How long has everyone here been playing, and what age were you when you started? I've been playing for 7 years as of this year, and I started at age 11. What about you guys?

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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
-Angus Young

37 yrs started at 14

I first picked up the guitar at 10 in 1964 after seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show but didn't start getting either bit commited to it until 2 years later at age 12 in 1966 so I guess I've been playing seriously for 46 years.

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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.

hi , i started on bass at 12 -13 years old then went onto guiter at about 15 or 16 , it was a long time ago i'm 45 now , cheers
Alan

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Six years, started at 13.

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I guess about 47 years!
Dang I'm getting old!
But came home from a great gig tonight,or should I say this morning,they will have to carry me to the funeral home from a gig.

About the same for me, Reb.

And you know what they say......

"It ain't the years -- it's the mileage!"



Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

30 years, started at 17, selftaught (with an intermediate pause of about 5 years with maybe 30 minutes of playing per week due to time consuming job)

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STRATS ROCK!!! but Teles and Firebirds, too!

started summer of 1960 at age six- so if my math is correct-52 years

Off and on for about 45 years.

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Gary

That's what I like about this place,we have a wide range of ages and experience,some of us have put in thousands of hours playing live and gotten to a point somewhere along the line that it has become second nature,we don't even think about what we're doing,it just flows.
then we have people who started young and for whatever reasons stopped only to pick it up at a later age and really enjoy getting it back...I like to see those posts,they have a renewed passion for the instrument.
and the young players,some are remarkable!....
This is a good place for learning at all ages,it seems from the early teens to the 60s and 70s....music is a universal language,I love it!

Okay, at about 49 years, you can put me in the Guitar Players Geezer Club, too. And I don't know about you guys, but I can feel the mileage! Everywhere except my fingers!

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Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963

Me too CR,my mind say go,but my body says no!
I do have some trouble with my hands and arthritis,but luckily it doesn't hinder my playing too much....arthritis has really done a number on my legs,that's where the mileage really shows!!

Christmas Day 1967 -- Over 44 years. Can that really be?!

Geez, you'd think I would sound a lot better after 44 years!

Just goes to show that the longer you play, the more you realize how much there still is to learn. You might master the guitar, but you can still learn something new every day.

Speaking for myself, when you get to be a geezer guitar player, however, you find it's the retention that becomes difficult. Learn one thing, forget another...

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Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963