 of 'em now....i'd love to add a MADEIRA A-12.

about a month later i got myself a HARMONY 5 string banjo.


Your first amp?

FENDER BASSMAN Head w 2x12 cab....long gone. another item i wish i still had.


Do you still have any of them?

i wish!

Oh, man....I had one of those bassman 50w 2x12 in the 70s. Traded it in on a musicman amp that was better, but still wish I had kept that one.

And probably the best guitar I ever had was a Guild steel-top. Don't even remember the model number but I brought it to a music store one day and someone fell in love with it.

Before I left that store he had given me $1,000 cash and about 4k worth of PA. Just couldn't turn it down...



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I played both services and intermission today. But wait, there's more! I got to play with a violinist which really made my day. She, the drummer and I went off to place that really well, struck a chord, without deviating from the theme.

And I played standing up like a man for the first time in year! The Lord is good.

Talbot

#1 $13.00 Stella acoustic. You could limbo between the fingerboard and the strings.

In 1959 I put an AM single transistor transmitter in a shipmates guitar so he could hear it over his portable AM radio. It was Nothing more than a single transistor oscillator with a crystal mike modulating the signal inside the guitar. It was tuned by a variable cap in the oscillator circuit. I thought it was so cool I ran out and bought a guitar so I could make one for myself. Then after I bought it a brainstorm hit me. It dawned on me that I couldn't play a note. What was I going to do, hold it up and bang on the strings to show off my wireless guitar?

An old colored boy played blues guitar so I asked him to show me the beginning line of "honky Tonk". After I learned that I went back for the second line. Many bleeding bloody split fingertips later I had learned the beginning. Then I went out to buy something that could actually be played. A Gibson Melody Maker. I was so excited that I could play a few songs I had completely forgotten about why I bought the Stella in the first place.

#2 Gibson single pickup Melody Maker.along with a 50 Watt Supro Guitar amp

I got to play with a violinist which really made my day. She, the drummer and I went off to place that really well, struck a chord, without deviating from the theme.

Violin/fiddle is one of those instruments....in the hands of someone who can't play, yikes! But someone that CAN... whoa!

Like a horn, it's capable of being so expressive.

We have a great fiddler/violinist who plays in Mere Mortals (she also sings great and plays really strong rhythm gtr).

And I played standing up like a man for the first time in year! The Lord is good.

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