Learn to play teenage guitar!

[GGJaguar]

But it's the Mel Bay way so it's probably boring.

 

[PreacherBob]

My mom got me a Mel Bays book and a Japanese Teisco guitar in the late sixties. She worked at Kmart in Charleston SC and put it on layaway. Mine was the 1958 book. I wasn’t a teenager yet, so I just colored the pages with my crayons.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I learned guitar from Mel Bay. In the very beginning.

 

[RBSinTo]

For the record, I bought my 2001 Gibson j-45 about four years ago, so it was still a teenager when I got it.
All of my other guitars were either youngsters or adults when they came to me.
RBSinTo

 

[GAD]

But it's the Mel Bay way so it's probably boring.

I'm pretty sure I've had that exact experience where I felt like I was rockin' and the girl next to me with her acoustic who actually knew what she was doing just stared with the "what is wrong with him?" look on her face. Looks like the right age, too.

 

[GGJaguar]

Or you can learn the Tony Mottola way in only 30 minutes!

 

[mushroom]

Or you can learn the Tony Mottola way in only 30 minutes!

12 strings in 30 minutes is very efficient.

 

[GGJaguar]

Or you can learn the Sears way.

 

[Bernie]

My mom got me a Mel Bay's book and a Japanese Teisco guitar in the late sixties. She worked at Kmart in Charleston SC and put it on layaway. Mine was the 1958 book. I wasn’t a teenager yet, so I just colored the pages

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What's that guitar ? It very much looks like a recently released Gibson described as an old model that had remained a drawing, or an unreleased project for decades...Is a recent guitar ?

 

[PreacherBob]

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What's that guitar ? It very much looks like a recently released Gibson described as an old model that had remained a drawing, or an unreleased project for decades...Is a recent guitar ?

This was the “tulip” design Japanese Teisco brand from the 1960’s, with the fins pointed outward instead of inward like a strat body. There were many many body styles and Teisco was the brand Kmart, Woolworth and many other department stores that sold musical instruments carried in the 60’s and 70’s. If you look online even on eBay, there are lots of vintage Japanese made Teisco guitars for sale. Depending on which model, some sell for upwards of $1000 and are very collectible. Got mine around the age of 7 years old. Never really learned to play it, but noticed that the pickups would pick up people talking. At 13 I formed my first neighborhood band as just a lead singer and used it to sing into the pickups until I saved $80 to purchase my first Shure SM58 microphone. Yes I held the guitar up to my face, first song I sang into it was “Wheel in The Sky“ by Journey. Continued through the 80’s as a lead vocalist for lots of rock bands East to West coast, wished I still had that Teisco.

 

[Bernie]

Thanks for your answer : I've known about Teisco for a long time, having owned one of their amplifiers - and I went too very close to buying a Stratocaster copy by them (eventually preferring that day a Japonese Stratocaster copy by Squier).
I've been aware of the guitar's quality, which seemed to me even better than the Squier's (which I eventually picked up because of its resale value - must have been 84 I believe -).
Here is the Gibson I was telling you of www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsFZlFapsLI

 

[PreacherBob]

Thanks for your answer : I've known about Teisco for a long time, having owned one of their amplifiers - and I went too very close to buying a Stratocaster copy by them (eventually preferring that day a Japonese Stratocaster copy by Squier).
I've been aware of the guitar's quality, which seemed to me even better than the Squier's (which I eventually picked up because of its resale value - must have been 84 I believe -).
Here is the Gibson I was telling you of www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsFZlFapsLI

Wow! I never would’ve thought the “tulip” body would resurface, especially with Gibson. With P90s! I like it!

 

[adorshki]

I've been playing teenage guitar for 50 years. Some folks play even longer.

 

[Minnesota Flats]