What did you learn on?

[Chuck8436]

This was what I had when I started out in high school. I remember not knowing how to “make that rock sound” back then. I didn’t know what distortion was. A buddy of mine gave me a DS-1, that was my first pedal. But for months, it was just these:


Those aren’t mine, just pics I found online. What about you all?

 

[JJ119]

I had a Gorilla Amp that was fun to play through. Then I got an Ibanez Flanger and had a blast. The Flanger was stolen about a year after I got it.
Amp.has been lost after several moves.


My 1st guitar which I still have and Love.
Put it on Lay A Way with my 1st paycheck.

 

[NobodyReally]

An old junk acoustic with mile high action. I don't remember what kind it was. My uncle gave it to me in 1988.

 

[Seamus OReally]

A vacuum-formed plastic guitar, with plastic friction tuners, plastic frets, and and a tiny plastic amplifier with an attached button mic that stuck to the guitar with a suction cup. My dad, a notorious skinflint, told me if I learned to play it, we’d see about something better.

 

[Chuck8436]

I had a Gorilla Amp that was fun to play through. Then I got an Ibanez Flanger and had a blast. The Flanger was stolen about a year after I got it.
Amp.has been lost after several moves.

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My 1st guitar which I still have and Love.
Put it on Lat A Way with my 1st paycheck.

That’s an awesome first guitar

 

[Maranello94]

This was what I had when I started out in high school. I remember not knowing how to “make that rock sound” back then. I didn’t know what distortion was. A buddy of mine gave me a DS-1, that was my first pedal. But for months, it was just these:
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Those aren’t mine, just pics I found online. What about you all?

Same guitar as you with 15W Hughes & Kettner amp

 

[Chuck8436]

Same guitar as you with 15W Hughes & Kettner amp

Same age, same guitar. What a coincidence. Was yours black too?

 

[ajb1965]

You're gonna laugh at this one.. Back in the mid 70's my first guitar was a Hohner Tele copy and I used my dad's old (1960's old) Akai reel to reel tape deck that had a tube pre and power amp and speakers on the top. It sounded like 4 big muffs wired in series when the input gain was cranked. It was soooo nasty. For my wah sound I'd plug the headphones in and put my foot over one of the cups and raise and lower it. Ahh the good old days....

 

[rolandson]

Then I...got to

 

[Chuck8436]

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I meant guitar, but that’s still awesome. I had a Yamaha tenor sax when I was a kid too. I knew how to play that before guitar

 

[Chuck8436]

You're gonna laugh at this one.. Back in the mid 70's my first guitar was a Hohner Tele copy and I used my dad's old (1960's old) Akai reel to reel tape deck that had a tube pre and power amp and speakers on the top. It sounded like 4 big muffs wired in series when the input gain was cranked. It was soooo nasty. For my wah sound I'd plug the headphones in and put my foot over one of the cups and raise and lower it. Ahh the good old days.... View attachment 648672

That’s actually pretty cool!

 

[rolandson]

I meant guitar, but that’s still awesome. I had a Yamaha tenor sax when I was a kid too. I knew how to play that before guitar

My first guitar is the classical. But I wasn't permitted until I had demonstrated an aptitude for music, as evidenced by the assortment of instruments that marked my journey.

Except the accordion. That thing met with an untimely end (though I thought it extremely timely). It fell into a lake. Totally by accident and not on purpose.

 

[3bolt79]

This was what I had when I started out in high school. I remember not knowing how to “make that rock sound” back then. I didn’t know what distortion was. A buddy of mine gave me a DS-1, that was my first pedal. But for months, it was just these:
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Those aren’t mine, just pics I found online. What about you all?

Samick Bennet design?

 

[3bolt79]

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Then I...got to

So you expect us to think you’re a real musician just because you play an accordion? Ha ha! This is my late Grandfather’s first cousin. Rocky LJ Rambousek

 

[3bolt79]

@rolandson all those guys are dead now. He was big in North Dakota though. In the 70’s.

 

[Neil.C]

Started off with an un named cheap acoustic and then advanced to electric, which were:

An Avon Les Paul copy and a Fal Minstrel amp - both horrible.

 

[Maranello94]

Same age, same guitar. What a coincidence. Was yours black too?

Haha Sadly nor, it was a sunburst

 

[wooders]

Still have the lovely lady. We've been together 25years.

 

[3bolt79]

I started playing in 1983. My first guitar of any kind was an Ibanez RS100. And I had a Peavey Decade amp.

Almost immediately after I got it, like within a couple of months, I got a cheap Classical guitar with a cardboard case.

First song I learned was this…


And the first piece I learned on the Classical was this…And yes I learned the intro via sheet music.

 

[Quikstyl]

This was what I had when I started out in high school. I remember not knowing how to “make that rock sound” back then. I didn’t know what distortion was. A buddy of mine gave me a DS-1, that was my first pedal. But for months, it was just these:
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Those aren’t mine, just pics I found online. What about you all?

Circa 1987/1988