The day you got your 1st guitar

Phill
Your Nana was a saint - she never knew you would  please so many people with your abilities and help poor souls like m along the way.
God Bless her!

Great Story !     

1976, I was 21, and my university flatmate gave me his Angelica acoustic guitar because he was leaving to take up a "real" job, and didn't want it any more. Nice guitar at the time, and the first song I learnt was Donovan's "Colors".     

That guitar in the video was my first acoustic guitar - but my first guitar was actually an electric.

I remember the day, but not the date, I think I was about 20 when I was working for a company where I drove around and fixed up computer terminals in service stations - I fixed them too efficiently and my boss used to tell me to drive about for 1 or 2 hours to build up the km's on the car (company tax reasons) and I'd often go to music stores. There was a particular store in Booragoon that I used to like - the shop owner was a disheveled guy who didn't use his antiquated til, and one day he'd charge you one price for something, then another time he'd quote you something different. He had wanted over $au200 for the new ones, and I got him on a good day (or maybe I bugged him too much?) and he charged my $au175 for a brand new black "Torch". Similar to this one:

Mine was all black, and sat mostly unused for about a year - I then moved into a new share flat and my housemate commented about the guitar and said a friend of his played, who visited sometime thereafter. We nutted out songs and sounded terrible, but we were making (kinda) music. Later my housemate left and I didn't think I'd see his friend again, but he came over a couple of weeks later, and we had others join us, which became the "Wednesday night jams" - my gf at the time had art classes on that day, and it ended up being a bit of a booze-up excuse. I think it was about a year after that, the same friend mentioned he knew another guy with a band, so we went to jam with them - and they asked me to join and do their first gig - a party on the next weekend. Their skill levels were on par with mine, and we got booed and had food thrown at us; but we persisted and got other gigs. That lead to me getting my first acoustic (I think it was to play Stairway to heaven) which is the one in the video.

I recently (2021!) caught up with that old band and we have some videos of that in the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXnUekJ … iuVdTHxkhT - although the singer didn't turn up ...

Cheers

Richard