The Guitars I REGRET Selling MOST!
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I actually had to sell my first guitar pretty recently, but i'm okay about it, I wasn't super attached to it, it was just a basic Squier strat in candy apple red, I called it Rosie, after AC/DC's Whole Lotta Rosie. I got it as part of a starter kit to start learning on.
The guy that bought it was looking for something basic for his daughter to start learning on, they came to collect it one evening and they were really happy with it, the expression on the girls face was one of complete joy and excitement, and I could tell she was grateful to her dad for getting it for her (I sold them the whole kit guitar, amp, gig bag, cable etc) it made me happy that a dad was supporting his daughters desire to learn, something I was sorta denied as a kid, so ultimately it was a positive experience for me, my only regret is that the money had to be put towards bills etc rather than a bass like I wanted haha.
I'm way more attached to my 2nd guitar, a black Gibson SG that I'd saved up for with left over money from the Download Festival in 2019, so hopefully i'll never have to sell it, I would regret that for sure.
At least u sold yours. I’ve pawned some of mine. 😂
That's exactly what you hope for when selling: that it finds a good home. Nicely done! 😀👍
Please know that I say this respectfully.... I think that you are too young to understand the regret of selling your first guitar. Many years down the road, and after you've had many other guitars, some probably even very expensive, you will think about the guitar that you began your journey with and you might become sad. You might come to realize that your first guitar, even if not well-made, or expensive, was the one that you took your first guitar steps with. You might find that there is more meaning and symbolism in that guitar than you originally thought. Four years ago I purchased a guitar pedal that I had been looking to get for a long time. The pedal was a Danelectro Daddy-O. The person who sold me this pedal contacted me after four years and asked if i would sell the pedal back to him. He explained to me that it was the first distortion pedal that he purchased and he only sold it out of a need for money. He even offered to pay me five times what I paid for it! I told him to keep the extra money and to just give me back what I originally paid for it. As much as I loved this pedal, I knew that my love for it paled when compared to the connection he had for this pedal. I'm not saying this to make you feel badly, but rather, to clarify that sometimes what we feel today, is not what we end up feeling down the road. I say all respectfully.
THAT is the kind of case where I could see myself selling, or even gifting, my first guitar. When you know it would go to someone who's in actual need of one and will play the hell out of it
I felt the same about my first guitar. 30 years later I'm scouring the country to find it again. That candy apple red strat will haunt your dreams one day!
This is why I'm NEVER selling my guitars, great video, man!!
Agree man, I still have my first 4 guitars and 26 others so I’m def with you on never selling even the ones I don’t play much I keep.
It really isn’t worth it. You’re always losing money on it.
Just go to a music store and get a new guitar of the same model. Problem solved
@@slopcrusher3482 no. Ive made profit plenty of times. Especially lately since prices went up
or any gear. man I sold my mpc live thinking I was gonna get a sweet drum kit with the money. money got tight after I sold it and that mpc turned into grocery and bills. and I got it for a used for a steal and ended up making money on the sale. I was so proud. now I just think of all the sick beats I couldve made on that beast, let alone run thinks through it for the endless effects. :C
The only guitar that I kind of regret selling, which I actually pawned, was my first guitar. We were super broke, and I sold the guitar in order to buy groceries. I don't regret it totally because we got to eat and I found a really good job the following week, so we bounced back nicely. The guitar was a Lotus, Les Paul copy, which I do own again today. And, even though the second guitar is almost identical to the first, it's just not my first guitar.
I have tried not to dwell on the loss of that guitar, and I have since come to believe that somehow, maybe losing that guitar was a blessing. Because, in my quest to find this same guitar again, I came across so many other really nice guitars that I ended up buying. So, in my quest to find a copy of my first guitar, I was led to all of these other guitars which I ended up buying. I am pretty sure that the guitars that I ended up buying is something that would not have happened had I not lost my original Lotus LP copy.
Today, I have about 35 guitars in my collection, but at one time it was closer to 80 guitars. I have since donated about 15 guitars and amps to students and music schools because I think it's important to help musicians who can't afford instruments. I also don't think that I would have been prone to donations had I not pawned my first guitar. So yes, I do believe that it's kind of been a blessing.
And, as much as I love the guitars that I own today, I also don't want to get so attached to them that I can not part with them for the betterment of others. I recently gave my son a Gibson ES-355, Johnny Marr replica guitar, which I really loved. I bought this guitar because I am a huge fan of Johnny Marr, but I gave it to my son because I am an even bigger fan of his! Even though I loved that guitar, I want to be able to do things like that without any kind of regret. I've tried to turn regret into something positive, and I am hoping that I will still feel this way in the future.
The one I regret selling was a white Washburn Solar V that was Ola's signature before he started his company. It was kinda like that wand scene from Harry Potter cause it just fit me so perfectly and felt immaculate to play. But I had some financial troubles one year and sold a few guitars including that one. I really wish I kept it. I've been looking at the newer Solar ones but I'm kinda afraid I'm going to buy one and it's not going to live up to my memory.
Hey, man sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do even if it might not feel it's the right choice but yeah V's are some of my favorite playing guitars especially the pointy ones.
@@totallynotjohn8083 I have my first v, a jackson king v and it so amazing. Pro series but wish I could find me a Japanese or American made one
That Yamaha you had was almost certainly an RGX of some sort rather than a Pacifica.
I've had a few guitars that I missed greatly after selling.
The first and most important was my 3rd ever guitar, my 1993 Jackson Dinky in the stone finish (which was only available for a couple years).
I had seen it in a local music store and immediately fell in love with it. It played great and really fit the music I liked to play. My dad bought it for me at like 500 bucks or something.
I eventually sold it to a music store on the way home from a Guitar Center because I wasn't sure I was going to make it home (I had no gas money).
I took only 150 dollars for it, with the case, and then the guy handed me a check. It was an all-around bad deal for me, and I have no idea why I didn't at least ask for cash.
At the very least, I didn't run out of gas on the way home.
That story has a happy ending though. Once the regret set in, I started tracking stone finish Jacksons on eBay and Reverb for a couple years until I finally found the same model again in 2020.
It's been my main guitar since, and I've recently had Dimarzios put in.
Another guitar I regret selling is my Epiphone Les Paul Standard Pro. It was in a blue burst finish that was gorgeous. Most of the ones I had seen had flamed maple, but that one was quilt.
I think that guitar had the best sound and playability of any guitar I've owned for a variety of styles. The Jackson is clearly best for shreddy distorted stuff, and the same goes for any other really quality instruments I've had. This Epiphone had a lot more variety, and I haven't been able to fill the void it left.
I traded it at a guitar show for a Gibson SG Special, which I later realized had been repainted and had a neck repair.
That SG played horribly, and the pickups were so hot they were unusable with any of my presets. They said Gibson on them, but they were really bad.
I don't regret getting rid of that guitar, but I do regret eventually selling the guitar I traded it for.
I was traded an ESP LTD EC-CZ-II Clockwork Zombie guitar, which was a limited-run Eclipse model (It's kinda like the EC-1000).
It had EMGs, which I've never had before or since. It could be tuned down pretty far and still sound pretty good.
I used it as my main guitar for a little while, alongside a DBZ Guitar which I only sold recently.
I sold it because, at the time, I didn't really want to do much metal stuff.
It's a bummer that I got rid of it because nowadays it would be a godsend for recording.
Thankfully, I've been much more careful about what guitars I keep and sell recently.
It turns out, even if you like a guitar, there's sometimes a point where it's just not going to be of much use anymore.
I recently sold my DBZ guitar and my Burny Sustainer guitar, which were both very good and got a lot of use for years.
However, I don't regret selling them. I got everything out of them I was going to get. It was time to move on.
Now, I only have 2 guitars and one bass (My original Stinger Betacaster, the Jackson, and the bass is a recent Jackson JS2).
I wish I had a bit more variety, and I do miss some of those other guitars, but I have all I really need.
(thanks for reading if you did. I know it's wordy. I'm not good at cutting out the fluff).
A friend gave me a guitar that, though not super expensive, was just right for me. But for some reason, when I was trying to reduce my stuff, I thought I had given it to Good Will. For years I regretted my mistake. Then one day, during a move, I opened up a hard guitar case I had lying around and there it was. I was so happy. I learned my lesson and still have it.
My first guitar was a Christmas gift when I was about 10. My parents got divorced about 3 years later and my mother sold all my stuff at a yard sale while I was with my dad. I am 47 now and I found an identical match on EBay. 🤘Guitars are art🤘
Man, what's with moms doing that.
I had a 70s Japanese Greco Strat copy at one point that I ended up selling when I was in a tight financial spot. I sold it to a local musician who still owns and plays it, so on one hand I'm glad that it went to someone who appreciates it, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't hugely regret it. Sometimes tough choices had to be made, even if you later regret them.
I had a 90s charvel in the 90s. It was mettalic fleck green with emgs and a maple fretboard. It basicly played itself it was so nice. And i pawned it to pay rent and then didnt have the money to get it back. I got 1k for it and he put it at 2k in his shop and it sold in like a week! I was heartbroken!! THANKS FOR BRINGIN IT UP MAN! 😆
Yeah rough stuff! I never had really expensive guitars but I always miss them when they're gone
This video is really affirming because my experience is a little different.
I was set to trade my Charvel TX Custom (tele style, with ivory pick guard) for an Ibanez RG. I found the Ibanez on craigslist and had communicated with the person selling/ trading it. We were set to meet up the next day when I suddenly got cold feet. I texted the guy and told him I was sorry, but I didn’t think I could trade the guitar. He was super gracious replying, “I totally understand… I’ve been there, and I’ve regretted letting some guitars go in the past.”
I don’t play that guitar a ton, but it does have a lot of sentimental value. Every time I do play it I’m glad I didn’t let it go. I ended up buying an Ibanez RG that I traded for a different RG. I’m very happy that I made the trade, and so is my friend who traded with me. Win/ win!
Great video…really enjoyed it
For me, it was a beautiful, purple Ibanez RG I bought in Japan. It had great action and an amazing sound even with the stock pick-ups.
i started playing when i was really young, got my first 2 electric guitars around 9 or 10. i stopped playing for more than a decade, and the guitars just sat around collecting dust at my mom’s house, and then at my ex’s. i though about selling them so many times, never thought i’d have a use for them again and just saw them as an emergency fund. well, i picked up playing again a little over a year ago, and i’m so grateful i didn’t get rid of them. whatever forgettable amount of cash i would have gotten for them pales in comparison to the amount of joy they give me now. definitely influenced my approach to buying and selling, i try to be really considerate before picking something up or moving something along. haven’t been hit with a regretful sale yet, but im sure it’ll happen to me eventually haha
oh! the guitars were a Tregan Shaman and a Stadium super strat style guitar (MIK by Saein, model number is WF510 or something) both relatively unknown brands, but the Stadium is my most played guitar now, has a killer neck and super dope tree of life inlay.
I have three: A Rickenbacker 4001 bass, a Washburn Nuno Bettencourt model, and a Gibson custom shop Flying V with a Kahler trem.
The Yamaha guitar you had was probably the RGX 321FP. My model is the RGX 121FP, it has a huge Yamaha logo on the headstock like you said. Great guitar indeed. I've upgraded mine with emg kit zakk wylde. Sounds awesome.
I have a Yamaha RGZ, which also looks pretty similar to the guitar he was playing in the video, except my headstock was natural with the big logo in black. Great guitars!!!
Love your vids man!
Custom 1982 Gibson Flying V. Hurts even admitting this.
Great video, I love your content! I love your John Mayer techniques video.
I havent sold any of mine but hearing your stories was like walking through time. It reminded of where I was and the circumstances behind obtaining my axes.
My very first guitar was bought off a street busker by my mom when I was 15. I'd love to know the guitars story or his reason for selling it to her. Itd probably make me sad though.
Thanks for sharing Mikey.
Thanks a lot for this video. I've been fighting myself because of my money today's situation and the possibility of having to sell one of my guitars. And i've thinking a lot "will i have the option of getting it back?" "will I really regret it?" And as I haven't seen other people having that guitar I feel special for owning it. (It's an EVH Striped Star, black and white). So with this video I'll do my best to hold on.
Yep , had to sell an ESP(not LTD) custom shop Truckster. That guitar was so good to play, felt perfect in the hands and played beautifully. If i looked at my guitars and wanted a quick noodle, I'd always pick that one up. Looked them up now and they are all going for crazy prices. Such is life
I still have me first squier strat and I’m so glad I never sold it. I still have the next 15 guitars I bought too unfortunately. Love you Mike, you are such a great guitarist and my favorite CZcams channel.
the right kind of hoarder in my opinion XD
I had found a Jackson Rhodes in the late 90's and was just starting to really play. I paid 400 bucks and went on my merry way. Eventually I walked into a music store with it and the guy offered to buy it from me for $1000, and I took the bait as I was short on money at that point and he preyed on my desperation. Come to find out it was a USA custom shop, he knew and I didn't, and the music shop fleeced me. I'm still bitter about that one to this day, 25 years later.
My first guitar was a Harmony late 80's strat Fingerhut catalog guitar. Tobacco sun burst. Still have it to this day!
I still have my first guitar I bought 25 years ago, never bought another one. It's a cheap squire strat. Also I have the same crate amp you showed earlier. Few months later I bought a Korg ax300g multi effect pedal, and I remember how amazing it was at the time, and I still have it and it works flawlessly. You can make your own chains of effects and modify them really easily, plus it has a small expression pedal which can be assigned to different parameters.
I had an Epiphone Les Paul Custom that I worked really hard and saved up for when I was 14-15. Around my mid 20s there were a few years when I wasn't really playing that much but was really into audiophile gear and low on cash so I traded it to someone looking for a first guitar for their daughter. I traded for a set of Beyerdynamic DT 990 headphones and an O2 DAC/amp. I had so many great memories made on that thing and still check the classifieds every day for it.
Three Ibanez's. ICX-220DX Iceman, broken in half by an ex. MIJ RG 470, sold when I was a teenager and I didn't know any better. RG3EXFM1, was a gift from my father, but I was so broke at the time I traded it for an Epiphone LP with a roadcase because I was going on a short tour and needed a guitar with a roadcase.
My biggest regret was selling my Squier Active 5 String Jazz bass. It was the first 5 string bass I owned and even though I’ve moved on from it and I’ve owned and sold quite a few guitars and basses afterwards that are higher end per se, it was the first bass that I first started gigging with in my first bands and I felt it was when I took the biggest step as a musician. I really wish I had kept it in college and had modded it cause it was such a reliable and sentimental instrument to me. I’m thankful that I still have my first guitar even though it’s broken, but I do hope one day to mod it which is an Epiphone Les Paul Junior. (from like 2005 I think?)
Man those guitars are all beautiful
I've cycled through so many guitars, I don't really have any regrets though because what I like has changed so much over the years.
Before I ever learned how to play I always wanted a Gibson sg, I learned guitar on a strat copy, years later I got my first job and saved until I could afford an sg, initially I loved it, until I played some other guitars and I realized how much neck dive sg's have. I was a les Paul guy for a few years after that, I went through a telecaster phase, then I was a die hard strat player for over a decade, now I'm trading everything for jazzmasters and don't really play anything else lol.🤷
I do still have my first sg that I bought when I was 15 though, I don't often play it anymore, it's basically an autograph book now that I take with me and have signed whenever I get backstage at a big show.
I own the Alpine White Kramer Jersey Star because of a livin on a prayer live performance in 1987 and it got me hooked on Bon Jovi ever since then.
Ah yes!
The MusicYo Kramers!
I had a Js too
I still have an '86 Baretta
Around 1993, I saved up for a B.C. Rich Gunslinger/Assassin that was awesome. It was black, with like a glittery finish, so it's colour appeared blue, purple, green with bits of orange depending on how light hit it. Was a most lovely guitar. Eventually I wound up trading it toward an Ibanez about a year later.
I started watching your bad tablature videos and alot of the old books from the 80's you use are the exact same ones I had been given by my father when I was a kid. The ozzy tribute one looked EXACTLY like the one I learned from. But in regards to this particular vid, my dad owned a Jackson polka-dot randy Rhoads V and a few years back tried to sell it and I had a similar experience to yours where I had to run around trying to get it back from staples before they sold it for him on ebay...long story short its now in my possession 😊. Love the content Mike!
My first electric was a 1997 Ibanez RX series. I put EMG 81’s in it. Still have it❤️🙏
Dude, In 1996, I bought an ESP MII Deluxe. It was $1,799 at the time and got it at Granny’s Music in OKC for $950 brand new with a case! 3 years later, I traded it for an Epiphone Les Paul Custom. I was looking for a different sound, and that is one of my top 5 regrets in life. My 18 year old self was an idiot.
Great video. I am grateful to still have my first acoustic and electric guitars. (Kay G101/Peavey Raptor Exp)
I've been playing guitar for 20 ish years and man this video had some relatable and wholesome stories
I gave away my first guitar, the guy didn't even bother learning how to play it, a few years later i found he left it at a friend's place, i got the train and brought my baby back home. It's a cheap, rugged, hard to play piece if fxcking wood but i love it, it was THE DREAM come true starting off.
Tje the one I regret getting rid of was an old Memphis strat copy. It was a neck through, had bill Lawrence blade pups, with coil taps, and it was mahogany with a rosewood board. It played like a dream, and I could get ANY sound I wanted. I miss it.
My first guitar was an off-white Kramer Striker I bought from my roommate's HS best friend, and former bandmate, for $100. It had a Kahler tremelo that he bought new that was worth more than the guitar was. The Kramer had taken a few slides off the amps and furniture he'd lean it against so the neck would shift now and then and I'd have to yank it back into tune. Usually, it stayed "fixed" for days if not weeks, no glue or anything. The neck pickup he'd dropped so low that one of the screws had fallen out so it would wobble around in the cavity, not that it ever got used. I had it for probably 10 years and for all its faults it was still a great guitar. Fantastic neck, the frets were great, and the bridge pickup sounded great.
I worked at a 2nd-hand store where we got a lot of guitars in, 99% of which were lower-end models. Egad, so many Squier Bullet Strat POS'es... I ended up trading it (and $80) for an almost new Washburn N1 that came in. I still have that N1 and it plays awesome! I just wish I still had that 1st guitar just for sentimentality's sake, and so my daughter could play the same guitar I learned on.
The only other guitar I wish I hadn't sold was an immaculate red Fender Tele (with the hard case) that had come into the store. My boss sold it to me for $100. The economy crashed a year later, my wife and I were both out of jobs, and we had a new baby, and we had no idea if one or both of us would have a job anytime soon and the unemployment was going to end not that far off. So I sold it for $600 because that was food on the table for a while. Had I known that my wife would get her job back a few short weeks later I would have kept it. No regrets, though. But damn that was a great guitar!
Your Yamaha was most likely an RGX/RGZ model. They were played at the time by Blues Saraceno, who may have had a signature version finished in plaid.
I had a Jackson DK2. It had a maple neck with shark fin inlays. The japanese made neck was so nice. Your main guitar reminds me of that guitar every time.
I don't think that it was Pacifica, but some kind of Yamaha rgx Modell. They were produced before Pacificas in the late 80s, early 90s. And they were more shred than strat type, and yes, some of them had Floyd rose. Google them, they're not that expensive nowadays.
My Schecter C6 Elite. It's such a "low-end" guitar but it played so perfectly after I put some work in. The maple top and color was perfect, the neck felt amazing, everything just felt perfect and that guitar got me through some really rough breakups. I ended up losing it when I lost my storage unit out in North Carolina after I lost my job.
Taylor 314CE. I learned guitar on an electric (Squier strat) and didn't own an acoustic until I had been playing for years. Finally bought one, saved up for a Taylor 314CE, which is a very good acoustic, but there was something about the one I got, it just sung. Owned it for 15 years, can't even estimate how many hours I played on it. Loved that guitar. Had to sell it in 2020 because I desperately needed the money after Covid messed everything up. Guy I sold it to seemed to really love it, so I'm glad it went to a good place, but man, wish I didn't have to sell that guitar.
I had a PRS CE 22…it was made in the old Annapolis factory (ca. 1996)…thats the one I regret the most…I still look for it on the web to this day!!!!
Still have my original Ibanez V50 acoustic. It's a beater but I still love it. I ended up selling 3-4 of my guitars including a Seagull 12 string because my wife told me I could buy a Martin D45 if I "sold all those guitars you have around." Sold, bought, and that playing that Martin sounds like the Angels are playing it. Great video Mike!
This is why I don't sell any music gear. No neck dive on 1985 V220 with Kahler. Your videos and instruction/insights are the best. Carvin X100-B to the max (series III)
Great story man, I miss loads of guitars I’ve had & am currently trying to make up for them . I had a jackson like yours in neon pink, one in rainbow crackle and one in green crackle ,miss them so much , & my green meanie charvels
My first ever "real" guitar was a black Gibson SG Special that my parents bought for me as Christmas gift at that same Guitar Center in Roseville in the mid 90's. I sold it just so I could buy a guitar with a single coil pup that I wanted at the time. I've sold several guitars and thats the one I regret losing the most. So much history with that guitar, and Gibson doesn't make them in that finish anymore.
My first ever electric guitar was an epiphone les paul sl and I ended up selling it to one of my friends who wanted to start playing guitar and I sold it because I needed the money. The reason I regret selling it is becuase I got it for free from my algebra teacher last year during my Sophmore year of high school, I remember almost crying when I first got it and while that guitar was cheap and wasn't the best, it really made me wanna practice and it had a lot of value to me. Eventually I upgraded to a Jackson js32t king v which I got as a chirstmas gift from my dad and is one of my favorite playing guitars that I've played/owned.
The one I regret selling was an Epiphone Les Paul Studio. It was my first "serious" electric guitar after some soviet one I got from my uncle. I was 18 then and I bought an Ibanez SZ520 (18th birthday!) which was (and still is) my dream guitar. I thought that I don't need that Les Paul anymore so I sold it to a luthier who kind of fell in love with that guitar. I didn't know that this heavy-ass axe was made in Bohemia Musico-Delicia in Czech Republic and Epiphones made there were considered of higher quality - some people even claim that these were on par with Japanese ones.
I learned about this when out of curiosity I checked the serial number on the Internet and it occured to me that I sold a very nice (and kind of rare) guitar.
I regret selling my 1985 Ibanez Roadstar II (RS-440) that I bought brand new in '85. The pickups were weak but it was red and had a tremolo (I was really into Brad Gillis back then). I'd beat the hell out of that tremolo and it stayed in tune.
The other guitar I regret selling is a white Steinberger Spirit that I got from MusicYo for $229. I want one again but can't find one in white, and the other Spirits I see for sale are all $600 or more.
When I was about 5 years old my grandpa bought a red mini squire strat to teach my cousins and I. I loved it and wanted my own. I saved Christmas/ birthday money and ended up getting the $100 needed to buy one. When I got into middle school I ended up getting an SG as a gift and later on a parts-caster tele from my grandpa. In high school I decided I had too much stuff and didn't need that mini squire so I sold it + the 15g amp it came with for like $50. (Probably 2015/16-ish).
It's now been a little over a year since my grandpa died and while it is nice to have the tele I got from him I do wish I had kept my first guitar. That's what he taught me on and he was the one that drove me to go buy it.
It doesn't bug me all that much. The guitar went to a little girl who's dad was teaching her to play and I'm glad it got put to good use. Just wish I still had it.
I sold an early 2000’s Jackson SL3 in orange sunburst. The one that got away for sure. I can still picture what the neck felt like in my hands.
First electric guitar Fender Telecaster butterscotch guitar center edition, the cool part about it was the pickup switch and knobs were actually flipped. Sold it to complete the down payment on a manufactured home and recently purchased a Pacifica. I miss it but definitely enjoying the lightness compared to the tele 😂
My 1st guitar was a Harmony Explorer black with a red pinstripe.. It had a cheap Floyd rose which is probably why I sold it.. I've had some incredible guitars since but I had a 2011 Fender strat pro 1107 in 3 tone sunburst & 70's headstock, what a stunning guitar & played like a dream..wish I had that back.. 🤘💀🤘
1982 ibanez blazer series…..hard tail …maple neck….played like a dream….I bought it new and traded it for a Les Paul copy of some sort…I think it was a saga….wish I had it back
My first guitar was a Peavey Predator with HSS pickup configuration. Needless to say I definitely don't regret selling it at all. I did see one used at a Guitar Center many years later, took it down and played on it a bit. For a budget guitar those were really well-made and solid!
If there's one guitar I kind of miss, it's a red BC Rich Mockingbird that was from roughly 1983/84. I bought it used in 2000 for about $300, and the previous owner had installed SD Invader pickups!
My older sister gave me her Squier strat when it was clear she wasn't interested. I fell in love with guitar and bought a used Ibanez AXS32 (very underrated budget guitar!). She then sold the strat. I was sad at the time, but now kind of relieved I don't still have it.
I bought a Jackson Kelly XL in Dark Metallic Blue from that same Guitar Center off of Snelling. I ended up selling it to a pawn shop 😭
Glad to say I still have my first it was a Yamaha121p or something like that from early 91
My first guitar was a Kent (I think it was a Sears brand) copy of an SG. I hated that guitar but I learned so much with it. I basically destroyed it, taking it apart and putting it back together so many times. I don’t really remember what happened to it…it was 40 years ago. I don’t regret not having it today as I still don’t like SGs.
I’ve only ever gotten rid of two other guitars, both of which I sold about the same time as I was hard up for money. One was a Fender Malmsteen and the second was a 12 string Martin, don’t remember the model off the top of my head but it played like a dream, better than many electric guitars I have played. I definitely regret having sold it, so much so that I vowed never to sell another.
I have 14 guitars now and while I almost never play anymore I don’t have any plans to sell any of them. I’ll give them to my kids when they’re ready if they want to play. If my kids don’t want them I’ll donate them to a school or something someday but I won’t ever sell them.
I bought a charvel Deluxe 275 Dinky, with the same pickup configuration as your V from the guitar center in Roseville too! I think around 1990-91
I'm thankful for my younger self for never letting go of my 1st guitar
I knew back then that I would be grateful today
My buds got one of those first run Yamaha Pacificas. The name was defiantly bigger on the head stock. This friend of mine is a real player. Graduated MIT, and that $200. Pacifica is his #1
I brought my partner a Yamaha Pacifica a few years ago. It came with a 10 watt vox. She hardly ever plays it now. Her son has showed interest in guitar recently and now he use’s it.
I loved Yamaha Pacifica guitars. Never owned one but I always played them in the stores.
I was just at that Roseville guitar center 😄
ESP LTD M-401. I sold it when I moved across country because I was limited what I could take on the plane. I was the original owner of it, and made upgrades to the pickups and got it broke in just the way it was comfortable for me. I miss that guitar.
With all of my Christmas money and a little help from my mom, when I was 8 years old I got a white Dean Flying V copy from my local guitar store, because Zack from School Of Rock had a white Flying V and that was my favorite movie. It was one of the best days of my childhood and I still remember seeing it and picking it out and trying it out in the store. When I was 12 or so I wanted to sell it to buy some airsoft guns but I never did and I am incredibly thankful God did not let that happen lol, I still have it and I’m so glad I do because I’m very attached to it coming from that part of my childhood. I also love my Mom and my Dad for supporting my rockstar dreams when I was that age, and ever since.
I had an Ovation Ultra GS, a cheap Korean electric guitar from the '80's, but I must have got lucky because it had just the best buttery action, great tone and pickups and a Floyd Rose that stayed in tune. Loved that guitar.
I pawned it and it was stolen from the pawn shop during a break-in. They paid me $40, which was what I pawned it for.
I still miss it.
I sold my 1987 Charvel Model 6 in Black Cherry after some medical problems. I’ve bought plenty of guitars since, and almost bought another Model 6, but it will never be that same guitar that I had put so many hours into.
Sorry about your axes! 54 fender lapsteel here. Totally get it
I'm quite happy the guitar i own now (which is a Squier CV Jazzmaster), but sometimes i wish i saved up a litle bit more for an Ibanez JS240, that was like 30% off on price and was in a really good in condition aswell. That thing is really fun to play and is super rare now in my country
nothing beats a jazzmaster
This was a great video
Thinking back the one guitar I regret selling was an Ebony 2002 (I think it was 2000 or 2002) Gibson Les Paul Standard - It was basically tied to fundage and I needed to sell it, but before I did that I had to ask myself what is it about it that I did not like. The Les Pauls are my favorite guitar - I have bunch of them. For some reason this one did not feel right in my hands - I am not sure why - most do but this oddly did not so I sold it. I regret it because at that time - I was not saavy enough to do setups on my own so I did not know any better. Others I sold I do not regret selling for similar reasons;and they were not being played enough.
I only have one regret: the 1982 Les Paul Custom my parents scraped up to get me for my birthday. I grew to dislike the scale of Gibson guitars, so I'm sure I would've sold it by now anyway, but I regret doing it back then. I traded it for a Hamer flying V that I promptly ruined with "modifications" that I didn't have the skill or tools to do properly.
I have never listed out my guitars before, I'll give it a shot.
Fender Squier Stratocaster w/gig pack (case, wires, strings, practice amp with fuzz setting)- 1995, $350
Martin Acoustic/Electric (named AUBURN) - 1998, $300 (gave away for free to a student who came from nothing)
Gibson SG Standard (named SPITFIRE) - 2002, $700 (sold for $100 to best friend when I switched to drums for a few years)
Yamaha Acoustic/Electric - 2004, $400
Gibson Flying V 1981 '67 Reissue (used) - 2005, $1100 (sold for $200 to best friend when I switched to drums... I REGRET THIS ONE, that thing SHREDDED even if it was impossible to play sitting down and hard to move around on stage)
Gibson Firebird (named GATOR) - 2014, $900
Gibson ES-335 (named RED VELVET) - 2022, my 40th birthday gift to myself, $3600 (my dream guitar even if Marty McFly plays an ES-345 and the neck is a little thicker than I'd like)
Ibanez is my go to brand. I bought two Soundgear 6-string basses and had to sell them to move. One of them I custom ordered with gold hardware (back in the 90's when you could still do that). I then bought a series of unsuitable 4-strings (a GTX, a Warlock, a Squire), a couple of 5-string acoustics (Dean, Michael Kelly), a Rogue 6-string, a Squire MB5, then a Dean Edge 6 that I grudgingly owned for over a decade because nobody would buy it. I then bought a Gio 6-string.
My only problem with Gios is the Phat II bass EQ. I want a completely passive bass, not something that's half active half passive. I hate having to waste money on batteries for a feature I'll never use.
When I was first starting out I had a light purple Ibanez Gio my Dad bought for me from a guitar shop when we were on holiday and when I got home and hooked it up to my Marshall amp my mind was blown just how chunky it sounded with the humbucker compared to my single coil Squier Strat. I gave it to my friend and he left it at his old house when he moved away!!! “I can’t….it’s a GIO!!!!”
I regret selling my squier 51 and my iceman. It was an ICX model, nothing to write home about, but looking back it was such a unique guitar and I’ve never been able to find another.
Ibanez Jem. One of the first ones. The yellow one with the pyramids. Sold it in the middle of the grunge era. People we’re screwing their faces up at it at gigs. Still crying to this day.
In order of regret from most regret to least regret:
1998 Peavey Wolfgang Special. My first new guitar, after having played for 9 years. That was my main guitar until 2004. It was one of the gold ones where the paint started bubbling, I had it repainted, and it just lost the vibe so I sold it. It's now apparently somewhere in Australia.
1979 Gibson Les Paul Standard. It wasn't a super clean collectible. It had been re-fretted, finish worn off the neck, big chip in the face. Still, it played and sounded great. I used it on a lot of recording. Eventually I needed the money so I sold it back to the previous owner under the condition that if he ever needed money, he offer it to me first.
2002 Gibson Faded V. This one had the ebony fretboard with crescent moon inlays. I had to fix the headstock on this one and after doing so I stripped what finish there was on it so it was just reddish-brown. Played a lot of gigs with that guitar and wound up selling it to the guitar player from the bay area thrash band "Defiance". I bought another one to replace it, but it's not the same.
1987 Kramer NightSwan. That guitar sounded great - it was probably my favorite distorted guitar tone I've gotten from any guitar I've owned. Unfortunately, it had the R1 nut so it was like playing a mandolin. Also, during a band photo shoot in January, some cold air got into the case and cracked the finish (lightning sky). I sold it for $250 to a friend. They're going for thousands now.
My first real good guitar was a cherry red epiphone sg (old headstock, got it like 4-5 years ago in high school) and when I finally saw the deal of a lifetime (to me at least) on my dream MiM black strat I got it and for the longest time considered selling the sg. I didn’t and ended up messing with it so much putting in different eBay pickups learning to set it up etc that I prob couldn’t even sell it. Nowadays for some reason I play it so much more, I’m so happy I didn’t sell it and spend the money on weed or smth
My biggest regret was selling away my first real amp. Got it for free from my high school since they didn’t need it anymore. It was a no name tube amp head with two stacks. Crystal clean sound. But alas, I was never a gig player and I didn’t have space for it when I moved.
The guitar @ 4:05 looks like to me a Yamaha RGX 421M if that is helpful. And I would say it was made from 1990 -1995.
The one that I would still like to have is a Yamaha RGX 1212s from 1988 it was made in Taiwan purple metallic.
After many years I found a Black metallic 1212s to replace it.
My first Electric guitar was a Harmony too. It was an SG copy.
had Niles Lofgren's Art Deco Kramer Pacer, actually belonged to NL, here in New Jersey, there used to be a Kramer Factory, it was translucent green, solid maple body, had a neck like a baseball bat, and a gold Floyd
I always think of that one when I build a guitar
I had a campfire classical guitar in back of my Malibu wagon. I was a drummer and used it percussive before the percussive stuff was mainstream. I wasn't nearly as good though but it was alot of fun. I was going out with buddy to a party. Went through a downtown road in Biloxi MS. Division street ....A bunch of asshats surrounded by car and tried to sell us crack. We were like no thanks just passing through. Thanks. By the time I said thanks the youngest of the 10 of them busted my back window and he grabbed the guitar out. On the passenger side one of them tried to grab the door handle so I floored it. This car had a 231 Chevy 3.8 v6 but the tires smoked and that dude held on while I reached speeds of 80 mph going down that road to get the f out of there. I was yelling let go when I slow down man!!!! Or I I will take us all out ..As soon as I slowed down he let go and that was 20 mph. He rolled a little but in the rearview mirror I could see he was relieved. I hope that taught him and the story he tells a lesson to those that do stupid shit like stealing or selling dope. My buddy lived in that area and was a bassist. I felt bad as I never picked him up again. Due to the car surely to be remembered. I sold that car eventually. Anyway that was the guitar I lost. However had it been my drumkit I would have gone back armed and took them all out. Trust me. I'm not bragging. But I've grown to hate people that are that stupid. In 05 I lost the drumkit I'm speaking about in hurricane Katrina. Storm took it all. When I stayed with friends since I lived in my mobile home during the warnings of getting to cover I came back next morning but couldn't get through due to trees down. Returned a week later to find not just mine, but all the others were nothing but slabs and garbage all over with dozers piling and dumping it all. I had NOTHING. That was the beginning of the end of my drumming. At that time I had played for 25 years. I was a proud drummer. I loved it. I moved to Ga and eventually got custody of my kids and all the money I had extra went to them. Buying my son guitars and daughter her stuff. I don't regret that. At all. I chose to pick up guitar in 2019 fully instead of trying to replace the drums and return. But I hope one day to get another kit and try to see if I still have it.
I've sold the only two electric guitars I'd ever had. Long story short, I hadn't really played them much for a few years and I was trying to get some money together for a big trip.
One was a Washburn strat style with a Floyd Rose. It was a pain in the butt changing strings, but super fun to just make dive bomb noises.
The other was a cherry red Epiphone SG style. I miss being able to play AC/DC style riffs on it.
I also sold a cheap classical guitar. I don't really miss it, but it was just something different.
Now that things have kind of settled down for me with work and family, I keep looking through Facebook marketplace for an electric guitar. I see numerous SG style guitars like the one I had as well as Jackson dinky guitars and they're so tempting.
My first real guitar was a blue 80's Westone Spectrum. I've been trying to find one online since and everytime I do, I don't have the money to buy it. Recently found one and put it in my Reverb cart. The price dropped down quite a bit and it was gone. It was in better shape than mine was. The thing was, I didn't sell mine. It had some nicks and dings in it and I thought I'd repaint it. Not only did I not repaint it very well, I didn't know how to wire it all back up, so I traded it in pieces to a guitar shop for a Washburn...which I ruined as well. I have a list of other guitars I've sold that I regret though.
I gave my nephew my first guitar because he was interested, a Bentley Series 10 in Desert Crackle. It wasn’t much, I’d had the headstock repaired but it was my first and I miss it. His mom pitched it 😡but he stuck with guitar and now plays out quite a bit 20 years later. So not all is lost I guess.
86 Ibanez roadstar II with a Floyd. I sold it because I didn't like the headstock shape. It had the best neck I have ever played...
😐 I'd love one. They're roughly €2k on reverb.
@@TheSWCantina I paid $600 AUD and thought it was a bit overpriced. I tried to negotiate but the guy at the music store wasn't interested. "It's got a Floyd" he said
It's hard to know what will become sought after vintage gear. I'd love to play one just to see what it feels like.
I had an early 1985 Japanese fender strat, the flagship model and it was great, I'd installed a Seymour Duncan stack humbucker in the middle the one that had one big magnet like a thick blade.
it got stolen but I went to do some stuff at a local studio and it was there, it had the same damage in the front bottom end id repaired and a knock on the 14 fret board where a Dunlop slide box hit it, I knew it was mine.
My dad offered to buy it back from them but how he was at the time he would have constantly thrown it in my face that he had to buy it back because I had let it get stolen on a burglary so I said forget it. I really regret it now as it was the guitar l learnt on, I got it when I started to take guitar seriously and it was my first guitar, I'd just played borrowed one until then, it was a fantastic guitar such a great neck.
I can't seem to let go of any of my guitars (they're just four anyway) because of the sentimental connection. My first guitar (an acoustic one) was gifted to me by my father when I was 7. My first electric (a second-hand cheap unwaxed humbucker Les Paul replica from Paul Beuscher ) was gifted by my brother on my birthday and still is my go-to guitar to practice and experiment after like 20/25 years. As a working adult I bought on the used market a "Gretch G5120 125th anniversary edition" and later an "Epiphone Riviera P93". Both the later sound great. The Riviera I play a lot, but I find the Gretch a bit hard and unconffortable to play and a lot of the times my left hand gets numb. I can't get myself to get rid of her because its the first I bought with my own money... and it looks cool.
My first guitar was a Rocket Special. I don't know if it was any good because I really didn't try practicing properly until I got my second guitar, a blue AXL strat copy. I took it apart and tried to repaint it. Terrible paint job and couldn't put it back together properly so I threw it out. The blue AXL was traded for a Tarantula. I then got an LP copy made by a guy who I think just made them himself and sold them on ebay. Very good guitar. I sold it to my friend for £40. He says it is better than his Gibson LP standard.
By that point I had saved up for my first "good" guitar. A B.C Rich ASM STD. Love that guitar.
A local pawn shop has a Rocket in, same as my old one for about £60. Tempted to buy it just for nostalgia.
I regret selling my first real electric guitar an RG560 which I had a roland gk-2 pickup on. I remember struggling with it having a double locking trem, but it was only because no one explained it to me so it was trial by fire after breaking a string. I tried replacing it with really nice Ibanez prestige models but it's not the same. I'll never forget that guitar and the time spent on it.
Mine is a 1990 Ibanez green dot universe I had in college. I'll take a loan if I have to get my hands back on it. What a guitar, Ibanez knocked it off the park from the start with their 7s.
Dude I hear ya I got rid of my tom delonge start and I still regret it and miss it almost twenty years later
I would do anything to be able to play guitar again. I always try to save up for a cheap used set up from a local shop or guitar center (my happy place). Unfortunately I’m in a very very tight situation and I’m happy for what I do have because it could always be worse. But boy I would love to have a little setup to play and get my mind off the depression or at least try to find joy in something it just really sucks I don’t get to do anything I used to enjoy anymore… I sure Do miss my cheap Ibanez Gio and line 6 12 inch… those were the best things I owned to bring me joy ..