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Found some pics of my early guitars!

First guitar I owned. Onyx Les Paul with plywood body but it looked and played ok!

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I then bought an Onyx "strat" similar to one of Adrian Smith's Jacksons (sort of)!!!!
My first amp is also there, the Gorilla! I still own it! The other Onyx and amp were a friend's! I set his action a little lower but his neck was crappolla!!!!

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And last but not least, the first instrument I owned! My Conqueror (!?!?!?) drum kit with a Maxtone snare!!! The pearl wrap had faded bad so I put "Contact book covering" on it to spruce it up and it doesn't look that bad!!! Rotos were a knock-off not Remos, cymbals were all old Paistes except the hats which were Ufips and the splash which was a no name! The 16" Paiste China was my 17th birthday present! Still have it, the rotos and the snare!

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I can see an Eric Carr pin up from TV Week nov 1980 in the last pic! Was it up for inspiration while drumming??
I've still got that pinup :D
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Brooklyn_Born wrote:I can see an Eric Carr pin up from TV Week nov 1980 in the last pic! Was it up for inspiration while drumming??
I've still got that pinup :D
You got that right BB! Him, Peter and Nicko. I have that pic somewhere here too. Above it was the pic of Peter with the green backlighting that was also from TV week.
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Go Andrew! Nice top on the Les Paul. I had one of those Gorilla's too back in the day.

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Slayer wrote:Go Andrew! Nice top on the Les Paul. I had one of those Gorilla's too back in the day.

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Yeah not bad for plywood! And it was only $219 back in 1986!!!!
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my first guitar was this white squire strat, its next to my late 80's GTX
the strat is jake e lee inspired
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