Show the earliest pics of yourself with a guitar!

koneguitarist

After something Lixarto said regarding a picture he found with his tele 25 years ago.

 How about showing some of your first pics playing guitar.

Here is on of my first gigs with my old mans band about 78-79

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/bargoedboy/oldmansband.jpg I am on the Antoria J300 copy. Not even sure if I was plugged in.

Lixarto

You absolute swine!

Apart from one of me aged about 3 with my sister's acoustic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lixarto/img127.jpg

koneguitarist

) lovely we can date it by the T Shirt !

Antique_Guitars

Where are the nude photos?

koneguitarist

Later, down boy !

thermionic

I'm in the middle, with a borrowed Strat copy because the other guitar player stepped on my lead and ripped the pickguard-mounted jack socket on my Satellite. I think I was 15, the others are a year or so younger.

The drummer is none other than Gruff Rhys by the way!

GavRichList

This is a very scrawny and hairy me in 2005 playing the best telecaster I ever owned in my first band at summer sundae festival.

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff193/guitarsforminnaars/imagejpg1-23.jpg

57Deluxe

shamleess selfie in early 90s... on a proper SLR camera to boot!

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee301/snotmale/Life Stuff/smug_zps026df600.jpg

Hofner 457 circa 86. Roland Alpha Juno synth, MT32 module, Steinberg Pro24 v3 on ATARI 1040STf, Roland MIDI Drum Pad

[Deleted User]

1991 - 16 years old, with my first 'proper' guitar (though that is debatable) standing in the back garden.Saved for what seemed like years to afford it (though realistically it was about 4 months)

ESBlonde

About 1977 with my Woolworths (Audition) special semi.

Skipped

Outstanding thread.

Nowthen......who do I know that has a Scanner....?

jd0272

@ESBlonde that guitar looks flamin' great!

boogieman

 

1974 with my mate Ben on a Ned Callan bass and yours truly on the Woolworthscaster.

impmann

WOW! A (knobbly) Ned Callan bass... sweet!

Fretwired

Lixarto said:

You absolute swine!

Apart from one of me aged about 3 with my sister's acoustic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/Lixarto/img127.jpg

You are Walter Becker ...... cool pic .. really rock n' roll .. :-)

boogieman

Interesting that most of the pics are in the key of A.

57Deluxe

Skipped said:

Outstanding thread.

Nowthen......who do I know that has a Scanner....?

@Skipped - just take a pic of your pics with phone camera! (or hold up to PC webcam and do a grab)

ESBlonde

jd0272 said:

@ESBlonde that guitar looks flamin' great!

Appearances can be deceptive, but we knew no better then!

It started out as one of these,

and then one of the PUs died, so I swapped it for a cheap 70s no name humbucker after hacking out the top with a key hole saw!. A while later I replaced the front single coil with another cheap humbucker and hacked a further hole to put the single coil in the middle. one mini toggle switch was added then too. The trem arm was useless so I just took out the naff spring and put in a block of hardwood and removed the arm. I learned a lot (both playing and updating) with that guitar, it was a valuable tool which I carelessly  sold for £15 some time later. I was given my first semi pro lead guitarists job despite the guitar so it wasn't all bad. The neck was super slim and I thought it was OK until I got a job and a proper guitar which showed it for what it really was. I think I might have put in a bridge post too but it was over 35 years ago and my thingy isn't whatsit.

lamf68

Me in 1983/84  heavily under the Duran Duran influence and no doubt some mushrooms or other hallucinogen, John Taylor Hair,and frilly shirt were far more important than the vox bass I was playing at the time. It was all about the Girls

horse

Here's some of me from the 90s captured from video. Top 2 are with a Yamaha RGZ621 which I've mentioned here before, bottom left MIJ 62RI strat (although you'd be hard pressed to tell) and bottom right with a Gordon Smith a few years later with less hair (1996 at a guess)

http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h411/tramp5/Old-Guitar-Video-Montage.jpg

@geepers0677 - thought these might amuse you

impmann

lamf68 said:

Me in 1983/84  heavily under the Duran Duran influence and no doubt some mushrooms or other hallucinogen, John Taylor Hair,and frilly shirt were far more important than the vox bass I was playing at the time. It was all about the Girls

You mean it isn't still all about the Girls?