Wow, an all rounder, I'm impressed!

CC

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Fender Stratocaster (parts build)
Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

And my ex-wife still doesn't understand why I have so many instruments.

Originally, for the women.

As I grew older and a little more talented, because its really fun.

Growing up I idolized my brother Bill. He was awesome. Everyone liked him, women loved him and he was a talented guy. He was an exceptional jazz trombone player..I mean this kid could really play the horn...one day he comes home with an acoustic guitar. Now..I was a sickly kid growing up always breaking something or just really sick. I wanted to make my brother proud and I always felt like I never did. He alway encouraged me and protected me and looked after me. sorry, back on the story...so I see his guitar and I see how he was struggling to learn it. I was blown away...this is a guy who could do anything. I got the idea when he went out to work that I would try and learn a song and I could teach him...instead of the other way around. Fortunately for me I have been blessed with a great ear...I put on my Eagles Hotel California album(yes album...LOL) and I learned New Kid In Town. The next morning Bill and I are hanging out in our room he is struggling trying to play his guitar and I told him well I will play you a song. I play it...he is blown away and encouraged me to play That was 35 years ago...I haven't stopped since. He was killed in a car wreck in N. Cali 18 years ago and well..I play in his memory alot of times.

Thats a beautiful story bro. Thanks so much for sharing it!

CC

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Fender Stratocaster (parts build)
Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

Women, I wish I could explain it better, but, for inspiration, women.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

For me it has to be the feeling that I have music inside of me that needs to get out. It's a great release and really healing for me.

It may sound corny but I have been going through a lot of things over the past year and for the last 8-9 months since I began playing, I truly feel that it might have saved me.

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I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too.

Well, I'm learning/re-learning some guitar right now. I took lessons when I was a kid. My mom and dad got me my first guitar--a Yamaha classical guitar. I quit playing because I couldn't play it. I think it was the neck and the frets were too big and far apart for me. My dad in Jan 2008 fell in a church parking lot (don't ask--people are mean and tight lipped), was in a coma for 4 months, and woke up a quadriplegic (he still can't walk). I'm relearning guitar because I feel like a jerk for letting him down.

Don't take people for granted. It only takes a second for life to change.

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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

My dad said, "I'm going to miss you."
I said, "Well, now that I broke that sight off your rifle..." (Emo Philips)

CC,
Thank you my brother!! I am glad you appreciate my story. We will have many good times in the future!! Remember the door in the US is always open for you!
Eric

That's not corny at all. I started playing when I was 13, and my Mom had cancer when I was 14 and 15. Music kept me out of a lot of trouble, because that was a really rough time and I wasn't myself.

I don't really remember when I started liking music. When I was really little I liked classical music and I'd make my parents play it all the time. My Mom can play some CCR type stuff on acoustic guitar and my Dad started playing bass again nearly ten years ago after giving it up in college and they both love all kinds of music.

I played violin for about a year when I was 7 or 8, and I played flute from about fourth through seventh grade. I gave up flute as soon as I started guitar, because unlike flute I actually looked forward to practicing guitar. I was self taught for my first year, and I've had lessons since.

When I was 9 I heard rock for the first time, and I guess that's a little late. I was into country music before that. My Dad brought home a greatest hits CD from a band called Audio Adrenaline. I knew right off the bat that I wanted to play electric guitar and that I wanted to play rock. I wanted a Strat because my Dad had a Fender Jazz Bass, I didn't even know who Jimi Hendrix was at that point. My first guitar was my purple Squier strat, I still play it.

Six months after I started learn guitar (I was still 13) I got together with my first band and wrote a song with them. Then I really knew that this was something I loved doing. As nervous as I was on our first gig, I remember being more excited than anything. My Dad's band even let me play guitar with them on gigs whenever their electric guitar player got sick or went out of town. I always got to sit in with them during practice, and eventually they let me play with them whenever I wanted to.

About a year ago I discovered SRV and the blues. I never even listened to blues before, I was into metal, hardcore, emo, punk and that kind of stuff. I played my Les Paul mainly, with loads of distortion and effects. Now I do mostly blues and classic rock with my strat and hardly any effects. I didn't really know anyone who was into blues, and I especially didn't know anyone who could play it so I looked up as many SRV interviews as I could find to learn more. That's where I ended up finding out about most of the people I listen to now. I also watched any footage of SRV playing that I could find, because I was a shredder wannabe who had absolutely no clue how to play like that. And I went from spending about eight hours a week on guitar to eight hours a day (or whatever time I can get). I still can't listen to SRV or any other guitar player that really inspires me for more than about five minutes before I have to go grab my guitar.

That's sort of where I am now, just learning and having fun.

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pretty much the same situation with me, i just needed something to focus on and get my mind off things. From there it turned into something I needed in my life every day, I can't even imagine a day without playing at last 10 mins and all day long I am thinking about my guitars. If I had never bought my first guitar I would be really bad off right now, I truly feel that way. It saved me.

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I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too.

For me I took lessons as a kid and later as an adult took more lessons. It started out as a way to relax, and then became a hobby. Now I think it has become a way of life. Always keeping an eye out for the next guitar.

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"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Blazing Saddles...

I started when I was 43 years old. When I was coming to the end of my Master's degree program at the end of 2007, I knew I would have a lot more free time with nothing to fill it. I've always loved music and the blues in particular, so I decided I would buy a guitar. Since I had no musical background at all, I didn't know whether I would like it or get into it, so I went fairly cheap: a Squier Standard Stratocaster and a Roland Micro Cube. So I've been playing for nearly two years, and--despite having no discernible talent or innate ability--I am having a blast.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

im not sure. i liked listening to music and wanted to understand how it was made. i allmost quit because i thought it was boring at first.

i do miss some of the excitement from when i first started getting serious. i have a hard time enjoying music now that i can listen to it and hear scales and chords instead of just a song.

i think music theory interested me the most, and once i got a firm grasp of it, i allmost quit again.

i feel less passionate about it, but then i buy some new gear to change the sound a little bit. and im constantly selling gear and buying gear to have new toys and sounds to experiment with.

next on the list is a tube amp. ive been playing this scratchy crate 2x12 for like 7 years. i never really liked the way it sounded but it always worked no matter how much i beat it up. so looking forward to a fender tube amp or vox or something nice for a change.

I feel bad with all these people saying music kept them out of trouble. IIve been involved in more drunken brawls, debauchery, and illicit activity in this music thing than I can count....

But yo elaborate on what got me started, when I was 12 years old I saw the Ramones live and it changed my life. That energy and presence and verything, I knew that's what I wanted out of life, I wanted that energy. I wanted that presence and I wanted to play music.

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