this is a great site!

[dkobayas]

i don't know why i have only just got on this site...there are a lot of great young players here...i'm 63 and have been playing guitar off and on since i was 15...at that time there were only 2 guitar players in the whole high school...i've had a stick for over 20 years but have only recently begun playing it in earnest...i'm getting an 8 string warr shortly and can't wait...anyway...back to the woodshed...all you youngsters are phenomenal (is that spelled correctly?)

wow and double wow

[rockola]

Originally posted by dkobayas
i don't know why i have only just got on this site...there are a lot of great young players here...i'm 63 and have been playing guitar off and on since i was 15...at that time there were only 2 guitar players in the whole high school...i've had a stick for over 20 years but have only recently begun playing it in earnest...i'm getting an 8 string warr shortly and can't wait...anyway...back to the woodshed...all you youngsters are phenomenal (is that spelled correctly?)

wow and double wow

Thanks for the praise, we aim to please. By the way, we have 5 members who are over 60 (maybe more, since giving your birthday is optional), and you're only the 1st runner-up for the title of Age President...

Let's see now, you're 63 and started playing the guitar at 15, my math says that was in 1956. You didn't happen to buy one of the original Flying V's back in the day, did you?

[dkobayas]

rockola...my first guitar was a harmony w/strings that were about an inch off the frets...my fingers used to get bloody...after that i had a succession of gibsons, gretch, guild...
...wish i still had every guitar that i ever owned...the first record i ever bought without even having heard before was a 45 ep with barney kessel...must have cost a buck or so...i mowed lawns for a dollar an hr...

luv this site

[rjgoos]

Originally posted by dkobayas
rockola...my first guitar was a harmony w/strings that were about an inch off the frets...my fingers used to get bloody...after that i had a succession of gibsons, gretch, guild...


luv this site


Boy, that takes me back. My mom gave me my first lessons on the uke she took to college in '47. My first guitar was also a Harmony, and also had strings an inch off the frets...playing was so painful, to be sure. In those days there were no "in-between" guitars...there were the awful Harmony guitars, and those for sale by Sears, and there were truly wonderful ones (Gibsons, Martins, etc.)...nothing in-between. When the first Japanese-made Epiphones came out, I got one in 1971 or something like that. I didn't know a guitar could play so well.

In any case, the youth of today are spoiled...my sons never knew the pain of playing the guitar, like we did....


R Jay Goos