33 for abut 2 months. We moved after that and guitar was in storage for about 2 years. Brought it out of storage and picked it back up this past april then put it away for two months while we finished building a house. So now its 35 and I'm practicing almost daily!
Psa. 42:8
By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
17.
Used to be, was a part of me felt like hiding.. but now it comes through. Comes through to you.
48, started about a month ago.
KC (Jim-Bone)
First time, I was around 12. I was a hack pretty much. Knew every cool lick on the "We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll" album though. I started again when I was 33, which was over a year ago.
By the way NEZTOK that's a funny avatar! You aren't from Boston are you? I'm from Mass. and I think all of this is a riot!
Have played since I was 12 - 20 years ago. Started to make some progress 2 years ago :wink:
...only thing I know how to do is to keep on keepin' on...
LARS kolberg http://www.facebook.com/sangerersomfolk
41 and I am currently 43 {or 21 with 22 years of life experiences :lol: }
I concider myself a mid life crises guitarist ...
8)
Still can't play though :oops:
Here is to you as good as you are
And here is to me as bad as I am
As good as you are and as bad as I am
I'm as good as you are as bad as I am
15/16 - I bought my first guitar and stopped getting my hair cut as I left school :wink:
48 and happy I didn't wait till I was 68! Been playing for 1 year now. Wow that went fast!
32. Been 'playing' for 8 months.
I find it very encouraging to know that there are beginners older than me ;-)
28 about a year ago and progress has been slow. Starting to knuckle down now though and am determined to improve.
It's really suprised me how many late starters there are on here. I thought maybe i'd left it a little late at 28, just goes to show you it never is to late at all.
about six years ago at the young age of 45
Well we all shine on--like the moon and the stars and the sun.
-- John Lennon
I started when I was fourteen back in 1973*, but didn't really try to grow that much as a guitarist until about fifteen years ago. I was doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that, getting burned out and not really excelling at any of it. Then one day my wife reminded me that one cannot serve two - or five or six - masters. So in my early thirties I let go of some things that didn't mean as much to me and it breathed new life into my guitar playing.
*A couple of years ago I found an old photo of my cousin and me when we were about two and three years old respectively. We were sitting together on a footstool called on Ottoman. I was "playing" a toy guitar and he was looking at it like "What the heck is that racket?" I still get that look from time to time. :roll:
If the dude woke up this mornin', he's playin'.
I began in 1965. I was fourteen.
have not put it down since.
I'd like to quit my day job so I could have more time to play.
Seems like a common theme...
Started when I was about 13...played for a couple of years...put it down because life took a different turn...picked it back up again at 43.....seems like I am a much better student now then I was then......no regrets.
I may grow old, but I'll never grow up.
Well, I'm not saying exactly since it was a little more than month ago :wink: but it really is encouraging to see that there are others starting in their 30s and 40s. A year and a half ago, dear hubby bought me a mandolin, knowing I had always wanted to play. I figured I was way too old to start, but there it was so I may as well try. I've loved every second of it and learned so much in that short time so this year he decided I wasn't too old to take up a second instrument so home came the guitar. I'm loving that, too. I also regret waiting so long and wonder how much better I could be if I had started sooner, but in reality there was no time in my life before this that I could have devoted the time and energy to it. I may never be great, but I can be better and better. I just want to make music.
Melisa