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Post subject: Re: How old were you...
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:20 pm
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My first "professional" gig, at age 16 (I think we each made ten bucks).

:lol:

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Hey but you guys got paid...that's step #1.


Pretty cool...a lot of people started playing pretty young. A lot of different instruments too. I started on guitar and stayed right there. I really would like to learn a couple different instruments at some point though.

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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:23 pm
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Cool pic, Dennis.

After my initial fiasco with the Teisco I bought a "road-worn" two-pickup Melody Maker. With my ninety-dollar '65 Fender Deluxe amp I thought I was all set. A year later I'd stepped up to a '66 Strat and a '67 Super Reverb (my first new Fender amp)......

My first "professional" gig, at age 16 (I think we each made ten bucks).

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Arjay - when I was starting out, the only kids who had that much Fender behind or in front of them were the ones who were "connected." Their dads owned the local car lots and loaned money on the side. :lol:

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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 6:45 pm
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Cool pic, Dennis.

After my initial fiasco with the Teisco I bought a "road-worn" two-pickup Melody Maker. With my ninety-dollar '65 Fender Deluxe amp I thought I was all set. A year later I'd stepped up to a '66 Strat and a '67 Super Reverb (my first new Fender amp)......

My first "professional" gig, at age 16 (I think we each made ten bucks).

:lol:

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Arjay - when I was starting out, the only kids who had that much Fender behind or in front of them were the ones who were "connected." Their dads owned the local car lots and loaned money on the side. :lol:


OK Arjay gotta ask...what ever happened to that SFSR? Oh and nice backline!

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Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 7:35 pm
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The SFSR was traded away in favor of a Dual Showman.

In retrospect, I wish I'd kept it.

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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:38 am
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I used to mess around on a little keyboard my parents got me when I was about four. Later my grandparents bought me a full sized keyboard, but aside from a few little kid songs I never really took lessons or anything on it. Now I can play chords on a keyboard, but that's all.

My first real instrument I had (with lessons) was my violin. I was probably about 7 or 8 and I played for less than a year.

When I was about 9 I got my flute and I played it up until high school. I actually got fairly good at it considering my age and the few years I'd been playing, but it was all classical music, no improvisation. When I started playing guitar at 13 I enjoyed the freedom of being able to play anything I wanted in any genre and writing my own music so much that I quit playing flute all together.

Not all of what I did on flute was in vain, I learned to read music because of it. It also translates well into what I'm doing learning tenor sax.

I also started playing drums when I was 15, but I've kind of let that slide lately while I focus more on guitar.

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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:17 am
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when i was 14 i started plunking around on my yamaha classical acoustic. then, when my dad bought a taylor and played exclusively acoustic, i acquired the les paul and old 80s peavey amp and boss gt3 processor. i was 16 then and got pretty serious with the guitar. the rest is history.


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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:15 am
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that's a pretty complex question... i started learning music at the age of 4 at school... started getting into it when i joined the choir and learned to sing correctly without going flat or sharp at 9 (main singer and everything 8) 8) oh yeah ) at 12 i decided to learn an instrument but only at 14 i learned how to play guitar


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I was 13 when my mom's boyfriend gave me one of his acoustic guitars. I was 16 when I bought my first electric.

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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:36 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
The SFSR was traded away in favor of a Dual Showman.

In retrospect, I wish I'd kept it.

Arjay


Good answer Arjay...not that a Dual Showman was a bad amp at all...just have a serious soft spot for those SFSR as you are well aware :lol:

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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:26 pm
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I got a white, plastic, 4 nylon string cowboy guitar, Roy Rogers or Gene Autry, don't recall which, when I was around 5 or 6. It had one of those push-button gizmos on it for one-finger chording. Had a song book with cowboy songs. No one at home knew how to tune it, so I just banged on it and did my famous Elvis impression. I distinctly remember taking it apart during a period of boredom. Wish I still had it.
I do still have the first "real" guitar I got December 25, 1964. I was 13.
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:01 pm
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Seriously diggin' that Tremolux, Garry!

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