{"id":1473,"date":"2019-10-10T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2019-10-10T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T21:34:01","slug":"my-first-electric-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"My First Electric Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1991 my parents bought me my first electric guitar and electric guitar amp for Christmas. The guitar was a brand new Squier II HSS Stratocaster in red, and the amp was a Peavey Rage 108 solid state practice amp. I loved that thing, and I learned on it for years but it eventually became my experimental project guitar. It was on that guitar that I taught myself how to replace pickups and knobs, and as you can see in the 3rd photo I even tried my hand (unsuccessfully) at painting. Eventually, I moved on from that guitar to others, an Aspen Les Paul copy, a Washburn (also seen in photo 3), and some other off-brand emerald green S-type that wasn&#8217;t work its weight in wood. Unfortunately in the end, I modified the Squier into oblivion. Its mangled body resided at a friend&#8217;s house for years, while its neck lived the rest of its life in my storage shed. The bridge and electronics live in a ziplock bag in my tool box. While my original Squier II won&#8217;t be played again, I may have found its brother online, and it may have to come live with me soon&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"888\" data-attachment-id=\"1475\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1475\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20090315-Matt-with-guitar-Highland-Trl503.jpg?fit=1618%2C1403&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1618,1403\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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The guitar was a brand new Squier II HSS Stratocaster in red, and the amp was a Peavey Rage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-my-band"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32FB4-nL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37,"url":"https:\/\/www.pressleypress.com\/blog\/?p=37","url_meta":{"origin":1473,"position":0},"title":"Amplifier Classes","author":"Matt","date":"July 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"For years now, I've loved tube guitar amps. 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