You Never Forget Your First ... Guitar and Amp!
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You never forget your first time! So, reader friends, I’m curious. What was your first guitar and amp, and how do you think it influenced your playing? In my Christmas Blog I described my first electric set-up, check it out!
Wasn’t I cute? So, my first guitar was a no-name cheapo, but my first amp was a brown Fender Deluxe. The guitar really stunk, but through that brown Fender the resultant tone was thick, rich, and downright delicious with the tremolo of the Gods! I’m convinced that I was forever set down a tone-path. To this very day, I feel as though the AMP is a much more important part of the electric guitar tone chain than the guitar is.
Okay fast forward to just a few months ago. I came across a rare craigslist gem, a one owner Fender Mustang & Vibrolux being sold as a pair. As it turns out, some 40-years back, these were bought by the seller’s parents with the intention that he would learn to play the guitar. He never did. Whadaheck? A brand-new competition-stripe Mustang and a black-face Vibrolux. Man, just touch that combo and it starts playing surf-rock tunes all by itself. In 1967, any teen boy armed with that combination should have no problem dating the most popular girl in school. Maybe that was the problem, just by HOLDING the guitar, he got so much action that he was left with no time to actually learn how to play the thing. Yea, that musta been it.
Now, back to the question. What was YOUR first electric guitar and amp? How did it influence your playing? Were you forever changed? Please respond as a comment to this blog :-). If ya got a pic of that first rig, email me (Vaughn@wgs4.com); we love that kinda thing around here!
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Bye for now, my "outside" blog recommendation this week is six string soul; check it out, they are “A boutique & vintage guitar blog for the conscious guitarist.” How cool, sounds like our kind of folks! http://www.sixstringsoul.com/
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Great! Wow, Love that Vibrolux!
Your right, I'll never forget. My First: Gibson "Marauder" and a Fender Champ Amp (about 1976 or so).
Why: They were the cheapest the music store had! Both were actually real decent quality and both were made in America ... still got em, and both are worth a bunch more now than then...my how things have changed.
My first electric 'rig' I got for Christmas 1972. Tempo brand Japanese cheapo electric vaguely (in its dreams) like a Fender Jaguar plus matching little Tempo amp (but it did have reverb!!) AND I could get the 'boing crash spoing' sound like on the end of Highway Star by shaking that little amp.
Im not sure back then I would have even appreciated such as fantastic amp as you started with Vaughan. My things have changed!
Years later after I had upgraded to a Gibson SG I was at a audition for a band and a guy walks in with my Tempo electric! Same cracks in the plywood body it came with! :)
My first rig i got at age 13 after hearing white zombie la sexrosisto so my mom and dad bought me a crate combo amp had a 10 inch speaker 2 channel ss and a westone dimeision VI guitar the amp is long gone but i still have the guitar to this day and belive it or not i still love playing it, it just has a very cool sound to it not to mention you can coil tap the humbuckers in it and it has a phase reverse built in the guitar and that fire red finish is th ebomb!
now i have a 70's sunn model t,jet city 22h,laney aor protube,and a crate bluevoodoo i also have 7 guitars and 3 speaker cabs, although i must admit i'm still swaping speakers liek crazy and i'm a sucker for a fuzz box