I actually had to sell my first guitar pretty recently, but i'm okay about it, I wasn't super attached to it, it was just a basic Squier strat in candy apple red, I called it Rosie, after AC/DC's Whole Lotta Rosie. I got it as part of a starter kit to start learning on. The guy that bought it was looking for something basic for his daughter to start learning on, they came to collect it one evening and they were really happy with it, the expression on the girls face was one of complete joy and excitement, and I could tell she was grateful to her dad for getting it for her (I sold them the whole kit guitar, amp, gig bag, cable etc) it made me happy that a dad was supporting his daughters desire to learn, something I was sorta denied as a kid, so ultimately it was a positive experience for me, my only regret is that the money had to be put towards bills etc rather than a bass like I wanted haha. I'm way more attached to my 2nd guitar, a black Gibson SG that I'd saved up for with left over money from the Download Festival in 2019, so hopefully i'll never have to sell it, I would regret that for sure.

This is why I'm NEVER selling my guitars, great video, man!!

The only guitar that I kind of regret selling, which I actually pawned, was my first guitar. We were super broke, and I sold the guitar in order to buy groceries. I don't regret it totally because we got to eat and I found a really good job the following week, so we bounced back nicely. The guitar was a Lotus, Les Paul copy, which I do own again today. And, even though the second guitar is almost identical to the first, it's just not my first guitar. I have tried not to dwell on the loss of that guitar, and I have since come to believe that somehow, maybe losing that guitar was a blessing. Because, in my quest to find this same guitar again, I came across so many other really nice guitars that I ended up buying. So, in my quest to find a copy of my first guitar, I was led to all of these other guitars which I ended up buying. I am pretty sure that the guitars that I ended up buying is something that would not have happened had I not lost my original Lotus LP copy. Today, I have about 35 guitars in my collection, but at one time it was closer to 80 guitars. I have since donated about 15 guitars and amps to students and music schools because I think it's important to help musicians who can't afford instruments. I also don't think that I would have been prone to donations had I not pawned my first guitar. So yes, I do believe that it's kind of been a blessing. And, as much as I love the guitars that I own today, I also don't want to get so attached to them that I can not part with them for the betterment of others. I recently gave my son a Gibson ES-355, Johnny Marr replica guitar, which I really loved. I bought this guitar because I am a huge fan of Johnny Marr, but I gave it to my son because I am an even bigger fan of his! Even though I loved that guitar, I want to be able to do things like that without any kind of regret. I've tried to turn regret into something positive, and I am hoping that I will still feel this way in the future.

The one I regret selling was a white Washburn Solar V that was Ola's signature before he started his company. It was kinda like that wand scene from Harry Potter cause it just fit me so perfectly and felt immaculate to play. But I had some financial troubles one year and sold a few guitars including that one. I really wish I kept it. I've been looking at the newer Solar ones but I'm kinda afraid I'm going to buy one and it's not going to live up to my memory.

That Yamaha you had was almost certainly an RGX of some sort rather than a Pacifica.

I've had a few guitars that I missed greatly after selling. The first and most important was my 3rd ever guitar, my 1993 Jackson Dinky in the stone finish (which was only available for a couple years). I had seen it in a local music store and immediately fell in love with it. It played great and really fit the music I liked to play. My dad bought it for me at like 500 bucks or something. I eventually sold it to a music store on the way home from a Guitar Center because I wasn't sure I was going to make it home (I had no gas money). I took only 150 dollars for it, with the case, and then the guy handed me a check. It was an all-around bad deal for me, and I have no idea why I didn't at least ask for cash. At the very least, I didn't run out of gas on the way home. That story has a happy ending though. Once the regret set in, I started tracking stone finish Jacksons on eBay and Reverb for a couple years until I finally found the same model again in 2020. It's been my main guitar since, and I've recently had Dimarzios put in. Another guitar I regret selling is my Epiphone Les Paul Standard Pro. It was in a blue burst finish that was gorgeous. Most of the ones I had seen had flamed maple, but that one was quilt. I think that guitar had the best sound and playability of any guitar I've owned for a variety of styles. The Jackson is clearly best for shreddy distorted stuff, and the same goes for any other really quality instruments I've had. This Epiphone had a lot more variety, and I haven't been able to fill the void it left. I traded it at a guitar show for a Gibson SG Special, which I later realized had been repainted and had a neck repair. That SG played horribly, and the pickups were so hot they were unusable with any of my presets. They said Gibson on them, but they were really bad. I don't regret getting rid of that guitar, but I do regret eventually selling the guitar I traded it for. I was traded an ESP LTD EC-CZ-II Clockwork Zombie guitar, which was a limited-run Eclipse model (It's kinda like the EC-1000). It had EMGs, which I've never had before or since. It could be tuned down pretty far and still sound pretty good. I used it as my main guitar for a little while, alongside a DBZ Guitar which I only sold recently. I sold it because, at the time, I didn't really want to do much metal stuff. It's a bummer that I got rid of it because nowadays it would be a godsend for recording. Thankfully, I've been much more careful about what guitars I keep and sell recently. It turns out, even if you like a guitar, there's sometimes a point where it's just not going to be of much use anymore. I recently sold my DBZ guitar and my Burny Sustainer guitar, which were both very good and got a lot of use for years. However, I don't regret selling them. I got everything out of them I was going to get. It was time to move on. Now, I only have 2 guitars and one bass (My original Stinger Betacaster, the Jackson, and the bass is a recent Jackson JS2). I wish I had a bit more variety, and I do miss some of those other guitars, but I have all I really need. (thanks for reading if you did. I know it's wordy. I'm not good at cutting out the fluff).

A friend gave me a guitar that, though not super expensive, was just right for me. But for some reason, when I was trying to reduce my stuff, I thought I had given it to Good Will. For years I regretted my mistake. Then one day, during a move, I opened up a hard guitar case I had lying around and there it was. I was so happy. I learned my lesson and still have it.

My first guitar was a Christmas gift when I was about 10. My parents got divorced about 3 years later and my mother sold all my stuff at a yard sale while I was with my dad. I am 47 now and I found an identical match on EBay. 🤘Guitars are art🤘

I had a 70s Japanese Greco Strat copy at one point that I ended up selling when I was in a tight financial spot. I sold it to a local musician who still owns and plays it, so on one hand I'm glad that it went to someone who appreciates it, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't hugely regret it. Sometimes tough choices had to be made, even if you later regret them.

i started playing when i was really young, got my first 2 electric guitars around 9 or 10. i stopped playing for more than a decade, and the guitars just sat around collecting dust at my mom’s house, and then at my ex’s. i though about selling them so many times, never thought i’d have a use for them again and just saw them as an emergency fund. well, i picked up playing again a little over a year ago, and i’m so grateful i didn’t get rid of them. whatever forgettable amount of cash i would have gotten for them pales in comparison to the amount of joy they give me now. definitely influenced my approach to buying and selling, i try to be really considerate before picking something up or moving something along. haven’t been hit with a regretful sale yet, but im sure it’ll happen to me eventually haha

I had a 90s charvel in the 90s. It was mettalic fleck green with emgs and a maple fretboard. It basicly played itself it was so nice. And i pawned it to pay rent and then didnt have the money to get it back. I got 1k for it and he put it at 2k in his shop and it sold in like a week! I was heartbroken!! THANKS FOR BRINGIN IT UP MAN! 😆

This video is really affirming because my experience is a little different. I was set to trade my Charvel TX Custom (tele style, with ivory pick guard) for an Ibanez RG. I found the Ibanez on craigslist and had communicated with the person selling/ trading it. We were set to meet up the next day when I suddenly got cold feet. I texted the guy and told him I was sorry, but I didn’t think I could trade the guitar. He was super gracious replying, “I totally understand… I’ve been there, and I’ve regretted letting some guitars go in the past.” I don’t play that guitar a ton, but it does have a lot of sentimental value. Every time I do play it I’m glad I didn’t let it go. I ended up buying an Ibanez RG that I traded for a different RG. I’m very happy that I made the trade, and so is my friend who traded with me. Win/ win! Great video…really enjoyed it

For me, it was a beautiful, purple Ibanez RG I bought in Japan. It had great action and an amazing sound even with the stock pick-ups.

The Yamaha guitar you had was probably the RGX 321FP. My model is the RGX 121FP, it has a huge Yamaha logo on the headstock like you said. Great guitar indeed. I've upgraded mine with emg kit zakk wylde. Sounds awesome.

I have three: A Rickenbacker 4001 bass, a Washburn Nuno Bettencourt model, and a Gibson custom shop Flying V with a Kahler trem.

I still have me first squier strat and I’m so glad I never sold it. I still have the next 15 guitars I bought too unfortunately. Love you Mike, you are such a great guitarist and my favorite KZfaq channel.

Yep , had to sell an ESP(not LTD) custom shop Truckster. That guitar was so good to play, felt perfect in the hands and played beautifully. If i looked at my guitars and wanted a quick noodle, I'd always pick that one up. Looked them up now and they are all going for crazy prices. Such is life

At a point in my life, I fell into hard times, and pawned my Gibson Zack Wylde Camouflage guitar! I had a coffin case and $200 strap 😢 They sold all three separate, and made a killing on just loaning me $300

My biggest regret was selling my Squier Active 5 String Jazz bass. It was the first 5 string bass I owned and even though I’ve moved on from it and I’ve owned and sold quite a few guitars and basses afterwards that are higher end per se, it was the first bass that I first started gigging with in my first bands and I felt it was when I took the biggest step as a musician. I really wish I had kept it in college and had modded it cause it was such a reliable and sentimental instrument to me. I’m thankful that I still have my first guitar even though it’s broken, but I do hope one day to mod it which is an Epiphone Les Paul Junior. (from like 2005 I think?)

I don't think that it was Pacifica, but some kind of Yamaha rgx Modell. They were produced before Pacificas in the late 80s, early 90s. And they were more shred than strat type, and yes, some of them had Floyd rose. Google them, they're not that expensive nowadays.

Three Ibanez's. ICX-220DX Iceman, broken in half by an ex. MIJ RG 470, sold when I was a teenager and I didn't know any better. RG3EXFM1, was a gift from my father, but I was so broke at the time I traded it for an Epiphone LP with a roadcase because I was going on a short tour and needed a guitar with a roadcase.

I own the Alpine White Kramer Jersey Star because of a livin on a prayer live performance in 1987 and it got me hooked on Bon Jovi ever since then.

The guitar @ 4:05 looks like to me a Yamaha RGX 421M if that is helpful. And I would say it was made from 1990 -1995. The one that I would still like to have is a Yamaha RGX 1212s from 1988 it was made in Taiwan purple metallic. After many years I found a Black metallic 1212s to replace it.

My first guitar was a Harmony late 80's strat Fingerhut catalog guitar. Tobacco sun burst. Still have it to this day!

Thanks a lot for this video. I've been fighting myself because of my money today's situation and the possibility of having to sell one of my guitars. And i've thinking a lot "will i have the option of getting it back?" "will I really regret it?" And as I haven't seen other people having that guitar I feel special for owning it. (It's an EVH Striped Star, black and white). So with this video I'll do my best to hold on.

Your Yamaha was most likely an RGX/RGZ model. They were played at the time by Blues Saraceno, who may have had a signature version finished in plaid.

I had an Epiphone Les Paul Custom that I worked really hard and saved up for when I was 14-15. Around my mid 20s there were a few years when I wasn't really playing that much but was really into audiophile gear and low on cash so I traded it to someone looking for a first guitar for their daughter. I traded for a set of Beyerdynamic DT 990 headphones and an O2 DAC/amp. I had so many great memories made on that thing and still check the classifieds every day for it.

I had found a Jackson Rhodes in the late 90's and was just starting to really play. I paid 400 bucks and went on my merry way. Eventually I walked into a music store with it and the guy offered to buy it from me for $1000, and I took the bait as I was short on money at that point and he preyed on my desperation. Come to find out it was a USA custom shop, he knew and I didn't, and the music shop fleeced me. I'm still bitter about that one to this day, 25 years later.

I've cycled through so many guitars, I don't really have any regrets though because what I like has changed so much over the years. Before I ever learned how to play I always wanted a Gibson sg, I learned guitar on a strat copy, years later I got my first job and saved until I could afford an sg, initially I loved it, until I played some other guitars and I realized how much neck dive sg's have. I was a les Paul guy for a few years after that, I went through a telecaster phase, then I was a die hard strat player for over a decade, now I'm trading everything for jazzmasters and don't really play anything else lol.🤷 I do still have my first sg that I bought when I was 15 though, I don't often play it anymore, it's basically an autograph book now that I take with me and have signed whenever I get backstage at a big show.

I bought a Jackson Kelly XL in Dark Metallic Blue from that same Guitar Center off of Snelling. I ended up selling it to a pawn shop 😭

I started watching your bad tablature videos and alot of the old books from the 80's you use are the exact same ones I had been given by my father when I was a kid. The ozzy tribute one looked EXACTLY like the one I learned from. But in regards to this particular vid, my dad owned a Jackson polka-dot randy Rhoads V and a few years back tried to sell it and I had a similar experience to yours where I had to run around trying to get it back from staples before they sold it for him on ebay...long story short its now in my possession 😊. Love the content Mike!

I still have my first guitar I bought 25 years ago, never bought another one. It's a cheap squire strat. Also I have the same crate amp you showed earlier. Few months later I bought a Korg ax300g multi effect pedal, and I remember how amazing it was at the time, and I still have it and it works flawlessly. You can make your own chains of effects and modify them really easily, plus it has a small expression pedal which can be assigned to different parameters.

I had a PRS CE 22…it was made in the old Annapolis factory (ca. 1996)…thats the one I regret the most…I still look for it on the web to this day!!!!

My first real guitar was a blue 80's Westone Spectrum. I've been trying to find one online since and everytime I do, I don't have the money to buy it. Recently found one and put it in my Reverb cart. The price dropped down quite a bit and it was gone. It was in better shape than mine was. The thing was, I didn't sell mine. It had some nicks and dings in it and I thought I'd repaint it. Not only did I not repaint it very well, I didn't know how to wire it all back up, so I traded it in pieces to a guitar shop for a Washburn...which I ruined as well. I have a list of other guitars I've sold that I regret though.

I bought a charvel Deluxe 275 Dinky, with the same pickup configuration as your V from the guitar center in Roseville too! I think around 1990-91

I havent sold any of mine but hearing your stories was like walking through time. It reminded of where I was and the circumstances behind obtaining my axes. My very first guitar was bought off a street busker by my mom when I was 15. I'd love to know the guitars story or his reason for selling it to her. Itd probably make me sad though. Thanks for sharing Mikey.

1982 ibanez blazer series…..hard tail …maple neck….played like a dream….I bought it new and traded it for a Les Paul copy of some sort…I think it was a saga….wish I had it back

I regret selling my 1985 Ibanez Roadstar II (RS-440) that I bought brand new in '85. The pickups were weak but it was red and had a tremolo (I was really into Brad Gillis back then). I'd beat the hell out of that tremolo and it stayed in tune. The other guitar I regret selling is a white Steinberger Spirit that I got from MusicYo for $229. I want one again but can't find one in white, and the other Spirits I see for sale are all $600 or more.

Still have my original Ibanez V50 acoustic. It's a beater but I still love it. I ended up selling 3-4 of my guitars including a Seagull 12 string because my wife told me I could buy a Martin D45 if I "sold all those guitars you have around." Sold, bought, and that playing that Martin sounds like the Angels are playing it. Great video Mike!

When I was 17 graduating from high school my dad gave me $200 to buy an Ibanez RG 270 in mystic silver with a UV1000 case. About a year later I bought a RG 7321 7 string as well. After about 3 years I wanted an LTD Alexi 200 and traded the RG270 my dad bought me straight across for the Alexi V and sold my 7 string for rent money. I got the 7 string back about 6 years later as a buddy bought it, sold it to another buddy, who sold back to me. The silver one never came back but I was able to find another of the same year and close serial number and I built a close replica out of parts to replace it. I felt like an ass and still kinda do that I sold the guitar my dad bought. Never got the case back either and those classic 2000s UV1000 cases are ridiculous money on reverb these days. Outside of that I have guitars I don’t mind parting ways with but most will never leave the collection including the Alexi V as a constant reminder that I’m a complete dipshit sometimes.

My first guitar was a Rocket Special. I don't know if it was any good because I really didn't try practicing properly until I got my second guitar, a blue AXL strat copy. I took it apart and tried to repaint it. Terrible paint job and couldn't put it back together properly so I threw it out. The blue AXL was traded for a Tarantula. I then got an LP copy made by a guy who I think just made them himself and sold them on ebay. Very good guitar. I sold it to my friend for £40. He says it is better than his Gibson LP standard. By that point I had saved up for my first "good" guitar. A B.C Rich ASM STD. Love that guitar. A local pawn shop has a Rocket in, same as my old one for about £60. Tempted to buy it just for nostalgia.

86 Ibanez roadstar II with a Floyd. I sold it because I didn't like the headstock shape. It had the best neck I have ever played...

My first guitar was a Kent (I think it was a Sears brand) copy of an SG. I hated that guitar but I learned so much with it. I basically destroyed it, taking it apart and putting it back together so many times. I don’t really remember what happened to it…it was 40 years ago. I don’t regret not having it today as I still don’t like SGs. I’ve only ever gotten rid of two other guitars, both of which I sold about the same time as I was hard up for money. One was a Fender Malmsteen and the second was a 12 string Martin, don’t remember the model off the top of my head but it played like a dream, better than many electric guitars I have played. I definitely regret having sold it, so much so that I vowed never to sell another. I have 14 guitars now and while I almost never play anymore I don’t have any plans to sell any of them. I’ll give them to my kids when they’re ready if they want to play. If my kids don’t want them I’ll donate them to a school or something someday but I won’t ever sell them.

Tje the one I regret getting rid of was an old Memphis strat copy. It was a neck through, had bill Lawrence blade pups, with coil taps, and it was mahogany with a rosewood board. It played like a dream, and I could get ANY sound I wanted. I miss it.

had Niles Lofgren's Art Deco Kramer Pacer, actually belonged to NL, here in New Jersey, there used to be a Kramer Factory, it was translucent green, solid maple body, had a neck like a baseball bat, and a gold Floyd I always think of that one when I build a guitar

I can't seem to let go of any of my guitars (they're just four anyway) because of the sentimental connection. My first guitar (an acoustic one) was gifted to me by my father when I was 7. My first electric (a second-hand cheap unwaxed humbucker Les Paul replica from Paul Beuscher ) was gifted by my brother on my birthday and still is my go-to guitar to practice and experiment after like 20/25 years. As a working adult I bought on the used market a "Gretch G5120 125th anniversary edition" and later an "Epiphone Riviera P93". Both the later sound great. The Riviera I play a lot, but I find the Gretch a bit hard and unconffortable to play and a lot of the times my left hand gets numb. I can't get myself to get rid of her because its the first I bought with my own money... and it looks cool.

Man those guitars are all beautiful

My first guitar was an off-white Kramer Striker I bought from my roommate's HS best friend, and former bandmate, for $100. It had a Kahler tremelo that he bought new that was worth more than the guitar was. The Kramer had taken a few slides off the amps and furniture he'd lean it against so the neck would shift now and then and I'd have to yank it back into tune. Usually, it stayed "fixed" for days if not weeks, no glue or anything. The neck pickup he'd dropped so low that one of the screws had fallen out so it would wobble around in the cavity, not that it ever got used. I had it for probably 10 years and for all its faults it was still a great guitar. Fantastic neck, the frets were great, and the bridge pickup sounded great. I worked at a 2nd-hand store where we got a lot of guitars in, 99% of which were lower-end models. Egad, so many Squier Bullet Strat POS'es... I ended up trading it (and $80) for an almost new Washburn N1 that came in. I still have that N1 and it plays awesome! I just wish I still had that 1st guitar just for sentimentality's sake, and so my daughter could play the same guitar I learned on. The only other guitar I wish I hadn't sold was an immaculate red Fender Tele (with the hard case) that had come into the store. My boss sold it to me for $100. The economy crashed a year later, my wife and I were both out of jobs, and we had a new baby, and we had no idea if one or both of us would have a job anytime soon and the unemployment was going to end not that far off. So I sold it for $600 because that was food on the table for a while. Had I known that my wife would get her job back a few short weeks later I would have kept it. No regrets, though. But damn that was a great guitar!

My buds got one of those first run Yamaha Pacificas. The name was defiantly bigger on the head stock. This friend of mine is a real player. Graduated MIT, and that $200. Pacifica is his #1

Great story man, I miss loads of guitars I’ve had & am currently trying to make up for them . I had a jackson like yours in neon pink, one in rainbow crackle and one in green crackle ,miss them so much , & my green meanie charvels

I gave my nephew my first guitar because he was interested, a Bentley Series 10 in Desert Crackle. It wasn’t much, I’d had the headstock repaired but it was my first and I miss it. His mom pitched it 😡but he stuck with guitar and now plays out quite a bit 20 years later. So not all is lost I guess.

Custom 1982 Gibson Flying V. Hurts even admitting this.

My first Electric guitar was a Harmony too. It was an SG copy.

My Schecter C6 Elite. It's such a "low-end" guitar but it played so perfectly after I put some work in. The maple top and color was perfect, the neck felt amazing, everything just felt perfect and that guitar got me through some really rough breakups. I ended up losing it when I lost my storage unit out in North Carolina after I lost my job.

My first ever electric guitar was an epiphone les paul sl and I ended up selling it to one of my friends who wanted to start playing guitar and I sold it because I needed the money. The reason I regret selling it is becuase I got it for free from my algebra teacher last year during my Sophmore year of high school, I remember almost crying when I first got it and while that guitar was cheap and wasn't the best, it really made me wanna practice and it had a lot of value to me. Eventually I upgraded to a Jackson js32t king v which I got as a chirstmas gift from my dad and is one of my favorite playing guitars that I've played/owned.

Ah, the pains of being broke. I sold a Gibson Goth Explorer that I had had refinished in Bumblebee. It took some damage in shipping, I had that fixed and it stayed solid. Unlike my finances. Then there was the Orville LP Custom NOS I got from Japan. Didi so much work on that, even got special ordered Grover tuners on it. But the worst is the cream Kramer Floyd Rose Signature. I can't remember why I sold it, but it might have been to get money for the Washburn V I still have. I'm still looking for that one. I remember the serialnumber still. Scanning eBay and local similar sites on a regular basis.

Ibanez is my go to brand. I bought two Soundgear 6-string basses and had to sell them to move. One of them I custom ordered with gold hardware (back in the 90's when you could still do that). I then bought a series of unsuitable 4-strings (a GTX, a Warlock, a Squire), a couple of 5-string acoustics (Dean, Michael Kelly), a Rogue 6-string, a Squire MB5, then a Dean Edge 6 that I grudgingly owned for over a decade because nobody would buy it. I then bought a Gio 6-string. My only problem with Gios is the Phat II bass EQ. I want a completely passive bass, not something that's half active half passive. I hate having to waste money on batteries for a feature I'll never use.

Great video, I love your content! I love your John Mayer techniques video.

I regret selling my first real electric guitar an RG560 which I had a roland gk-2 pickup on. I remember struggling with it having a double locking trem, but it was only because no one explained it to me so it was trial by fire after breaking a string. I tried replacing it with really nice Ibanez prestige models but it's not the same. I'll never forget that guitar and the time spent on it.

I've owned a JS22 Dinky and sold it for a RR. Then sold the RR for a King V. That JS22 looking back was super solid and it was only $160..

Love your vids man!

My first electric was a 1997 Ibanez RX series. I put EMG 81’s in it. Still have it❤️🙏

Dude, In 1996, I bought an ESP MII Deluxe. It was $1,799 at the time and got it at Granny’s Music in OKC for $950 brand new with a case! 3 years later, I traded it for an Epiphone Les Paul Custom. I was looking for a different sound, and that is one of my top 5 regrets in life. My 18 year old self was an idiot.

Glad to say I still have my first it was a Yamaha121p or something like that from early 91

Around 1993, I saved up for a B.C. Rich Gunslinger/Assassin that was awesome. It was black, with like a glittery finish, so it's colour appeared blue, purple, green with bits of orange depending on how light hit it. Was a most lovely guitar. Eventually I wound up trading it toward an Ibanez about a year later.

Hi Mike! I still have the Jackson fusion that you sold me way back in the day if you ever want to have a reunion with it lol.

I sold my 1987 Charvel Model 6 in Black Cherry after some medical problems. I’ve bought plenty of guitars since, and almost bought another Model 6, but it will never be that same guitar that I had put so many hours into.

I had to sell guitars because I was broke/suffering a major money crunch, more than I care to remember. It's no fun. The only "kind of" bright side to it - when the money situation became better, and I went into gear recovery mode (started shopping for gear, to upgrade from the cheapo mediocre guitars and amps I had/could afford, that kept me playing guitar - I was only completely guitarless once during a major money crunch [back in 2007], which was a weird feeling for me, after 28 years of guitar playing at the time), I viewed it as an opportunity to try guitars and amps that were different from what I usually played. As a result I discovered Gretsch guitars (and that they can do so much more that the rockabilly sound they are often pigeonholed into), and rediscovered a love for the Fender Jaguar (after getting rid of my first one in 1990, because it was so horribly microphonic). But still there were those guitars that I got rid of that I never got over, and as a result, ended up buying again. As a matter of fact my 2 current electrics (a Gretsch Country Club, and a Squier Classic Vibe 60s Jaguar), fall into that category, and I'm hoping that I can hold onto these guitars.

I had an early 1985 Japanese fender strat, the flagship model and it was great, I'd installed a Seymour Duncan stack humbucker in the middle the one that had one big magnet like a thick blade. it got stolen but I went to do some stuff at a local studio and it was there, it had the same damage in the front bottom end id repaired and a knock on the 14 fret board where a Dunlop slide box hit it, I knew it was mine. My dad offered to buy it back from them but how he was at the time he would have constantly thrown it in my face that he had to buy it back because I had let it get stolen on a burglary so I said forget it. I really regret it now as it was the guitar l learnt on, I got it when I started to take guitar seriously and it was my first guitar, I'd just played borrowed one until then, it was a fantastic guitar such a great neck.

First electric guitar Fender Telecaster butterscotch guitar center edition, the cool part about it was the pickup switch and knobs were actually flipped. Sold it to complete the down payment on a manufactured home and recently purchased a Pacifica. I miss it but definitely enjoying the lightness compared to the tele 😂

Taylor 314CE. I learned guitar on an electric (Squier strat) and didn't own an acoustic until I had been playing for years. Finally bought one, saved up for a Taylor 314CE, which is a very good acoustic, but there was something about the one I got, it just sung. Owned it for 15 years, can't even estimate how many hours I played on it. Loved that guitar. Had to sell it in 2020 because I desperately needed the money after Covid messed everything up. Guy I sold it to seemed to really love it, so I'm glad it went to a good place, but man, wish I didn't have to sell that guitar.

I would do anything to be able to play guitar again. I always try to save up for a cheap used set up from a local shop or guitar center (my happy place). Unfortunately I’m in a very very tight situation and I’m happy for what I do have because it could always be worse. But boy I would love to have a little setup to play and get my mind off the depression or at least try to find joy in something it just really sucks I don’t get to do anything I used to enjoy anymore… I sure Do miss my cheap Ibanez Gio and line 6 12 inch… those were the best things I owned to bring me joy ..

I sold an early 2000’s Jackson SL3 in orange sunburst. The one that got away for sure. I can still picture what the neck felt like in my hands.

I loved Yamaha Pacifica guitars. Never owned one but I always played them in the stores.

I own 19 guitars, including my very first classical nylon string ('89) and my first electric a Yamaha RGX121D ('94), and a handful of 90's ESP's including a pre lawsuit LTD explorer. I've only sold 4 instruments during my 3 decades of playing... the only one I kinda 'regret' selling was a dark purple prototype Hamer Standard with hot rod flames graphics.... the silver lining was I sold it to Rick Nielsen after he saw my page on the Hamer roster on their website so it stayed in the Hamer artist fam and definitely ended up in the right hands. I still have my 3 customs they made for me during my endorsement and will never part with those ones. Your Yamaha looks like it may have been from the mid-90's RGX series.....

I’m gonna write a book called guitars I should have never sold . Vol. 1-2 lol… my 69 les Paul , 73 Strat 59 dot es 335 😢

I was just at that Roseville guitar center 😄

I'm never getting rid of my first guitar. A squier strat named Sidney after Sidney Prescott from Scream. She's pretty beat up but I still love her. In the coming months and a lot of money I am however going to give her a well needed make over. New paint job, neck, pickups. The only thing that'll still be the same is the body herself. She'll still be my first guitar and I have 10 others but she has and still serves me well. Along with the new paint job, I'm also gonna paint Ghost face on there with a stencil because I don't want to fuck it up because I know I can do it free hand but it would have to be first try. If you're a Scream fan ya'll know what I'm gonna say when I'm done 🙃

Mine is a 1990 Ibanez green dot universe I had in college. I'll take a loan if I have to get my hands back on it. What a guitar, Ibanez knocked it off the park from the start with their 7s.

8:07 "oh my god man those better have been some great drugs" lmfaoooo

Oh man... I ALMOST made this mistake when I thought of selling off my first ever bass that my Dad bought me back in the early 90's. I almost sold it cause I bought a new 5-string bass and my mom and I were kinda going through a rough financial patch. She suggested I sell it for any bit of cash cause in her mind, she couldn't understand why I would want or need more than one bass. It's a little starter Fender P-bass knockoff called a Gremlin Slammer bass _(only a few years ago, I discovered this bass model was apparently sold by other companies like Cort and Matsumoko as well, probably in a joint sales venture)._ The bass is black with silver hardware, the body is plywood and EXTREMELY heavy. It felt like strapping on a bag 'o bricks and the nylon Carvin guitar strap I bought for it really dug into my shoulder hard, haha. Still, it has a great P-bass pickup that sounds awesome despite it being a beginner bass. I almost sold it to someone who was beginning to dabble with bass but, eventually lost interest in it. I'm so glad I never sold it to them cause as I said, it was my first ever bass that my Dad bought me. In Nov. of 2011, my father passed away. My Dad and I got along okay but, we never really had a close relationship. Still, there were some cool times when I was a kid in the 80's. Now that I'm a lot older, I have really started to miss my father and I find myself wishing he was still here, just to be able to talk to him and spend time with him. Having no siblings and with my father now gone, I have really begun to realize just how close I really am to truly being alone in this world. I'm just glad my Mom is still here. Case in point, i don't know what I would've done had I sold one of the few things that I still have, given to me by my father. Hell, I still also have the little Quantum B-10 Terminator bass combo amp that my Dad bought along with my bass, haha! That little amp doesn't work anymore. I played that thing to death, unfortunately. I learned so much using/playing that little bass and amp. I cut my teeth on that bass and amp. The bass itself was in pretty bad shape in the hardware dept (rusted screws, rusted bridge, rusted tuners) but, I'm glad to say that in the past couple of years, I have begun to restore that little bass. Bought new black hardware for it and I have to say I love the way it looks now. I wish I had had the money to make those types of upgrades back in the day. I still break out that bass to practice finger exercises or just noodle around unplugged while watching TV and such. I still have my 5-string bass as well as a few more newer basses and even some new guitars as well. Got a new amp rig, upgraded FX pedals, new upgraded recording gear etc. etc. all of which I love but, even amidst all that gear, you can still find my little Quantum amp and Gremlin bass nesteled in there among all my new(er) gear. An unspoken salute to my Dad. Something to keep his memory alive, together with one of the most important things ever in my life which he contributed to - my first steps in becoming a musician...

When I was about 5 years old my grandpa bought a red mini squire strat to teach my cousins and I. I loved it and wanted my own. I saved Christmas/ birthday money and ended up getting the $100 needed to buy one. When I got into middle school I ended up getting an SG as a gift and later on a parts-caster tele from my grandpa. In high school I decided I had too much stuff and didn't need that mini squire so I sold it + the 15g amp it came with for like $50. (Probably 2015/16-ish). It's now been a little over a year since my grandpa died and while it is nice to have the tele I got from him I do wish I had kept my first guitar. That's what he taught me on and he was the one that drove me to go buy it. It doesn't bug me all that much. The guitar went to a little girl who's dad was teaching her to play and I'm glad it got put to good use. Just wish I still had it.

Divorcing my ex wife she threw my fender out back with everything else. Cracked neck and body. To this day I still have it 😂. Burst color made in Mexico. It has some character now. The divorce guitar. No one cheated or anything, no foul play. She had a drinking problem. Crazy

Your Yamaha looks like it maybe a Yamaha RGX. I think I may have seen one similar with a pickguard but in another colour a long time ago

My first ever "real" guitar was a black Gibson SG Special that my parents bought for me as Christmas gift at that same Guitar Center in Roseville in the mid 90's. I sold it just so I could buy a guitar with a single coil pup that I wanted at the time. I've sold several guitars and thats the one I regret losing the most. So much history with that guitar, and Gibson doesn't make them in that finish anymore.

My first guitar was a Peavey Predator with HSS pickup configuration. Needless to say I definitely don't regret selling it at all. I did see one used at a Guitar Center many years later, took it down and played on it a bit. For a budget guitar those were really well-made and solid! If there's one guitar I kind of miss, it's a red BC Rich Mockingbird that was from roughly 1983/84. I bought it used in 2000 for about $300, and the previous owner had installed SD Invader pickups!

Luckily I was smart enough to keep my first guitar. It is a 70s Vintura Les Paul copy. The one I regret sell was an Ibineze roadstar all black with the sweetest Floyd rose. Have been looking for one for years…maybe I’ll come across one, one day.

My first electric was a handmedown . Brother traded his knee board for it VOX HURICANE you never see these I think it was like strat/ jaguar 60's then I got a Les Paul copy 70's can't remember what make that was.

I once had a washburn 2ST that I loved and bought being a Dimebag fanatic. But the neck was too wide for my little hands. So I gave it to my baby brother for free since he was like a foot taller than me. About 2 years later, my cousin told me my brother tried to sell it to him for pennies.

Hey Mike, I think that guitar you thought was a Yamaha Pacifica may actually be a Yamaha RGZ612PL?? I'm just guessing because I know the guitar has a Floyd Rose bridge and I didn't really find that many results of a Pacifica with Floyd Rose bridges

My 1st guitar was a Harmony Explorer black with a red pinstripe.. It had a cheap Floyd rose which is probably why I sold it.. I've had some incredible guitars since but I had a 2011 Fender strat pro 1107 in 3 tone sunburst & 70's headstock, what a stunning guitar & played like a dream..wish I had that back.. 🤘💀🤘

Dude I hear ya I got rid of my tom delonge start and I still regret it and miss it almost twenty years later

I'm just seeing this video and it caught my attention because I have sold guitars and basses in the past that I wish I still had. The hardest part for me is the one guitar I regret selling more than anything was a Red Gibson Flying V just like the one behind u in the video. 😢

ESP LTD M-401. I sold it when I moved across country because I was limited what I could take on the plane. I was the original owner of it, and made upgrades to the pickups and got it broke in just the way it was comfortable for me. I miss that guitar.

With all of my Christmas money and a little help from my mom, when I was 8 years old I got a white Dean Flying V copy from my local guitar store, because Zack from School Of Rock had a white Flying V and that was my favorite movie. It was one of the best days of my childhood and I still remember seeing it and picking it out and trying it out in the store. When I was 12 or so I wanted to sell it to buy some airsoft guns but I never did and I am incredibly thankful God did not let that happen lol, I still have it and I’m so glad I do because I’m very attached to it coming from that part of my childhood. I also love my Mom and my Dad for supporting my rockstar dreams when I was that age, and ever since.

I have 2, I had an all black 7 string vai universe with the mirror pickguard I sold just because I didn’t play it much. Still kill myself over, and I had a swirl painted lime green Jackson I sold as well cause I didn’t like floyd rose guitars. Miss them dearly, and I hope whoever has them now enjoys them.

My older sister gave me her Squier strat when it was clear she wasn't interested. I fell in love with guitar and bought a used Ibanez AXS32 (very underrated budget guitar!). She then sold the strat. I was sad at the time, but now kind of relieved I don't still have it.

I let go a 1977 Gibson Marauder. Bought online, great price. Very cool guitar. Problem was, it stunk SO bad like smoke, it was sticky. Couldn’t gel with it. Traded it for a mid-70’s Traynor YRM and matching 2x12. No regrets.

The one I regret selling was an Epiphone Les Paul Studio. It was my first "serious" electric guitar after some soviet one I got from my uncle. I was 18 then and I bought an Ibanez SZ520 (18th birthday!) which was (and still is) my dream guitar. I thought that I don't need that Les Paul anymore so I sold it to a luthier who kind of fell in love with that guitar. I didn't know that this heavy-ass axe was made in Bohemia Musico-Delicia in Czech Republic and Epiphones made there were considered of higher quality - some people even claim that these were on par with Japanese ones. I learned about this when out of curiosity I checked the serial number on the Internet and it occured to me that I sold a very nice (and kind of rare) guitar.

I sold my Epiphone Les Paul 100. it was cheap when I bought it, sold it even cheaper. It had some issues, but still... I really miss it.. I sometimes check it online if the current owner tries to sell it...