Like many other kids of the 60s I saw Ed Sullivan in Feb. 64 my 10th birthday was in March and my parents gave me my first guitar and I haven't put it down since although I didn't start seriously practicing until 12.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

I had been fooling around alot with my mom's old no-name acoustic but I started to get really serious about learning the instrument when I was about 17. 23 now and have never looked back.

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http://www.youtube.com/guitarmike26

Free & Easy Down the Road I Go

I started at age 12 on a hand-me-down Stella acoustic.

31 and I am still 31 now...

Fender Telecaster Deluxe Blackout

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Blues with a feeling.

GUILD GUITARS: MADE TO BE PLAYED!

I had a guitar at age 14, but I can't remember the name of it. I also didn't play it very much. I'd say I really started to play at the age of 31 on a Squier Strat.

This is a tough question.

My Dad always had a guitar in the house, so I had one on my lap as long as I can remember.

I got my own Student Sized Acoustic at 8, and played the first 12 notes of Baby Please Don't Go and a handful of Surf Riffs for the next 8 years.

At 16 I got a Bass and an Acoustic Guitar and go serious. That's when I say I started, but the noodling and fooling around I did before that was experience that must be counted.

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"Persistence Is The Father Of Invention"
-Crazy Old Man In Training

I remember when I smashed my first guitar (around age 12)...it was just a toy acoustic kind of thing...I may be a rock star yet

As for playing, I started last year. I'm not nearly as far as I should be. Still at very basic levels. The journey is the fun though!

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"There is more to life than increasing its speed." Mahatma Gandhi

Owner of:
-2008 American Standard Strat in Candy Cola Red
-Vibro-Champ XD
-Fender CD-60 Acoustic (Sunburst)

Hi all

I am 47 years old and I bought, my very first, Stratocaster in September of 2009.

A 2006 Highway One (old style, small headstock)

3 color sun burst.

I am just learning to play at the moment.

Take care.



JASTER

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Gear:
2006 Pre-upgraded Highway One, 3 color sunburst, with Vintage Noiseless pickups and old school, small headstock and fender logo.

Remember....

Live...Laugh...Love...and keep on playing !!!
Music is a gift, for all to enjoy!!!!

I started when I was 11 playing the worst used acoustic guitar ever made with action a mile high and 300-year-old strings. Not knowing what to do with it, I started taking lessons in a Parks & Recreation summer group class (that's not a joke, btw). Not getting anywhere fast, at the age of 12 I finally (after much begging) got my uncle to let me borrow his vintage Fender Duosonic and Gibson amp (the amp barely worked). These were what my uncle got previously for him to learn on, but he gave up. Ohhhhhhh, this was muuuuuch better. With this real gear came also one-on-one lessons, and from there I be rollin'....

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Laughing out loud with fear and hope, I have a desperate plan ...

Started at 13 with my Epi Granada, which I still have. Time off and started again about a year ago at 57.

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2015 Epiphone Casino Goldtop
2011 Taylor 814ce
2009 EC Custom Shop Merc Blue
2008 Schecter ATX
1964 Epi Granada E444T
Fender Super Champ XD

I started in 1987 when I was 17.

16 on a cheap showmaster style guitar, now 27 playing primarily Jaguars. I need that new gun metal/crimson burst jag HH

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Wanted a guitar when I was 13, got one when my kid was 13. Been almost a year now, still cant play much, but still tryin. Collected a few nice guitars in the last year, so it's all on me to find the time now ;(

I know I will learn, when I ocd, I OCD.

I started in 1958 at age 12. JESUS on a Stella acoustic. First electric was a Kay double pickup pawn shop guitar, with a Kay tube amp - about 4 watts.(1960) Over the years many Fenders, Gibsons, Silvertones, Teiscos, Ibanez, Yamaha etc. etc. Amps, much the same. Now I own twenty-seven assorted Fenders Gibsons, Epiphones, a Gretsch, a couple of Yamaha Guitars and my favorite amp is my 59 Bassman LTD. I figured I'd probably outgrow this sickness.....but one never does. I still work with a great band, tho we don't gig as much as I used to. Just the good paying jobs a couple of times a month - enough to get a fix once in a while.

Started aged about 8 on a Yamaha Pacifica that I still own!
But I rarely use it, sometimes just for obscure tuning.

I use my Fender Strat or Ibanez RGT these days.