This is how I started on the guitar

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Escribano

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From: England, living in Italy

This is how I started on the guitar

For those who can get the BBC iPlayer this should ring some bells http://bbc.co.uk/i/sf772/

Great stuff and so true for me. I started with secondhand Watkins Rapier 33 for £15 when I was 14 years old. From my saturday job at Tesco's.

Guitars sure get into your blood.

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Ron.M

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RE: This is how I started on the guitar (in reply to Escribano)

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Watkins Rapier 33

Yep, that's the model I had as well at 14, along with a 15W Amp.

I traded it in a year later to get a 12 string acoustic though.

Years later I bought a second hand Les Paul copy in Tottenham Court Rd (for about £150) just for fun.

Even more years later, my wife's young brother was playing in a kind of Punk influenced band and was using a Watkins Rapier 33. I felt sorry for him and gave him the Les Paul copy.
I asked him a few months later what he thought of it and he had to admit he didn't like it. "Too smooth and light action and fancy...I just like the chunky sound of the Watkins with heavy guage strings".

cheers,

Ron

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mark indigo

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RE: This is how I started on the guitar (in reply to Escribano)

i started on a Kay electric i bought off a kid at school for a £5-er.

The body was made from 3/4" ply which you could clearly see round the edge of the body through the crappy stain/varnish. the amp was equally trashy.

not even much good for tinny 3 chord white noise let alone anything else!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 12 2010 23:51:40

rombsix

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RE: This is how I started on the guitar (in reply to mark indigo)

This is what I started out with: Hohner HC-06. Bought it brand new for USD 80.

http://www.hohnerusa.com/index.php?308

What's the catch? I still use it to this day! (You can see me holding it in my avatar)

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 13 2010 12:07:59

yohan

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RE: This is how I started on the guitar (in reply to rombsix)

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ORIGINAL: rombsix

This is what I started out with: Hohner HC-06. Bought it brand new for USD 80.

What's the catch? I still use it to this day! (You can see me holding it in my avatar)

I have that too. Your first guitar will always be beautiful and sort of holy.
I will never sell my first guitar! not for a million!

(well, maybe for a million then)

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Elie

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RE: This is how I started on the guitar (in reply to Escribano)

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I will never sell my first guitar! not for a million!

well I will sell you my first guitar which is Yamaha-cm40 for half a million
deal ? common its my beautiful sort of holy first guitar

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 13 2010 13:01:20

Escribano

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RE: This is how I started on the guitar (in reply to Ron.M)

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Yep, that's the model I had as well at 14, along with a 15W Amp.

Small world and crap wasn't it? I just wired mine into my record player or played on the toilet, with no amp. My Mum asked whether my fingers were supposed to bleed!

But did you watch the iplayer show?

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orsonw

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RE: This is how I started on the guitar (in reply to Escribano)

Having spent a lot of time around rock and roll types, I think that tv series is amusing and quite accurate.

Solos apart, I think that the role of the guitarist in flamenco is more like the bass guitarist in a rock band.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 13 2010 14:18:23

Ron.M

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RE: This is how I started on the guitar (in reply to Escribano)

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But did you watch the iplayer show?

Yeah..I just watched it Simon. Good fun stuff.

You know, whenever you get these top notch guitarists away from all the cool stage posturing and rock lifestyle trips etc....they are all really just geeky guitar nerds!

I've been thinking about what that guy was saying about the British bands onstage tending to take the piss out of everyone, including themselves...

Yeah... I think that really was true in comparison with the American bands who IMO took themselves pretty seriously.

I think that was one of the main differences myself.

How life has changed since those early years of pestering one's folks for money to buy a cheap guitar etc.

From what I see, parents these days are buying their kids Fenders and Gibsons and Roland keyboards even if they show the slightest sign of being interested.

Same with tennis and football, or acting lessons etc. No expense spared.

All these wanabee parents wanting their kids to be superstars....