Originally posted by PonyOne
Wow, so many gear questions, and I've missed them all... I need to stop being lazy...

My first guitar was a cherry red Epiphone SG Special, a guitar I still use today. It set me back $180, and I put a $50 Seymour Duncan Buckshot humbucker in the bridge and replaced the wiring, knobs etc. so I have a $270 guitar that sounds like a $850 guitar. Whoever it was that said they'd recommend an Epiphone SG as a first guitar, you're very, very right. i'll second that.

Cool. I said that. Thanks. I play the G 400, like I said before.
Its a very nice guitar. I wouldn't do anything to it though. Except the autograph, thats cool.
Anyway, if given the choice between my Epiphone and the the $3500 real thing, I'll take the Epiphone.