How old were you when you started to play the guitar?

14 years old.

First song i ever learned was warning by Green Day I think

 

14. Quit at 15.

 

I've been playing the blues since I was in the womb. I've had a hard-knock life.

 

Hard knock life??

How do you think that was for dear old Mom?

Did you have your guitar in there with you??

 

Yep. It was a stem-cell guitar.

 

well i never have played guitar. never could reall feel comfortably able to get my hands arround a fretboard. did sortof half way learn ukilali once. that was the closest i ever came to a stringed instrument. but i was inspired, somewhere arround 6 or 7 to want to learn to play an instrument by watching the benny goodman story movie that was out arround that time, in the early 50s. when i reach the fourth grade, that would make me about 9 then i guess, the school i was going to was starting a band department. they didn't have any reed instruments left so they handed me this thing that was kind of like a french horn except it has trumpetlike valves, called a mellophone, and also interchaingable plumbing to make it be in quite a variety of keys. (we generaly played it set up for Eb).

when i got into highschool, in band there, i had a french horn. i think about my second year there my dad got me a proffessional double french horn. i always wish i could have kept up with it, but then, when i was in the air force (to avoid getting drafted into the army, another long story), he gave it away to someone else. (yes i think he was a little goofy, both of my parents were in different ways)

eventualy i taught myself the fingerings of recorder, and then dinked arround with keyboards when analog synthasizers were comming out and personal computers like we have now weren't yet in stores where you could just buy one and take it home and plug it in.

so i can't say as i've ever actualy DONE anything with music, other them basicly amused my self, but i did start learning the odder (and mellower and i still think cooler) trebble clef brass when i was in grade school. and of course i never have forgotten how to read sheet music.

i keep wishing one of these days i'll get myself a decent book on music theory.

i think i'm a bit long in the tooth to be thinking about starting a music carreer now. but i have had fun with it on and off over the years. and truely sorry it never did become anything more then a hobby.

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First guitar at 9, first lesson at 10

 

first started taking guitar lessons at 5.... got a toy one before that though. I was learning by hearing and reading through the suzuk method until i was mayve in seventh grade and started to get into playing other kinds of music.

 

I'm not in any groups this year though.... geez i need to get in one and play places again... anyone in CT want a guitarist...

 

I was about 14 or 15 when I picked up my friends Ibanez roadstar and started playing. Hell, he wasnt doing much with it, I figgered I couldnt sound as bad as he was! lol

 

about 18 or 19. I learnt to play Bass first.

 

I was 14, started because i had to play a song in front of my classmates at school

 

I was eight.

 

14

 

12 i think. or 11

 

I was about 11 or 12. Paid $25 bucks at my favorite 5&10 for my first flat-top box. Generic but sounded good to me. These days I got my eye on a pretty 12 string acoustic Ovation model.

 

I just sold two guitars and got a Martin HD-28LSV.

That thing is every guitar I'll ever need.

I've been playing guitar since I was about 13.

 

I was about 12 with a terrible harmony acoustic, then was allowed a terrible gold flake Peavey at 14

 

17 and i was hocked

 

i was 7 a Roy Clark Acostic Signiture series guitar was given to me by my dad. I think he got it from a tv add.