My First Love

While recording an idea for a song I have been working on the other day, I decided to add some electric guitar to the acoustic track I had already recorded. Instead of grabbing my Fender Stratocaster like I always do, I opted for my Telecaster. This is the first "Real" guitar that I have ever owned. And It's the guitar that I learned basically everything on. It's a 20 year old guitar, built in japan in 1991. It has two custom seymour duncan brand pickups on it (the two small black bars underneath the strings,) a marble pickguard and Gotoh brand tuners. I'll never forget the day I got this guitar. I was visiting my dad and my stepmom and was sleeping on the couch in their basement and one morning my dad came downstairs and saw my old beat up $80 Squier by Fender guitar, and we ended up talking about guitars. Minutes later my dad had found this guitar on KSL.com and told me that if I could cover half of it he'd cover the rest. So I called the man who was selling the guitar and set up a time where I could come look at it and then proceeded to empty my bank account, in which I had Just enough money to cover my half. Needless to say, I fell in love with it as soon as the man selling it opened up the tweed case. The first songs I played on it were "I Can't Get no Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, (probably because I knew Keith Richards favors his Telecasters) and "Fade To Black" by Metallica. This guitar has gone everywhere with me over the last few years and although I use my newer Stratocaster guitar much more, I wouldn't trade this instrument for anything.