I received my first guitar as a graduation from high school gift from my father and mother. My dad purchased a 7-year-old 1964 Gibson SG Standard and a Fender Bandmaster amplifier head and dual speaker cabinet for $500 from George G. Daniel. George had paid $300 for the guitar alone in 1964, I guess. My dad paid to have two new Jensen 12-inch speakers installed in the cabinet.
I tried teaching myself about the guitar, but I needed some bootstrapping help in the beginning. A friend of mine showed me the A, A minor, B, C, D, E, F, and G chords and some bar chords. He also showed some major scales.
Since I was ripped off in Atlanta, Georgia while trying to buy a pound of pot for $400, I knew the dope man would be angry and I would have to pay him back the $400. I promptly took my Fender Bandmaster amp and cabinet to a pawn shop in Columbus, Georgia to recoup some of the money I owed an angry illegal drug dealer. The year was 1972, I seem to recall. Anyway, I tried to get my dad to pay off the pawn ticket on the amp, but he refused. The night of my dad’s refusal I went totally stark raving angry and I was so mad I broke the neck of my beautiful first guitar. I remember there were two police cars each a block from my parents’ and my house at 601 Hill Street, LaGrange, Georgia during my tirade.
My dad much later paid for the Gibson SG to be repaired by a competent luthier in Atlanta, but I wanted the guitar sent back to Gibson for better repair job. I played that guitar sans an amplifier until about 1980 then I put down the guitar for twenty years. In 2000 my mother supplied me the funds to buy an inexpensive Martin D-1 acoustic guitar for roughly $800. Then in 2001 she paid for me to obtain a Fender America Deluxe Stratocaster electric guitar for around $1,020 and a Fender Deluxe Reverb amplifier. I practiced guitar most days from 2000 until 2010.
More information about my guitars to come in later text to be added to this blog entry.
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