Re: My *first* real electric !

Billy Pilgrim <wasup@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Restless Fingers Syndrome" <rfs@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Was in 1976 .. and it was just like this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230275776918

I think I paid $125 for it .. which was a *ton* of money then
for a 16 year old, new LP were in the $600 range if I recall.

Here's mine. Around the same time

http://www.ggjaguar.com/must65.htm

I don't remember how I got it.

I always liked mustangs, but when I decided to buy my first brand-name
guitar (in 1965), I went with this instead:

http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/web/our-catalogue/Rickenbacker/Electric-Guitars/item/3882

I've still got it; 43 years and three rounds of surgery later, here's
what it looks like:

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u267/rpleavitt/Rickenbacker450.jpg

It has served me well over the years. If I remember right, I paid $225
back then, which was similar in price to what Mustangs were going for at
the time.

Before that I had an old beat-up archtop acoustic jazz-type guitar in
which I had installed a pair of DeArmond single-coil pickups, similar to
what the really old Gretsches had.


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