I couldn't find too many people from Aussie over here. I'm 23, living on the Sunshine Coast.
I'm french canadian actually, but I married an aussie girl and moved here. :)
Anyhow, I'm quite a newbie to guitar. Strangely, I've always had this attraction to guitar, since I was about 14, and I've only bought my first guitar a month ago. Too late perhaps? Otherwise I've always been playing air guitar/drums/piano (even in public, much to my wife's embarassment) and loved it. :P
I guess what motivated me to really buy a guitar is my long-time hero, Sugihara Yasuhiro, widely known as "Sugizo". The guy was born a virtuoso, and even now, watching him play is just jaw-dropping. He was most famous for playing a 3-neck'ed guitar, playing fretless guitars and just the way he plays solos on the thing, just a walk in the park. He plays it differently than any other guitarist I've seen too.
I've already been reading the lessons and easy songs for beginners for a few days now, and learning a great deal from them!
Anyway, I'm glad to be here. :P
Tell him the liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perception.
Hey Ulfy... Welcome to GN. There are actually quite a few Aussies here. Most of em are pretty nice. :lol: God forbid 23 being to late to start guitar. Many of us are near twice that and recently started. Never too old I think.
Enjoy yourself and hope to see more of ya.
Jim
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” - David Russell (Scottish classical Guitarist. b.1942)
Welcome! I'd never heard of Sugizo, but there's quite a few clips of him on YouTube - he's pretty good :)
Oh, and dead is too old, anything else is fine :mrgreen:
welcome to the board! im also a newbie, to the site and guitar. too old, you ask? never! im 32, and im having more fun with the guitar now than when i first picked it up as a teen-ager (i gave up on it quickly, before learning much of anything).
Dan
I wish I there was more decent clips of Sugizo on YouTube, there's really not much. But since you mentioned it, those are some clips with him: (all of them with the band LUNA SEA he was with, until they disbanded in 2000) Also a good way for me to promote my love of Japanese rock. :P
http://youtube.com/watch?v=msxMHbvHJ4w (Just an acoustic duo with Inoran, he's the one on the right with the funky hair)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mD3WzUlV8vY (The song "Rosier", it has a good solo in, starts at about minute 2:00, there again, he's the one with the purple hair, solo starts at 2:21. Normally it's more clean, but this is the only good live version of it on YT)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aKKKfgY7864 (Solo bit from the "Storm" music video. He's going a bit wild there, but a good solo nonetheless, in my opinion. That's usually how he plays anyway.)
There was my bit of propaganda. ;P
Besides, thanks for all your insights on age! Guess 23 isn't too old to start after all. :wink:
Tell him the liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perception.
Welcome aboard! Glad to have you join us! 8) :D
Dan
"The only way I know that guarantees no mistakes is not to play and that's simply not an option". David Hodge
Welcome!
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gday from another aussie
well adopted australia from the netherlands to be precise
never too old to pick up a guitar.
thirty years on i am considering taking piano lessons - never tried it before
love the guitar - just have to practice more often
welcome to the guitar noise forum
Chritiaan
Welcome to GN!
Bish
"I play live as playing dead is harder than it sounds!"
Yeah dead is too old lol...I'm almost 38 and recently got bitten. Welcome!
Welcome to GN! And don't worry about being 'old', you could be three times as old and still have plenty of time to pick up an instrument. :D
Welcome to GuitarNoise, Ulfy!! We look forward to seeing you around the forums! :D
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"Don't wanna ride no shootin' star. Just wanna play on the rhythm guitar." Emmylou Harris, "Rhythm Guitar" from "The Ballad of Sally Rose"
Welcome to GN, Ulfy.
It's never too late. I'm the big four-oh this month. Been playing a little over a year and loving it.
Look forward to seeing you round the boards.
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I've had a lot of sobering thoughts in my time.
It was them that turned me to drink.
