Your first guitar rig.

[Lance Chambers]

I have that guitar out back ,that I need to rebulid. That pickup, Gibson p-13 is killer
Rural Mississippi probably aint much different .......

You know what they say about Mississippi.
I like your recent uploads Al......

What's ironic about my Harmony is all of the hardware is branded authentic Gibson.

 

[AlvisX]

What's ironic about my Harmony is all of the hardware is branded authentic Gibson.

There was a lotta parts exchange going on with the Chicago guitar industry in the 40s n 50s. I had a Wards mandolin that was a Gibson .There's some Nationals out there that have Gibson ES-175 and J-50 bodies

 

[Jethro Rocker]

Christmas 1978. Folks had access to instruments through their drug store, strangely. Thankfully they picked a Goya L6-S copy. 24 fret, thin neck, fast, so playable esp for a noobie. Still one of my faves and I even found a genuine 1975 L6-S to go with it.
Amp was a univox Stage 65, terrible little 20 watt thing.
A couple years later graduated to a Traynor TS200 with matching 9x8 cab. Can't recall what it sounded like.
Ultimately got a white 2203 half stack in 1983 new and never looked back.
2 old amps are stock pics.

 

[BftGibson]

5 years ago guitar player bailed right before paid studio time for the next Album; bass for 30 years. Here is the 2 rigs started on. Damn 5 years passed since the switch already..

 

[jefleppard65]

sears amp (worst trem in history) and an El Degas LP custom (bolt on) circa 1979. like someone above posted, a year later mom got me a EHX muff fuzz (2"x3" super small and shorted out often bec no insulation) and life would never be the same. velour was also a factor.

 

[JeffMcLeod]

Odessa electric. Wine red. Beautiful guitar. Think Les Paul, but double cutaway. Early 80's, I think it was like $200 new.

I'd give anything to see it, or even a picture of it, or even a picture of something similar to it, again.

First amp was a Peavey Bandit 65. Early 80's, like '82 or so.

 

[Lance Chambers]

Love that console stereo. My mom still has hers.........fully functional!

 

[Nitrobattery]

I wish I had pictures of my first rig. It was a black Memphis Strat copy into a Peavey Rage 158. Eventually I added an Arion Metal Master Distortion Pedal. I spent a lot of time in my room around age 11 with that little setup.

 

[Sg-ocaster]

So what did you have? LP Custom, 1959 or something else?
I came into the guitar world from the bottom up. Living under crushing, oppressive poverty forced me to become very resourceful while being a royally cheap cock. This first rig was a total $15 investment, $15 for the ax, $0 for the reel to reel. I was a dumpster diver in my youth.

Plug in crank up the record, deal with the 1/2 second delay and you were there. The strings were so high you could have used it for a crossbow but hey there was ZERO string buzz so my tone was cleaner than a virgin's...you get the point.

So later that year i had an economic boom. Harvest showed up and i picked potatoes for a fuckin month. After my overlord mom made me spend 98% of my profit on shit i didn't want such as underwear i still had enough cash to move into the big time. A quick trip to the pawn shop i scored these:

Total rip off for that day, $30. Once i started playing this pro grade gear i knew it wouldn't be long before i got laid. Tone was incredible. I read somewhere in Guitar player that i made Blackmore so nervous so he did an interview and totally dissed my ass first. Ruined my career he did.

Nice!!!! Wollensak t 1500 reel to reel.....i found one a month ago at an antiques shop for $10..... Salvaged a Raytheon BP 12ax7 out of it....was gonna make a guitar amp out of it but the circuit is to weird and I said screw it....but I stack pedals in front of it stock and a 1x10 cab for late nite practice.

Anyhow my 1st rig was a teisco Much like yours cept no tremolo and one pickup and a floral print on the pickguard. I got from my friends stepdad For $15 and plugged into a sound design AM/ FM receiver I had cause it had a 1/4" aux jack.

 

[Wenander]

it got me started and i still got both...and the amp isnt bad at all. maxed out on clean channel it rips. and even better when hooked to my 2x12 vintage greenbacks

 

[Wildeman]

Extremely poor (family of seven) growing up in rural Arkansas. Imagine what that is like folks.

My grandma gave me this '58 Harmony for Christmas '76.
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............didn't get an amp (of my own) until circa 1981.

Mine was the same one! A hand me down Harmony, somebody swiped the P13 though.

 

[Wildeman]

This first soon upgraded to this SG and this amp amp soon "upgraded" to this!yeah, i got hornswoggled

 

[El Gringo]

Gibson Les Paul Custom with a Silverface Fender Twin Reverb . For pedals i had a Big Muff , a Phase 90 ,that school bus yellow MXR Chorus , EHX Memory Man .

 

[DesolationBlvd]

I'm young enough that I started not with some weird off-brand, with a Squier Strat Pack. I believe it was the SE-100. Parted out after a botched refinish.

 

[Lance Chambers]

This first
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Beautiful!

Mine was originally a tobacco sunburst finish but my a-hole dad painted it silver metallic. I wish I had throw-away cash. I would send it to Stew-Mac for a full restoration

 

[lespaul339]

My first guitar and amp setup was an Epiphone Les Paul Special II and a Marshall MG10. I still have the MG10, but unfortunately do not own the guitar anymore.

 

[Mitchell Pearrow]

Nice!!!! Wollensak t 1500 reel to reel.....i found one a month ago at an antiques shop for $10..... Salvaged a Raytheon BP 12ax7 out of it....was gonna make a guitar amp out of it but the circuit is to weird and I said screw it....but I stack pedals in front of it stock and a 1x10 cab for late nite practice.

Anyhow my 1st rig was a teisco Much like yours cept no tremolo and one pickup and a floral print on the pickguard. I got from my friends stepdad For $15 and plugged into a sound design AM/ FM receiver I had cause it had a 1/4" aux jack.

Sounds like the same Teisco I got in 1971, but pops splurged and bought me a Alamo amp with about a 5” speaker in it, it had 2 small tubes in it and a volume knob.
I thought I was Mark Farner !!
Cheers

 

[AlvisX]

Christmas 1978. Folks had access to instruments through their drug store, strangely. Thankfully they picked a Goya L6-S copy. 24 fret, thin neck, fast, so playable esp for a noobie. Still one of my faves and I even found a genuine 1975 L6-S to go with it.
Amp was a univox Stage 65, terrible little 20 watt thing.
A couple years later graduated to a Traynor TS200 with matching 9x8 cab. Can't recall what it sounded like.
Ultimately got a white 2203 half stack in 1983 new and never looked back.
2 old amps are stock pics.

One of my high school buddies had a TS200 full stack ......that's EIGHTEEN EIGHTS !!! He never sounded too good with that thing . I never fiddled with it though .I DID immortalize him in song . He drove his mom's Pontiac Ventura with that stack in there . I changed the car in the lyric to "Rollin up in a Maverick ,half stack in the back " .....because it rhymed with "Cowbell on a rack "

 

[Lance Chambers]

This was my first rig that I actually paid for.



'76 SG Standard and the almighty Musician 400 MIII. My high-school band mates (bass & lead) had one so I worked shitty jobs to buy one. It was a nice upgrade from the Harmony AE.

 

[Mitchell Pearrow]

In 1977-78 I had managed to become the proud owner of a Sunn Concert Lead with a 6-10 cab, and a Hondo ll LP copy.
Man I was on top of the world.
Till , late 78 and heard a Marshall 3 houses down from where we were jamming at.
Never been the same since !!
Cheers