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Post subject: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 6:31 am
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Like the heading says, do you remember what your very 1st electric guitar and amp set up were ? With today's vintage market I wish I still had mine. It was a brand new, Fender Bronco with the single pickup along with the amp by the same name, which my mom and step dad bought me, way back in 1972. I was only 13 and we used to have a store here called " Heroux's Music " which was the only Fender dealer around and besides gear, they also sold 45's and Lp's as well. For you youngsters out there , LP's mean 33 LP vinyl records and not Les Pauls. LOL. I had that set up until around 1985 or so, when I sold it so that I could get some better gear. To this day, I'm kicking myself in the butt for that.


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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 9:02 am
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This '66 Guild Starfire IV with Bigsby that my dad bought for me new in '66, and I still own.
My first amp was a Univox combo with volume and tone control, and I had to ask my friend what to do with the tone control. :D

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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 9:19 am
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I'm pretty sure it was a Silvertone amp & guitar.

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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 9:56 am
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My first electric I got brand new about 1968. It was a Japanese made three p/u guitar (only two of which actually worked) branded "Prestige" with high, fingertip-damaging action in an awful looking mustard yellow sunburst. I plugged it into an old Alamo tube amp.

Wish I had pics of my old gear.


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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:40 am
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A sort-of-pear-shaped DIY-by-a-friend HH-pickup electric guitar in 3TSB (black-green-yellow), which probably weighed 10 kg (22 lb).
It was r e a l l y hideous (probably inspired by Vox Teardrop, but came out a lot uglier) and "somewhat" hard to play.
But to my ears it sounded great (=loud), and it taught me the basics in both playing and adjusting/modding.

My family's old Telefunken Opus tube radio became my first guitar amp when I added the guitar input - with DIN-connectors, and absolutely no knowledge of electricity or safety. I still wonder how it never even blew a fuse.


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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:04 pm
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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:09 pm
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An Ibanez RG3, and a Vox VT20+. Still have both.


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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:33 pm
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A homemade Strat copy in Dulux pillar box red , complete with a working homemade tremolo system and single Vox pickup and a Watkins Westminster 5 watt valve amp

I quickly graduated to a Rosetti Airstream2 and a watkins 17 watt all valve dominator
(wish I still had that , the reissues are selling for just under £1000)

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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:43 pm
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My first electric guitar was made from the neck and body from different guitars. A friend wanted the other halves to make a guitar, and I got the castoffs. It worked...mostly. It would have worked better as a canoe paddle, but it was an electric guitar. Then, after about a year of hacking away at it, I bought my first Strat.

My first amp is a different story. Ampeg Gemini II...great amp, paid about $150 for it in 1975, wish I still had it.

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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 7:19 pm
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A fender , made in Mexico HSS Stratocaster and a Super champ XD . I bought them new in 2010 and still have both . Before that it was all acoustic , um , ocassionally , well in all honesty , i played rarely.


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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:14 pm
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1992 MIM std strat in lake placid blue. Pearloid scratplate loaded with Texas Specials. Going through a Princeton Chorus amp. Man i loved that guitar.
Why oh why did i ever sell it?


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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 2:53 am
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Black Fender standard Tele and Blues Jr. amp that was purchased about 1997,...wish I still had both. What I miss most is the Tele,though!

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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 6:55 am
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My first electric was a weird copy of a Fender Jaguar (I assume) and was called "Regent" that I bought from a middle school friend back in the early 70's, back in like 7th grade or something. It didn't have toggle switches, but on/off sliders for each pickup.

My first amp was a horrible solid state amp with an 8" speaker out of a Sears catalog, also from the early 70's. Volume and tone control, and nothing else.

As a young kid who's parents HATED rock 'n roll, you just had to make due with what you received. :oops:


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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 7:26 am
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2011 American Standard black Lefty Strat and Fender Blues Deluxe RI

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Post subject: Re: What was your very 1st electric guitar and amp ?
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 7:56 am
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it was around 1962....

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