We talk about that in the full episode. My first electric had a Floyd and yes it was frustrating to learn but there was also value in the time I spent learning how to set it up.
Not just your first guitar. Color and vibe is part of the whole experience . Guitars are works of art and it helps to have strong visual along with the comfort and playability. I call it mojo.
It might be boring but the guitar I thought was cool was a strat. I saw Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii when I was a kid and begged my parents for one. I didn't care about the color or the fingerboard, it just had to be what David Gilmour played. They bought me a black Squier and a book that had a white strat on the cover. I've bought at least half a dozen guitars since then, some of them I still have. I finally bought a white strat like the one on the cover of that book this year and that's the only one I would never consider parting with.
This is great advice. When I started I hated strat style guitars. I thought they looked like cheap toys (mostly because most cheap toys ARE strat style guitars). Finally got to the point in my journey when I realized a Strat was the right tool for the job I was trying to do. But I never would have been inspired to play if I started there.
In the early to mid 2000's, you never saw metal or rock dudes playing Strats. There was something just "not cool" about them. Now, you see them all the time.
100% agree....I always had a thing for hollowbodies, and my first was a 335 style copy from Oscar Schmidt, and it sent me shortly down the line for a white falcon and never looked back!
That is something I agree on 100%. That is why I wanted an SG. A Gibson was way out of my range, but I eventually managed to save up for an Epiphone. I just wanted to play AC/DC and nothing else. I have seen a few cases where the kids want to play hard rock or metal, but the parents insist that they need to learn to play acoustic first. Many of them lost interest after not too long.
They were spoiled brats lol if you’re really hungry and thirsty and crave the experience you’ll play whatever’s given to you just like me I wanted a electric guitar, but my mom said this is what I can afford and this is what you’re gonna get and I was so thankful just to have any guitar to play, but then again I wasn’t some silver spoon fed ⚪️ boi eathier lol 😝
@@Funkyguitarcovers Definitely in several cases. But I also think that some of the parents simply did not want to listen to a beginner guitar player cranking an amplifier in their room. Some also did not want to spend the extra money on something the kids might get tired of after a short while.
@@FunkyguitarcoversIn what world is an acoustic less expensive than an electric? You can have an electric in the style of your choice and a headphone amp for the price of a beginner acoustic. It’s not 1975 any more.
100% agree. Also, if you can afford it, don't feel forced to buy a cheap or "beginners" guitar. Buy whatever you really feel the vibe off. I've heard of so many people who started and stopped again and after seeing their guitar it was no wonder.
I asked for an electric, but was forced to start on acoustic. It killed my passion for years. I finally started to practice when I bought my first electric for myself. I came back to acoustic and fell in love with it about 10 years later, but I desperately wish I had started on electric. I wish I could get those few extra years of playing back.
@@JF96125 I’ve said this ☝🏻 a million times to people - anyone and everyone who has ever asked me what guitar to start on or to buy their kid - to get an electric because it’s got lighter gauge strings, a body size/shape that’s easier to manage, and is going to sound “cooler,” for a kid especially. I was lucky enough to have a smart store owner (and willing guardian) who got me on electric first, and I do think it’s a big part of why I stuck with it. I could play the music I was listening to and use distortion and play power chords and impress my friends…
Lol because you were spoiled ha ha if you really wanted to play, you would’ve been thankful for whatever you had and whatever you were given, you didn’t really wanna play you liked the idea of playing that’s two different things 😂😂😂😂
Lol, do you read what you just wrote? You said you were forced to start on the acoustic but then you said you did not start until you got your electric in the same breath lol and then you said you wish you would’ve started on the electric when you said that you did not start until you had an electric. Boy you make no sense lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And if it was really that serious, you could’ve traded your acoustic for any electric that you can get your hands on or possibly sold it to buy one 😂 😂 keep it real you wanted to look cool and you wanted a specific electric and that’s what it was. You like the idea of playing you did not want to learn to play. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
My first guitar when I was 13 was a Gibson SG I didn’t like it lol I traded it for an RC car no lie. It wasn’t a cheap RC car for its time. I think it was 1982 somewhere around there
After being gifted an Epiphone Special 2 and learning the basics, I was adamant on buying a guitar with a Floyd Rose in it. Everyone advised against it, but I’m glad I did, because it inspired me to keep playing. I learned a lot about harmonics, and a lot about how to properly set up and adjust floating bridges because of that. Now that I’m older, I do gravitate to hard tails for their ability to pick up and play, but it’s nice to not be a stranger to the other side!
I 1000% agree, when I got my first electric guitar I went into a shop and wanted this blue squire and the guy in the shop said no you shouldn’t get that you should get this second hand Yamaha Pacifica which was wooden and no joke weighed about 12 Ibs, I went back to the blue guitar and then he kept insisting on the Yamaha and at the time I thought he’s played guitar for years he probably knows more but in the end I barely played the Yamaha and I know I would have played the squire a lot more
My first guitar - my dad took me to a used instrument shop and record store when I was about 15. I saw a Shergold Custom Masquerader. I didn’t know it was what Bernard Sumner played in Joy Division at this point. But it had loads of switches on it which looked so cool to me. And I didn’t want a strat or a Yamaha Pacifica. I wanted something weirder that no one else had.
My first guitar was a Squier Strat and i never got into it. I then bought an Epiphone LP but it still just wasn't the kind i truly liked and i got that because it was affordable. Like 2 months after i bought that Les Paul, i bought a Mexican Fender Tele that i thought was gorgeous and finally satisfied that guitar itch. I've been more heavily playing this whole year and the rest of last when i got it. Surprisingly that Epiphone Les Paul plays the smoothest on the neck and action.
Agreed. My first electric was a tele, I hated it. My wife got me a purple Slick SL56 Jazzmaster, relatively cheap and fun and I love it. I play it more than my Hagstrom Super Swede or my Mustang. I wanted my first guitar to be a sparkle Dano double cut, still don't own one.
My first was a $100 Squier bullet, and I didn't know anything about setups, nuts, intonation, ect, so I gave up learning very quickly because it wasn't comfortable to play with. Cheap guitars without being set up can turn people off. I didn't pick up a guitar until a decade later, and actually learned how they're supposed to be set up.
My first electric was a bc rich warlock. Wanna sell it cuz I feel like I've outgrown it. A sun burst or dark purple strat style would be so cool to play
If you are a beginner and liking for your first guitar, go to a guitar store and try different guitars out if you can. The feel of a guitar is probably the most important factor in weather you will play it. Also, go to local shops if you can, you might find something really cool there.
my first guitar was an epiphone sg because i thought it looked cool. then i learned which guitarists also used SGs and started to learn how THEY used their guitars to accomplish the tones they had. it’s not about which guitar you’re using, it’s about learning how to use it!
The first guitar I ever got was a Strat copy I got given but none of the bands I liked played Strats, was only when I started to get some money and realised I could get a different one that I actually started learning how to play it
I got the red one. (It was a Strat copy by Hamer) I upgraded to a transparent finish dark turquoise Washburn PRS copy with Floyd Rose. That thing was pretty bad ass, but I broke the headstock clean off. Ended up with a very early US-made Squier. I swear. Look it up. It was white, but it had a rosewood fretboard, so I didn’t look like Jimi Hendrix, which made me bummed out. Come to think of it, even to this day, I’ve never owned my dream electric. I had a Lake Placid Blue CV that I liked, but it had neck and fret problems that I could never get fixed.
First electric guitar was in 1995, a choice between a Washburn import tele copy OR a strat copy. Maybe a $20 price difference. I figured “Well the Strat has an extra pickup and the whammy bar… and the Tele body has ZERO comfort cuts. Strat all the way.” I kept that until the neck twisted :( and I tried a few other guitars over time, but another Strat, well I went through Squier, Fender, & G&L before finally having that “hello old friend” feeling with a SIre S5 this year.
First guitar I ever bought: a white *Airline 3P DLX* Impractical, easy to roll down the bridge pickup volume knob when playing, only 20 frets the last five of which are hardly accessible but iI thought it was the coolest thing ever and in my country there was only one for sale on the used market. Drove 2½ hours to this ragged garage stacked with amplifiers, got the thing and drove back in my convertible car with the roof folded down in january due to the massive hardcase too big to fit both the trunk or the passenger seat. I sold it at some point only to buy it back from the same guy I sold it to a few months later and now we're never gonna sever. I usually let my guts decide.
Just bought a Fender Player II tele. I swore off buying newer fenders just because I prefer orange specs but the Player II tele in chambered mahogany called my name and I had to get it.😊
the first guitar i ever bought was an epiphone lp-100 from 1996. i got it for $150 from a pawn shop, and i still play and love it now. when my younger siblings decided they wanted to play too, i got them what they chose; my brother chose an epiphone sg, and my sister chose a jackson dinky. i was over the moon, not only to share my love of guitar and music with my family, but also that i knew i got them something they wanted, not what was technically best for a beginner. i don’t know if they’ve kept up with playing, but they have the gear if they ever decide to get back into it
Mine was an Epiphone LP in trans blue burst. I fell in love with the design in 1999 but it took twenty years to realize the dream. Turns out I got lucky and bought a good one. Now I own ten.
100% agree. My first guitar was an off brand Strat, I think my mums boyfriend bought it for me. The action was so high it was painful and never stayed in tune. A few birthdays later, I ended up getting a blonde Squier Tele for my birthday and never looked back. Still have it, and a Tanglewood 355 as my only 2 guitars.
I agree with a few exceptions. My first bass was a Thunderbird. They're cool as hell, don't get me wrong. But for a long time, I thought bass was a much more difficult instrument than it actually was. I couldn't get it to sound right. Then I tried a Jazz bass, and everything made sense. Moral of the story...get the instrument you think is cool, unless it's a Thunderbird?
First guitar needs to be one that was cool and it was setup correctly. Many people stop playing because they think its a flex to stop playing because they grew up somehow.
the thing is for me, my first electric guitar is not the one i choose myself. my parents brought me this high gain ibanez with floyd rose trem when what my 15 years old one just simple piano black epiphone les paul.
The only caveat I’d add is the cool guitar that feels good. I’ve had several “the cool” guitars over the years, but because they were (subjectively) all aesthetic and no playability, they didn’t actually make me want to play. If I’d started on my current one, I likely wouldn’t have missed a day in 26 years, but it took a lot of misfires with trying to look cool before finding the one that made me actually feel cool.
So I did this, and I cant fault the logic, cause here I am almost 20 years later still playing, but I do wish I had had someone to tell me which quirks were specific to the guitar and not just problems with all electric guitars. I started on a black Epiphone SG and ot it was years before I knew most guitars stay in tune after bending and don't have terrible neck dive.
I saw a video once where the guy said "you'll never get a kid to quit faster than when he says he wants to play Metallica and you hand him an acoustic". Go for the one you like (within reason of course).
Just don’t get something with a Floyd rose as your first. Learned that the hard way. I didn’t know you were supposed to change your strings until after I got my second guitar.
Or go the luthier route like I did and modify your Squier until it’s full of exactly what you want out of a guitar. Squier made me want to be a luthier, and my ‘64 Resoglas Airline is why I play guitar.
Shoot. So I have some building to do. My starter guitars are cool enough and all but the mashup in my head would be so much cooler I wouldn't bd able to to resist it in my sleep let alone the other 18 hours a day.
I'm just having fun. I bought something I can't walk by right off the bat. My only problem is now I spend a couple hours a day researching how to make a specific guitar a reality. Do I template, get a kit body to cut the wings off of and a laminate bass neck through blank. I want to build a thing. A hybrid of 3 guitars. Basically just getting the CB Fireglo and TRC \Scratchplate treatment of a Rick, mixed with a very specific fender but largely the body of a very specific Gibson. Right down to the tuning machines. Still practicing 5x a day even if for minutes. But I'm spending 2hrs some times researching the dream. But I feel I'm much further with learning to work on them than play them sadly.I'll keep trying and just so I feel competency for a day before I kick the bucket it'll be worth it. I woke up one day desperate to know what it feels like to be able to play guitar, just grab one and make good sounds from my mind, just for me. That's all I want, some day, little by little. The glimpses I get when something works keep me going.
It’s what I’ve telling people for years. Don’t buy an acoustic if Angus Young is who’s inspiring you to play. Buy an SG. Guitar is hard enough at the start without disincentivising yourself because of received wisdom.
Nope, you have to play acoustic first-one with super high action, so you fingers will bleed and you'll get nerve damage from which you'll never fully recover. Then be sure to get classical lessons from a teacher who HATES rock, blues, even jazz. Hey, it helped Ralph Macchio beat the Devil in Crossroads.
I got a Jag-Stang for Christmas in my freshman year of high school. It was my dream guitar, at the time. I still have it! It mostly sits in the case, but I don't think I could part with it after almost 20 years.
This hit the spot! My first electric was a red MIJ Jag-Stang that I got in 2006. I still own it today and will never sell it even though I also have a couple of other great guitars in my arsenal now. It was really poorly set up and every tech I brought it to basically scratched their head and never really got it right. Did it myself eventually, now it plays great and has a really cool vibe sound wise. Great advice! Managed to put a smile on my face
People gate keep this so hard, like if you aren't a famous musician, you aren't good enough to shit on newbies, even yuppies are allowed to buy guitars and learn to play, amd not being a piece of shit to them, doesn't take anything away from you. Grow up.
I got a Les Paul because it looked cool to me. Thing sucks. Neck like a ball bat. Heavy. Body doesn't sit well in my lap. I don't like 3-3 tuner set-up. I don't like stopbar tail pieces. I don't like the pickup selector at the top left. So I sold it, went to a guitar store and played a bunch of different guitars. Turns out I'm a FrankenTele guy. Telecaster body, with a Thin-C neck, 6-in-line tuners, big ol' frets, and humbuckers.
Everyones first guitar must be set up by a luthier first! Even if its a first act. If its hard as hell to play by an avid player a child is not even gonna stick with it and then parents blame the child for their piss poor choice
But it's advisable to avoid a floyd rose in a first guitar. You'll give up before even tuning the thing
We talk about that in the full episode. My first electric had a Floyd and yes it was frustrating to learn but there was also value in the time I spent learning how to set it up.
@60CycleHumcast gonna watch it later
Lmao, my first guitar was a purple Vantage 418T (a super Strat) and that thing had a Floyd Rose. I still wish I hadn't sold it.
@@joseislanio8910 you can’t assume everybody will give up. Just because you would doesn’t mean everyone else would.
@@Funkyguitarcovers you're right. But some might lose their interest if they struggle with the seemingly basic task of tuning their guitar.
Not just your first guitar. Color and vibe is part of the whole experience . Guitars are works of art and it helps to have strong visual along with the comfort and playability. I call it mojo.
It might be boring but the guitar I thought was cool was a strat. I saw Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii when I was a kid and begged my parents for one. I didn't care about the color or the fingerboard, it just had to be what David Gilmour played. They bought me a black Squier and a book that had a white strat on the cover. I've bought at least half a dozen guitars since then, some of them I still have. I finally bought a white strat like the one on the cover of that book this year and that's the only one I would never consider parting with.
This is great advice. When I started I hated strat style guitars. I thought they looked like cheap toys (mostly because most cheap toys ARE strat style guitars). Finally got to the point in my journey when I realized a Strat was the right tool for the job I was trying to do. But I never would have been inspired to play if I started there.
In the early to mid 2000's, you never saw metal or rock dudes playing Strats. There was something just "not cool" about them. Now, you see them all the time.
I was a complete opposite because I was inspired by Kurt Cobain and my friends playing Nirvana songs
100% agree....I always had a thing for hollowbodies, and my first was a 335 style copy from Oscar Schmidt, and it sent me shortly down the line for a white falcon and never looked back!
Had my OE-30 for 15 years. Played it almost every day. Gave it to my nephew when I got a Starcaster
My first guitar was a trombone. I loved it!
@@chasbee mine too!😂
Tuning stability issues? 😂
@@marcop1587 ROFL!!! Constantly! 😆
That is something I agree on 100%. That is why I wanted an SG. A Gibson was way out of my range, but I eventually managed to save up for an Epiphone. I just wanted to play AC/DC and nothing else. I have seen a few cases where the kids want to play hard rock or metal, but the parents insist that they need to learn to play acoustic first. Many of them lost interest after not too long.
They were spoiled brats lol if you’re really hungry and thirsty and crave the experience you’ll play whatever’s given to you just like me I wanted a electric guitar, but my mom said this is what I can afford and this is what you’re gonna get and I was so thankful just to have any guitar to play, but then again I wasn’t some silver spoon fed ⚪️ boi eathier lol 😝
@@Funkyguitarcovers Definitely in several cases. But I also think that some of the parents simply did not want to listen to a beginner guitar player cranking an amplifier in their room. Some also did not want to spend the extra money on something the kids might get tired of after a short while.
@@FunkyguitarcoversIn what world is an acoustic less expensive than an electric? You can have an electric in the style of your choice and a headphone amp for the price of a beginner acoustic. It’s not 1975 any more.
I’ve been playing since 1962 and I’ve only accumulated nine guitars and that’s it. I swear just nine.
The rest are just "project" guitars!
😂
@@James-fu8fj that’s not bad for a Bass player 😂
accumulated 9 guitars huh? That's a funny way of saying you bought a lot of guitars and sold all but 9 of them. 😂
100% agree. Also, if you can afford it, don't feel forced to buy a cheap or "beginners" guitar. Buy whatever you really feel the vibe off. I've heard of so many people who started and stopped again and after seeing their guitar it was no wonder.
I asked for an electric, but was forced to start on acoustic. It killed my passion for years. I finally started to practice when I bought my first electric for myself. I came back to acoustic and fell in love with it about 10 years later, but I desperately wish I had started on electric. I wish I could get those few extra years of playing back.
@@JF96125 I’ve said this ☝🏻 a million times to people - anyone and everyone who has ever asked me what guitar to start on or to buy their kid - to get an electric because it’s got lighter gauge strings, a body size/shape that’s easier to manage, and is going to sound “cooler,” for a kid especially. I was lucky enough to have a smart store owner (and willing guardian) who got me on electric first, and I do think it’s a big part of why I stuck with it. I could play the music I was listening to and use distortion and play power chords and impress my friends…
Lol because you were spoiled ha ha if you really wanted to play, you would’ve been thankful for whatever you had and whatever you were given, you didn’t really wanna play you liked the idea of playing that’s two different things 😂😂😂😂
Lol, do you read what you just wrote? You said you were forced to start on the acoustic but then you said you did not start until you got your electric in the same breath lol and then you said you wish you would’ve started on the electric when you said that you did not start until you had an electric. Boy you make no sense lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And if it was really that serious, you could’ve traded your acoustic for any electric that you can get your hands on or possibly sold it to buy one 😂 😂 keep it real you wanted to look cool and you wanted a specific electric and that’s what it was. You like the idea of playing you did not want to learn to play. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
My first guitar when I was 13 was a Gibson SG I didn’t like it lol I traded it for an RC car no lie. It wasn’t a cheap RC car for its time. I think it was 1982 somewhere around there
After being gifted an Epiphone Special 2 and learning the basics, I was adamant on buying a guitar with a Floyd Rose in it. Everyone advised against it, but I’m glad I did, because it inspired me to keep playing. I learned a lot about harmonics, and a lot about how to properly set up and adjust floating bridges because of that. Now that I’m older, I do gravitate to hard tails for their ability to pick up and play, but it’s nice to not be a stranger to the other side!
Gretsch junior jet. Thing spoke to me through the wall of crap at the guitar center
the first guitar i bought new was a jagstang in 97 or 98 at mars music. But it was after I had a squire strat and a rad hondo ii flying V
I 1000% agree, when I got my first electric guitar I went into a shop and wanted this blue squire and the guy in the shop said no you shouldn’t get that you should get this second hand Yamaha Pacifica which was wooden and no joke weighed about 12 Ibs, I went back to the blue guitar and then he kept insisting on the Yamaha and at the time I thought he’s played guitar for years he probably knows more but in the end I barely played the Yamaha and I know I would have played the squire a lot more
My first guitar - my dad took me to a used instrument shop and record store when I was about 15. I saw a Shergold Custom Masquerader. I didn’t know it was what Bernard Sumner played in Joy Division at this point. But it had loads of switches on it which looked so cool to me. And I didn’t want a strat or a Yamaha Pacifica. I wanted something weirder that no one else had.
My first guitar was a Squier Strat and i never got into it. I then bought an Epiphone LP but it still just wasn't the kind i truly liked and i got that because it was affordable. Like 2 months after i bought that Les Paul, i bought a Mexican Fender Tele that i thought was gorgeous and finally satisfied that guitar itch. I've been more heavily playing this whole year and the rest of last when i got it. Surprisingly that Epiphone Les Paul plays the smoothest on the neck and action.
Agreed. My first electric was a tele, I hated it.
My wife got me a purple Slick SL56 Jazzmaster, relatively cheap and fun and I love it. I play it more than my Hagstrom Super Swede or my Mustang.
I wanted my first guitar to be a sparkle Dano double cut, still don't own one.
My first was a $100 Squier bullet, and I didn't know anything about setups, nuts, intonation, ect, so I gave up learning very quickly because it wasn't comfortable to play with. Cheap guitars without being set up can turn people off.
I didn't pick up a guitar until a decade later, and actually learned how they're supposed to be set up.
Lmao this is soo true my first electric guitar was a B.C. Rich beast. Sucks to playing sitting down but looks cool af when you're playing standing up.
My first electric was a bc rich warlock. Wanna sell it cuz I feel like I've outgrown it. A sun burst or dark purple strat style would be so cool to play
If you are a beginner and liking for your first guitar, go to a guitar store and try different guitars out if you can. The feel of a guitar is probably the most important factor in weather you will play it. Also, go to local shops if you can, you might find something really cool there.
my first guitar was an epiphone sg because i thought it looked cool. then i learned which guitarists also used SGs and started to learn how THEY used their guitars to accomplish the tones they had. it’s not about which guitar you’re using, it’s about learning how to use it!
Unfortunately I don’t have the money to have started with anything other than a “beginner” guitar but I totally agree!!
The first guitar I ever got was a Strat copy I got given but none of the bands I liked played Strats, was only when I started to get some money and realised I could get a different one that I actually started learning how to play it
My first guitar was an all black ibanez gio with two humbuckers and I fucking love it to death, couldnt have started on something else
I got the red one. (It was a Strat copy by Hamer) I upgraded to a transparent finish dark turquoise Washburn PRS copy with Floyd Rose. That thing was pretty bad ass, but I broke the headstock clean off. Ended up with a very early US-made Squier. I swear. Look it up. It was white, but it had a rosewood fretboard, so I didn’t look like Jimi Hendrix, which made me bummed out. Come to think of it, even to this day, I’ve never owned my dream electric. I had a Lake Placid Blue CV that I liked, but it had neck and fret problems that I could never get fixed.
First electric guitar was in 1995, a choice between a Washburn import tele copy OR a strat copy. Maybe a $20 price difference. I figured “Well the Strat has an extra pickup and the whammy bar… and the Tele body has ZERO comfort cuts. Strat all the way.” I kept that until the neck twisted :( and I tried a few other guitars over time, but another Strat, well I went through Squier, Fender, & G&L before finally having that “hello old friend” feeling with a SIre S5 this year.
First guitar I ever bought: a white *Airline 3P DLX*
Impractical, easy to roll down the bridge pickup volume knob when playing, only 20 frets the last five of which are hardly accessible but iI thought it was the coolest thing ever and in my country there was only one for sale on the used market.
Drove 2½ hours to this ragged garage stacked with amplifiers, got the thing and drove back in my convertible car with the roof folded down in january due to the massive hardcase too big to fit both the trunk or the passenger seat.
I sold it at some point only to buy it back from the same guy I sold it to a few months later and now we're never gonna sever.
I usually let my guts decide.
My first guitar was a Jagstang!
Just bought a Fender Player II tele. I swore off buying newer fenders just because I prefer orange specs but the Player II tele in chambered mahogany called my name and I had to get it.😊
The beard is totally out of control. I like it. Hahah Ryan rocks
Light strings, good action. And it definitely can be an electric.
My first was a Peavy Raptor from a kit, and I haaaaaaaaaaated that thing. I wanted the Warlock that was like half the price of that whole starter kit!
the first guitar i ever bought was an epiphone lp-100 from 1996. i got it for $150 from a pawn shop, and i still play and love it now. when my younger siblings decided they wanted to play too, i got them what they chose; my brother chose an epiphone sg, and my sister chose a jackson dinky. i was over the moon, not only to share my love of guitar and music with my family, but also that i knew i got them something they wanted, not what was technically best for a beginner. i don’t know if they’ve kept up with playing, but they have the gear if they ever decide to get back into it
Mine was an Epiphone LP in trans blue burst. I fell in love with the design in 1999 but it took twenty years to realize the dream. Turns out I got lucky and bought a good one. Now I own ten.
100% agree. My first guitar was an off brand Strat, I think my mums boyfriend bought it for me. The action was so high it was painful and never stayed in tune.
A few birthdays later, I ended up getting a blonde Squier Tele for my birthday and never looked back. Still have it, and a Tanglewood 355 as my only 2 guitars.
My first guitar was ibanez saber, my second an epiphone riviera, and the first one i bought was an ibanez destroyer
Yep. I have lots of guitars that I buy just cause they look cool. 😊, even though I'll always choose a strat. God help me when I win the lottery.
I’d want to be friends with them if first guitar is a jagstang lol
I agree with a few exceptions. My first bass was a Thunderbird. They're cool as hell, don't get me wrong. But for a long time, I thought bass was a much more difficult instrument than it actually was. I couldn't get it to sound right. Then I tried a Jazz bass, and everything made sense. Moral of the story...get the instrument you think is cool, unless it's a Thunderbird?
First guitar needs to be one that was cool and it was setup correctly. Many people stop playing because they think its a flex to stop playing because they grew up somehow.
I got a jagmaster back in the day because i wanted the kurt cobain jaguar with pafs but the jagmaster was alot more affordable
the thing is for me, my first electric guitar is not the one i choose myself. my parents brought me this high gain ibanez with floyd rose trem when what my 15 years old one just simple piano black epiphone les paul.
Jag-stang, good taste!
If you can afford it, 100% that’s kind of what I did, but then again I started playing before Covid when prices were not mentally ill.
The only caveat I’d add is the cool guitar that feels good. I’ve had several “the cool” guitars over the years, but because they were (subjectively) all aesthetic and no playability, they didn’t actually make me want to play. If I’d started on my current one, I likely wouldn’t have missed a day in 26 years, but it took a lot of misfires with trying to look cool before finding the one that made me actually feel cool.
My first guitar was a squire classic vibe starcaster
So I did this, and I cant fault the logic, cause here I am almost 20 years later still playing, but I do wish I had had someone to tell me which quirks were specific to the guitar and not just problems with all electric guitars. I started on a black Epiphone SG and ot it was years before I knew most guitars stay in tune after bending and don't have terrible neck dive.
I picked the one that had a heavenly choir shine down upon me the moment I picked it up
I saw a video once where the guy said "you'll never get a kid to quit faster than when he says he wants to play Metallica and you hand him an acoustic". Go for the one you like (within reason of course).
Getting my 10th this month, and still going by that, gotta be something cool
Just don’t get something with a Floyd rose as your first. Learned that the hard way. I didn’t know you were supposed to change your strings until after I got my second guitar.
Or go the luthier route like I did and modify your Squier until it’s full of exactly what you want out of a guitar. Squier made me want to be a luthier, and my ‘64 Resoglas Airline is why I play guitar.
Is that Steve with the red jagstang?!? Dude!
Buy them something you want in case they bail… win win.
Possibly a playable one.
Shoot. So I have some building to do. My starter guitars are cool enough and all but the mashup in my head would be so much cooler I wouldn't bd able to to resist it in my sleep let alone the other 18 hours a day.
I'm just having fun. I bought something I can't walk by right off the bat. My only problem is now I spend a couple hours a day researching how to make a specific guitar a reality. Do I template, get a kit body to cut the wings off of and a laminate bass neck through blank. I want to build a thing. A hybrid of 3 guitars. Basically just getting the CB Fireglo and TRC \Scratchplate treatment of a Rick, mixed with a very specific fender but largely the body of a very specific Gibson. Right down to the tuning machines. Still practicing 5x a day even if for minutes. But I'm spending 2hrs some times researching the dream. But I feel I'm much further with learning to work on them than play them sadly.I'll keep trying and just so I feel competency for a day before I kick the bucket it'll be worth it. I woke up one day desperate to know what it feels like to be able to play guitar, just grab one and make good sounds from my mind, just for me. That's all I want, some day, little by little. The glimpses I get when something works keep me going.
It’s what I’ve telling people for years. Don’t buy an acoustic if Angus Young is who’s inspiring you to play. Buy an SG. Guitar is hard enough at the start without disincentivising yourself because of received wisdom.
first guitar i bought was a jagstang😭
I got a fender strat for my 10th birthday and it’s been the only guitar I’ve had for the last 25 years. Why would you ever need more than one?
You have to stay motivated!
Buy a guitar you think is sexy. You will stick with it longer and enjoy playing it more.
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Nope, you have to play acoustic first-one with super high action, so you fingers will bleed and you'll get nerve damage from which you'll never fully recover. Then be sure to get classical lessons from a teacher who HATES rock, blues, even jazz. Hey, it helped Ralph Macchio beat the Devil in Crossroads.
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I got a Jag-Stang for Christmas in my freshman year of high school. It was my dream guitar, at the time. I still have it! It mostly sits in the case, but I don't think I could part with it after almost 20 years.
This hit the spot! My first electric was a red MIJ Jag-Stang that I got in 2006. I still own it today and will never sell it even though I also have a couple of other great guitars in my arsenal now. It was really poorly set up and every tech I brought it to basically scratched their head and never really got it right. Did it myself eventually, now it plays great and has a really cool vibe sound wise. Great advice! Managed to put a smile on my face
People gate keep this so hard, like if you aren't a famous musician, you aren't good enough to shit on newbies, even yuppies are allowed to buy guitars and learn to play, amd not being a piece of shit to them, doesn't take anything away from you. Grow up.
Somebody link me to the purple guitar in the thumbnail so I can buy my first guitar.
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I just clicked 'cause the danelectro dano pro
So what's wrong with jagstangs
Nothing
It's a crazy story bc they're comparatively silly and pretty rare, not because they're bad lol
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I got a Les Paul because it looked cool to me. Thing sucks. Neck like a ball bat. Heavy. Body doesn't sit well in my lap. I don't like 3-3 tuner set-up. I don't like stopbar tail pieces. I don't like the pickup selector at the top left. So I sold it, went to a guitar store and played a bunch of different guitars.
Turns out I'm a FrankenTele guy. Telecaster body, with a Thin-C neck, 6-in-line tuners, big ol' frets, and humbuckers.
Anything under $250 that you think is cool, yes, great first guitar. Mine was a peavey red guitar. Go figure.
I have played for 31 years I have owned to many to count I’m a guitar hoe
Everyones first guitar must be set up by a luthier first! Even if its a first act. If its hard as hell to play by an avid player a child is not even gonna stick with it and then parents blame the child for their piss poor choice
Jagstang is awesome.