I took my first guitar lesson. I found a box of my kid stuff. inside were a few of my first lessons. I thought I lost all that stuff.
well, after all these years of playing I am still mediocre.
some days I am brilliant. some days I just close my guitar case and shake my head.
on the whole I still find excitment, challenge, and opportunity. so glad I started. :D
Just goes to show you...time fly's when your having fun. Are you still playing the same songs?
I may grow old, but I'll never grow up.
That is a very inspiring post.
I read the other day that Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime. Made me feel good about the sales I've made.
ROCK ON!
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am I playing the same songs? good question.
I do. and the lead I could not figure out in my teens I can do now . (Beatles "and your bird can sing')
some songs have slipped into the dark hole of my memory (or lack of).
some songs I will never stop playing.
I enjoy playing some favorites on different instruments to see if it works.
GLORIA on sitar does not work.
but Wild Horses on pedal steel is amazing.
I love playing guitar. it has become part of my self identity.
and GAS never goes away. in fact it gets worse after one has a steady paying job.
wow, another sitar player.
The organ solo from "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is fun. So is Rainbow's "Gates of Babylon".
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Ina gada da vida was wild for it's time.
I am a geezer.
I had that on eight track! :roll:
Same here.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
Me too.
Did I mention I had my picture taken with Ron Bushy Saturday>
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Ron Bushy....? who is that
a cross between Reagan and G. Bush?
absolutely scary
Iron Butterfly's drummer
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I'm having a flashback just reading this post :lol: Its been about 37 years for me, still play allot of the same tunes, but differently. Playing Lz,s "In my time of Dyeing" on banjo is really like...Far Out :D -ken
*insert obvious you're old LOL joke here*
no but that is seriously pretty cool finding all your stuff after that long. it must be amazing to see how much you have progressed. i have been only playing 4 years and when i look back at the stuff i couldn't play a year ago i am just amazed at how much one can learn on this thing
I'm having a flashback just reading this post :lol: Its been about 37 years for me, still play allot of the same tunes, but differently. Playing Lz,s "In my time of Dyeing" on banjo is really like...Far Out :D -ken
Sorry to highjack the thread, but have you been introduced to the "Picking On" CD's? A group of country/bluegrass musicians "pick on", (ie banjo, fiddle and guitar fingerpicking) an existing band..."Picking On Led Zepplin" has "In my time of Dyeing" on it (among many others)..the banjo work is awesome, not to mention the fiddle, the guitar, etc...
Good stuff...
I'll now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.....
I may grow old, but I'll never grow up.
Ida... thanks for the info. and not really off topic. I like ideas like that. it keeps music alive and growing.
segue... growth. looking back on my years of playing I find myself more comfortable and relaxed. there is much less fighting the neck, strings, chords, etc.
so many songs played. one thing that happens frequently, and I am sure I am not alone, I hear a note while I am playing and that note triggers a memory. I then find myself playing a song I hadn't played or thought about for years and years.
it all comes back and I play it better than before.
guitar is wonderful.
tell me your stories.
December 26, 1970, 37 years! :shock:
First guitar had "Happy Trails to You from Roy an Dale! (still have it)
Yes! I do play the first songs I learned! "Walk, Don't Run", "Blackbird" "Hey Jude". Love doing that, my mother has a recording on Reel to Reel of me playing some of these. Great hearing them and now.
"Inna Gadda Da Vida", wore out Three LP's, Four Eight tracks, (with matchbooks underneath!), and God only knows how many cassettes!
It took me three hours to figure out how many guitars I've had over the years, it came to NINETY! Going from really cheap to a 1938 Martin. 58 and 59 Les Pauls, various 335's etc... I wish I knew then what I know now....
Favorite moments, watching my kids play with the same excitement that I have, fixing an air conditioner for a little old lady who didn't have the money to pay, she said "Wait a minute", came out to my truck and attempted to give me her deceased husbands guitar. A 58 Gretsch Country gentleman and an original Blackface Twin. I didn't keep them, I sold them for her and gave her the money, she had no idea what they were worth and I got free pierogies for five years after that during lent! (also REALLY good karma!) Besides, I love pierogies. :D A good trade!
It continues to this day, from this site, from day to day life, from the friends that I've made, and what I can pass on to the next generation.
What a long, strange trip it's been! :shock: :D
Oh, by the way, have you heard "Fade to Bluegrass"? A bluegrass band doing Metallica! :twisted:
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming......
like the passengers in his car.
