“Around 1959, when I was fifteen, Doris bought me my first guitar,” Richards wrote in his autobiography, Life. Rosetti nylon-string – Keith Richardsīack in the late 50s, if you were learning to play guitar in the UK, you almost certainly started out with a simple classical guitar, which is exactly how the Human Riff learned his trade. They were made in Korea for a distributor called Tropical Music of Miami and were essentially cheaper production runs of the SuperStrat-style guitars that EVH had made famous, including hot-rodded pickup configurations (the stock pickups were branded SKORCHERZ) and Floyd Rose-style bridges. Starforce was a company that started making guitars in 1988. There weren’t stickers back then, so I just had to cut out pieces of paper and make my own.”
I took all of the paint off of it – I went through my punk-rock stage – and had it spray-painted neon green and put a bunch of Sex Pistols stickers on it. It was a cheap copy of an Eddie Van Halen guitar – red with the white stripes and the black tape or whatever he had on his guitar. “It was actually a pretty decent guitar for what it was. “My very first guitar was called a Starforce,” Kelliher tells us. Starforce S-type – Bill Kelliher (Mastodon) They were more known for their looks than their tone.
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The X Series guitars featured a bolt on neck, a lightweight basswood body, and some had a birch top. When I got back to school the next day, someone had stolen it. David Lee Roth was coming through town and I wanted to see Steve Vai play, so I just left it at school. The jazz teacher, at the time, let me use it, but I left it in the instrument storage room because I couldn’t take it home because I was going to a concert that night. “They let me play this hard rock guitar that, aesthetically, did not fit the jazz look. “I was in this high school jazz band,” he continues. Unfortunately, it was stolen two years later from the closet in the high school music room. Myles saved up money from his summer job, shoveling horse manure to buy the guitar. I didn’t even know who Dimebag was at that point, this was 1985 or so.” It had the same sort of aesthetic to it as the one Dimebag was known for playing.
“It was an Ibanez DT250 – they called it the X Series and it kind of looked like the Dimebag guitar ,” say Myles. Ibanez DT250 – Myles Kennedyįor the Alter Bridge frontman and Slash co-Conspirator, his guitar journey began with wanting something a bit more rock than the usual fare. They featured a unique H-Expander Truss Rod, a design that proved so successful it’s still used to this day. They were a popular guitar – they were made for around six years between late 1965 and early 1972, during that time, over 11,000 of them were shipped around the world. The headstock shape back then did look a bit like a Stratocaster while the body seemed to be more inspired by a Gibson SG. The Hagstrom III was introduced in the mid-60s. It was $124 – that price sticks in my mind.” I was so naïve then I didn’t know what a Fender Stratocaster was. “And my older sister, who had just started teaching at a local high school, stood up and said, ‘I’ll give him my first pay cheque.’ There was this white Hagstrom in the local music shop, that for some reason, to me, looked like what Hendrix played. I had quit the football team, and I announced to my family that I was gonna be a guitarist,” Satch told Vintage Guitar. “I came home one afternoon after finding out that Hendrix had died. For Satch, his first guitar came about from some familial generosity in the fallout of the greatest guitarist of all.
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