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lifeinbinary:
your first guitar will depend on a lot of things, but you really only need something with 6 strings that stays in tune.
First decide if you want electric or acoustic.
If you took a class, you'd probably have to go with an acoustic, so start there.
I hear Washburn’s are good entry level acoustics. I bought a $300 acoustic / electric Ovation and the intonation (ability to stay in tune wherever you are on the neck) went to crap within a year.
Going electric has as many choices as there are opinions, but there seem to be two camps....Gibson and Fender.
Gibson (SG/Les Paul) is generally a harder / brighter sound which lends itself to hard rock (ACDC, Guns and Roses, etc.), while the Fenders (Strat / Telecaster / JazzMaster) tend to be featured in more diverse styles of music from the Beatles to Weezer, surf and Jazz, the cure and red-hot-chili-peppers.
If you have the money, high-end acoustics tend to be:
Martin \ Taylor \ Gibson
and (at that price) it's all about falling in love with the particular sound of "that" guitar.
if you want to go ultra beginner, consider a nylon string guitar. the strings are easier on the hands and the neck is fat. It's like reading a book in big-type.