Which was the first guitar you ever wanted to acquire?

[OmegaSlayer]

Jem77 Floral Pattern
Eventually I got it second hand as my 3rd guitar

 

[thraxil]

My first guitar in high schoo in the 90's was a really crappy strat copy. As I learned to play and was reading guitar magazines more, I think I first figured out that for the kind of music I liked, "anything with humbuckers" would be an improvement but I didn't have thoughts much beyond that. I do remember the full page PRS ads that were often in the backs of those magazines and I'm sure I wanted one of those, but they were so far out of my price range that I knew it wasn't happening. Then I distinctly remember the guitar store in the nearest city was handing out nice glossy flyers for the Parker Fly and that was probably the first real guitar lust I remember. They were also way, waaaay out of my budget at the time, but apparently it made a lasting impression. Around the same time, I also remember both the J Yuenger Iceman ads and picking up an Iceman at the music store and it just being amazing feeling; it was probably the first really good quality and well set up guitar I'd ever held. When I got a halfway decent job in college, one of the very first things I got was an IC300. That wasn't nearly as good as the one I'd played before in the music store, but was so many steps above my shitty strat copy that I loved it.

 

[Riffer]

BC Rich Warlock because I thought it looked sick as fuck and a Gibson SG because of Angus Young.

 

[gunshow86de]

Close enough for a $150 Craigslist buy.

 

[myhandhurts]

Originally I just wanted a new guitar with humbuckers (I only had an unbranded tele-style guitar that I still have to this day), but the first guitar that truly caught my attention was the BCR Stealth. I was big into Death and would always see Chuck using one, and I just fell in love with it.

 

[Fenriswolf]

In a very noob fashion, I wanted Randy Rhoads' guitar that didn't have the bullseye on it, but the white and black Strat. Because at one point I didn't know the difference between Randy, Jake and Zakk. I also have it now.

 

[Zalbu]

First one I can actually remember was after getting into Metallica and wanting an ESP Explorer

After that I got really into guitar virtuoso music and prog metal and wanted the classic white Ibanez JEM with gold hardware, the good old white Paul Gilbert Ibanez signature with the painted F holes and an original John Petrucci Ibanez Picasso signature

So my first good guitar I got was an Ibanez RG Prestige and I'm still dead set on HSH Superstrats as my go to guitars.

A hardtail HSH Paul Gilbert signature is still my dream guitar but I'm pretty sure those are rare as hell these days.

 

[Merrekof]

Any 7-string Ibanez because I was a huge Korn fanboy during my early teens. Didn't know of any specific models but I knew it was an Ibanez with 7 strings.

Started out with a Yamaha starter pack, then Epiphone, BC Rich, Ibanez,...

Years later I got an RG7620, RG2027, JBM27 and built/assembled an FR7 from parts. The last one mentioned is the only 7-string I have left.

 

[Celtic Frosted Flakes]

The LTD M-50. It was either late 90s or around year 2000. I had a no-name superstrat, but I really wanted the M-50 because LTD was made by ESP, and Kirk Hammett played ESPs. Of course I also wanted a real ESP (and a USA Jackson Soloist) but I knew that was unrealistic as a kid in high school. So I really wanted the M-50 because I thought that would be obtainable.

 

[Ordacleaphobia]

A Blackmachine B2. Still my holy grail all these years later.
I had been playing drums for a few years which was what sucked me into heavy music. I happened onto Haunted Shores and loved everything I heard, which led me onto a quest to find anything that was similar, which was what led to me to Red Seas Fire; and the playthrough video Nolly and Pete did for Cipher where Nolly rocks that sweet B2. That was it, it was over. Something about that guitar spoke to my soul lmao and the very next day I started learning how to play guitar.

Then once I discovered how unobtainium and expensive those guitars were it turned into a multi-year long grind to get good enough to 'justify' owning a piece of gear that expensive as a hobby musician. Still don't think I'm there but I don't care anymore and can accept the fact that I just want it and not care about 'depriving a more deserving musician' of one. Now I just have to figure out how to afford a $10,000 guitar

 

[BenjaminW]

Any of John Lennon's guitars were what I wanted originally. I remember really wanting both a Gibson J-160E and a Rickenbacker 325. Luckily I got a J-160E eventually, but the downside is that I only want to play Beatles songs on that guitar instead of whatever else I'm interested in.

My dad and I had an agreement that if I could learn two Beatles songs on guitar, he'd buy me a sunburst Epiphone Casino. Aside from not being a very good guitarist at the time, I'd also started getting into Randy Rhoads so I switched from wanting a Casino to play Beatles songs to a Les Paul so I could shred.

Nowadays I've pretty much got everything I could want or need for what I like to play. Anything else is either just cool to have or some kind of sentimental value.

 

[SalsaWood]

Gibson Zakk Wylde signature. Still want one.