There were two, both Ibanez - the Joe Satriani model, and the UV7 in black with green pickups, thanks to John Petrucci here:
A strat, any strat. Got a maple ply epiphone strat copy that was kinda ugly an weighed a ton. I loved it every day I had it.
Don’t make me Jelous lol
Can’t remember exactly, but it definitely was some kind of explorer type, maybe the blackstriped reverse explorer type in Starships “we built this city”-Video. Funny enough I never had any Explorer type guitar.
Later then I really wanted to have a jem 777 in loch ness green. No way of getting one or at least affording one if I could have gotten my hands on one.
Nowadays I’m fighting GAS and like all types of guitars. It shows if you go through my guitar inventory
Thomas
A silver Stratocaster with a maple fretboard. Saw one hanging in a Hard Rock Cafe nnot long after I started playing, that had evidently been owned by Eric Clapton (I later learned it was one he used heavily for a time and was a pretty well known guitar of his). I thought it looked awesome.
When I’d finally saved up enough to buy a Strat of my own (I was a teenager at the time) I ordered an Inca Silver with a vintage tint maple neck, because that was the current production silver option at the time. This was… twenty-six years ago? It hasn’t continuously been my main player since then (there was a period where I almost entirely played seven strings and considered selling it - now I go back and forth), but it’s been my main player for MOST of those years.
I think the first guitar that I truly drooled over was the white and gold Ibanez Jem that came out around the time of Sex and Religion. That still might be the prettiest guitar I’ve ever seen!
Old issues of Guitar World had monthly “centerfolds” that I covered my walls with. My favorites were Vai’s For The Love Of God guitar and Claypool’s Carl Thompson. I wanted both (well, all of them) desperately.
Montgomery and sears both used to sell guitars by fender’s and maybe even Gibson’s Japanese OEM’s. I remember seeing adds for the Fender Talon in one of their catalogs in the early-mid 90’s when I was a preteen and starting to obsess over wanting to play guitar.
You say that in jest, but that guitar fucked hard! If I still had it, I would be playing it to this day.
The good old Jeff Loomis signature 7-string Schecter, the one in red with a maple fretboard.
Nevermore’s This Godless Endeavour album was the first time I was actually awestruck by guitar playing.
I started listening to them when I was 15 or 16; when I learned Jeff Loomis was playing a 7-string guitar, the idea was incredible to me, I wanted one so badly
Never got the signature model, sadly; I had a cheapo Schecter 7 and the sharp edge of the carved top cut the circulation in my picking hand lol.
I can’t remember if I even knew what I wanted, but it was most likely a Strat, I remember the first time I held an ultra from the 90s in a store in India, they were unobtanium, I actually preferred the Ibanez start that day, but I didn’t know anything back then. A year later my dad got me a black MIM Strat in 94’
That black Strat still puts a lot of expensive Strats to shame, just remembered it still with my luthier for a fret job, along with my MIJ 94’ Strat, I think I kind of lucked out, both from the same year, though I flew to Nepal for a day to pick up the MIJ a few years ago, I’ve done some stupid shit over guitars.