Let's see what I can do for the curve:
Started taking lessons in 1957.
Let's see what I can do for the curve:
Started taking lessons in 1957.
I took up the guitar in eleventh grade in the spring of 1977. Cheap pawn shop guitar just like the ones that are now "vintage" and commanding stupid money on Reverb and Craigslist. My first amp I hacked together using a cassette recorder and a 12" speaker I swiped from the old man's console stereo and mounted in a cardboard box. Kids learning guitar today don't know how easy they have it. Never took lessons. Wore out several copies of "Still Alive And Well" by Johnny Winter that summer trying to learn those licks. My stock answer when someone asks me how long I have been playing has always been "Long enough to be a whole lot better at it than what I am".
Let's see what I can do for the curve:
Started taking lessons in 1957.
Looks like we got a winner.
Cheap pawn shop guitar just like the ones that are now "vintage" and commanding stupid money on Reverb and Craigslist. My first amp I hacked together using a cassette recorder and a 12" speaker I swiped from the old man's console stereo and mounted in a cardboard box.
I would kill to have my old Aria Pro II Les Paul Custom back! I added a custom locking Trem to it also.
I made a speaker cab out of OSB and an old console stereo 12" speaker also
Interesting thread so far ....
Feels like I'm getting to know y'all a little better
Maybe some follow up threads about "Your first electric guitar" and "Your first amp"
Cheers !
Been playing since i was 9. Gigging regularly since i was 11. A few months shy of 50 now so i voted 41+.
Started out around age 9 with a tennis racket and a mirror. By age 10 I had graduated to a cheap classical with no strings and a much bigger full length mirror. Took me until nearly 11 to actually get a guitar and try to learn to play the damn thing. 53 now and still trying to learn to play the damn thing (guitar that is I a virtuoso on the tennis racket in front of mirror obviously).
Started at 7. I am 57 now.
Started gigging in the Navy when I was 19. Still gigging on occassion
Classical from age 9. Heard 'Sylvia' by Focus (at age 15) and took up electric. Pro from '76. Still at it!
Pro from '76. Still at it!
Just goes to show you're never too old. What age are you now - 105 🤣
I started in the age of 49. The age when men buy a Harley and looks for a young women. I decided to learn e-guitar. My wife supports the decision
In the age of 50 I founded a band. We gig 2-3 times a year.
First riff was Smoke on the Water on the open E string. First whole tune probably Caroline by Status Quo. I learned my basic harmony, scales and stuff at 23 and gig most weekends. It’s why the KPA has been an end to GAS for me, same great sound every time.
Just goes to show you're never too old. What age are you now - 105 🤣
"Don't tell 'em Pike!"
41 years now. During the first 35 though I really was more about learning a song and parroting it back not really understanding how Musick worked. Developed a lot of good rhythm skills and right hand technique. about seven years ago decided I really wanted to understand how music worked in relation to guitar so I started studying theory as it related to the guitar fingerboard and it really opened up my playing. I wish somebody had showed me about the caged system years ago because it really expanded everything for me.
I would kill to have my old Aria Pro II Les Paul Custom back!
We've all been there. I bought a new 1984 Gibson Explorer in May of 1984. Played it about 6 years and traded it away for something else. Over the years it became that one guitar that got away that I wish I had kept. In April of 2021 it showed up for repair in a little music shop in the town I used to live in. The shop owner is a friend who sent me a text about it. I offered the owner a bundle of cash and he accepted. 31 years later I got back "the one that got away". These stories don't happen often but it's a great feeling.
Been playing since '76/'77, (age 13), starting with Acoustic lessons but switching to Electric after seeing The Police live in '79.
Have been constantly playing in bands since then.
The band I've played longest with is since '89.
Time flies, but music keeps me young.
I guess I'll just be the baby of the family and hope you guys teach me to crawl and walk good enough to get me to Memphis or Cleveland.
I guess I'll just be the baby of the family and hope you guys teach me to crawl and walk good enough to get me to Memphis or Cleveland.
And we will use you to carry our stuff when we're too old to do it ourself.