Remembering the First Instrument you got!

[JerseyRich]

The first instrument I got was an Ibanez 4 string ex series bass guitar when I was 12...
All of you guitar players know what I mean when I say that I could never sell it...

Let me know what the first instrument you got was...and if you sold it to buy drugs or get your girlfriend an abortion!
:)

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This message was edited by JerseyRich on 3-23-02 @ 11:44 AM

[furie]

Drum set, 4th grade



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Thanks Fallon!

[Lulu]

my first instrument was a paino. but my parents didn't but it for me, they had it before i was born. <P>
so, since they didn't really get it for me, my first real instrument was an accoustic guitar. i still have it, but it is way out of tune. so, that was my first, if you don't count the recorder i got in 3rd grade for music class. <P>

[gameguy]

do i have to...a violin in like 7th grade for school...no thanx!...oh and we kept the baby.

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[Lulu]

a violin in like 7th grade for school

not fair! i've always wanted a violin! and why did you need it for school? all i got to play in school is that stupid recorder.

[Zipgun]

I had a "hand me down" snare drum from my brother through elementary school, and my Dad bought his own drum kit when I was around 13 or so. He tried to teach me, but I'm right handed and left footed, and I basically just sucked. But my first instrument of my own, was a guitar when I was 16.

It was a Phantom, white strat copy, and came as a package deal with a 25 watt Gorilla amp. I think the whole thing cost about $125. It was a serious piece of shit. But I couldn't really play, so it didn't matter much. After that, was a Kramer Focus 2000 with a Floyd Rose. It was way too advanced for my playing level. But at 18, I got my baby. A black Fender Telecaster. Perfect guitar in every way. Finally, I could at least "look" as cool as Keith Richards. Even though it was a Korean model, it was still just fine. And 12 years later, it still is. I play it all the time and it still sounds great and stays in tune. I've changed the pickups and wiring more times than I can count, and have made custom pick guards, but the neck is still perfectly fit for my hand. The body has scars, and it isn't pretty, but it's my bitch, and I'll never get rid of it. I have a lot of different guitars, but that one is always my favorite.

You can see it if this <a href=http://atamichimpo.50megs.com/images/setup3.jpg>link</a> works.

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This message was edited by skidmark on 3-23-02 @ 12:42 PM

[Man With Desk next To Al Dukes]

1952 fender telecaster reissue from a very good friend, signed too

[Lulu]

skidmark, thats one beautiful guitar.

[ag]

I think I was like 10, All I ever wanted was a keyboard, FINALLY It was a dream come true, I went to Service merchandice and picked up my HUGE casio keyboard!

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[EQ]

A beautiful Concert Piano - a Steinway...
But my absolute favourite was one Christmas when I was about ten years old. I got an a Fender guitar.( acoustic )..I still have it. It's not named named "Lucille", but I love it dearly. Too bad I'm still a a lousy guitarist! :)

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[Zipgun]

skidmark, thats one beautiful guitar. <P>
Thanks. <P>
It's cropped from a picture of a typical setup I bring to a gig. Also in that picture is my <a href=http://atamichimpo.50megs.com/images/setup4.jpg>Firebird</a> and my <a href=http://atamichimpo.50megs.com/images/setup5.jpg>Les Paul</a>. Too bad you can't see the color of my Les Paul too well in that picture, but if you could, it looks just like <a href=http://www.mattsguitarshed.com/images/lespauldx.jpg>this</a>. Actually, that's what it looked like originally, but some idiot that owned it before me took out the mini humbuckers and replaced them with DiMarzio's. Ive since replaced them with PAF's. Too bad I don't have pic's of my other guitars like my <a href=http://www.andagain.com/tt_images/tt_epi_big.jpg>Epiphone Sheraton</a> or my <a href=http://www.chrisguitars.com/fen60s-mex-lpb.jpg>Stratocaster</a>. <P>

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[JerseyRich]

My god Skid...A Phantom!!! I remember going out to buy my first bass and trying a short scale Phantom Bass...God! What a piece of shite!
Well, you have shown off enough...now its my turn.
These are my current "user" bases...http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~kowalski/_ATK300.JPG...The Ibanez ATK 300..kick ass stingray copy...and http://www.leederassociates.com.au/Images/jbassbla.gifFretless Fender Jazz...
Great basses that I can get lots of great sounds out of.

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This message was edited by JerseyRich on 3-23-02 @ 7:31 PM

[FUNKMAN]

a red Squire - still have it
it has the humbuckers and keeps in tune...
don't play it much but as you say, it was the first and has sentimental value...

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[DreamWeaver]

I got my first vibrator when I was 22...

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[lleeder]

I got my first vibrator when I was 22
1st how many do you have and do you need any help with them?

[sexy bastard]

well i was like 8 when i got a acoustic guitar..well my first one and from age 8-13 I use to get alot ofthem cheap ones of course but i used them only for backyard wrestling and hitting someone with it

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[Gvac]

My parents bought a piano for my sister and I to take lessons on when I was about 8 years old. I think I lasted about six months. It's still collecting dust in their house.

I bought an acoustic guitar when I was 18 and began to teach myself how to play. It was a cheap Aria with way too high action and a way too fat neck.

Of course, it's still my favorite guitar to play on and I wouldn't trade it for all the tea in China.


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[Hot4Teacher]

The first instrument I played was the piano, I didnt like my teacher so I wouldnt practice--she was a bitchy lady that wanted me to be friends with her kids--bleh!

so my parents bought me a guitar, its a red ocscar schmidt and I have been playing ever since:)

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Ciao :) kisses JerseyRich :)

[42nd-delay]

The first instrument I got was a trumpet, back in 3rd grade. We leased it I guess, and it's still in my parents house somewhere. I stopped playing by the end of middle school cause I lost interest in music. <P>
When I was about 17, I suddenly got back into music and itching to get a guitar, which I finally did a year later. I just went out and bought it one day, and my parents were pretty pissed when I brought it home. But they would have never bought me one, so I think I made the right decision. <P>
It's a Fender acoustic (DG 30-S), and it's pretty good. Real loud, action's decent. I've written a lot of songs on it, and still play it every day. I actually only got an electric last year! <P>
All this Phantom talk is hilarious. One of the guys in my band has a Phantom, which we've pretty much forbid him from ever playing. We were convinced he was the only one who still owned a Phantom, the rest having been erradicated from existence due to their suckiness. The weird thing is that he also has a little Gorilla amp! Skidmark, your real name isn't Jason, is it? <P>
The Phantom is currently shoved under the couch in my apartment, getting the care it deserves. <P>
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[Jester]

My parents got me an organ when I was a kid and the only song I learned was "When the saints go marching in." Boy was I never made out to be a musician.

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[Lulu]

I didnt like my teacher so I wouldnt practice--she was a bitchy lady
my paino teacher was nice but she had tourettes. so whenever she would finish a sentence, she would twich and make this clicking sound. it was very destracting.

[Jennitalia]

i had a flutophone in 3rd grade. that thing rocked.
i tried playing the flute one year but could never get anything to come out of it.
then i played the violin for a few years

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[cronicman]

i got a trumpet and i never cleaned it when i turned it in the spit valve had chickin bits in it.

kEeP SmoKIn,
cronic man

[A.J.]

My first guitar was a grey and black Mako Fender Stratocaster copy.

[scooter]

"Growing up ,i was a huge Black Sabbath fan(still am). Geezer Butler was one of my biggest influences, so was John Paul Jones(Zep). I couldn't decide what bass i really wanted. When i discovered Metallica at an early age, i was totally blown away by Cliff Burton. I thought the Rickenbacker was the coolest bass ever. So i had saved my paper route money for months until i had enough for it. It was the first time i had spent that much money. I bought a black Rick, w/ white trim at Sam Ash in Brooklyn. I believe it was on East 16th street. It's not there anymore. But i was around 15 years old when i bought it, i'm over 30 and still own it. One of the very few things i truly cherish."

[Gwen]

3rd grade: Violin, it came with the Orchestra teacher from Hell...F-U Mrs. Yvette Benjamin.

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[The Blowhard]

I remember being in the "Recorder Club" in 3rd grade and getting a very special Alto Recorder..not wood, but plastic. I rocked.

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Thanks to the talented JerseyRich

[The Blowhard]

My first instrument was a Recorder. We played it in 2nd grade. What crap!

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[PanterA]

Of coarse, everyone's first instrument was the recorder. I would LOVE for this istrument to make it to 1 rock band, or ska band.

How cool would that be?

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Look at the bright side, It fits in a backpack, they only cost about $5, they teach you how to play rockin tunes in school like...Mary had a little lamb, Doe a Deer, and Oh When the Saints come marching in. PLUS it comes in a cool plastic sheeth. Come on rock bands...lets get original and introduce the Recorder!!!

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[Zipgun]

I remember being in the "Recorder Club" in 3rd grade and getting a very special Alto Recorder..not wood, but plastic. I rocked.

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My first instrument was a Recorder. We played it in 2nd grade. What crap!

-The Heckler
08-18-2002



Hmm.....


So you started in second grade, but joined the recorder club in third grade?


Is that the story you're sticking to Mr. "so called" Heckler?

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[nortonfan]

6th grade guitar!

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[Death Metal Moe]

I CANNOT BELIEVE that NO ONE has made a Skin Flute joke yet!

Shame on you ALL!

My first was an upright Piano. A very nice, and well off friend of our family put up most of the cash for it. I still have it im my room.

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[pinkyfloyd]

When I was in the 4th grade, I started to take trombone lessons. Everyone thought I was crazy, because you never see a girl playing the trombone. But I begged my mom to let me do it, because it just looked so cool. The trombone just looked like so much fun to play. The thing was so heavy for me to carry, that my grandfather had to drive me to school, on the days I had music lessons. I only played it for that one school year, and to this day, I regret ever giving it up. But, when you're a kid, you lose interest in things very quickly.

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Oh, by the way, which one's pinky?

[The Blowhard]

Is that the story you're sticking to Mr. "so called" Heckler?



We are talking millions and millions of brain cells ago. Sometimes the memories just pop in my head, other times I never let the truth get in the way of a good story. This is the internet, right?

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[grlNIN]

Fifth Grade Saxophone...My teacher told me to give up because i sounded like a truck.....

SAX-A-MA-PHONE

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[Steels]

Flutophone in the 3rd grade. The entire class recieved one and was taught by Bill Conti. Several years later i went on to master a cousin of the flutophone....the SkinFlute

Sorry....Your just not terribly important to me....

[Freeze]

IN the fourth grade I they made us play recorders

[ToddEVF]

lil' plastic acoustic guitar. basically a biggers tool for children. i miss it so much. i didn't mean to smash it over my brothers head when he was 6

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[yarpwizard]

An accordian...hey! stop laughing! <P>

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