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Location: Berkeley, CA | If you mean actually get a guitar and start learning, at age 62? My (adult) daughter Sue, who plays.
I've "wanted to" all my life, but always let other s*** get in the way.
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Location: Jet City | Now that I think about it, there were some players that influenced me, but the first time I ever played an electric guitar... well it was that guitar that made me excited about playing.
An Ovation Preacher... then when I had enough $, I traded it and some cash to the same store a few months later for the UKII.
THAT influenced me more than any WHO |
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Location: Yorkshire, England | My Dad and probably Roy Wood. |
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Location: SoCal | One of my guitar heros, Jimmie Dodd.....
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Blame it on DAD (RIP) {fingerpicking in white}
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Stratocaster Mikey, a Street Musician in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA. (although I don't try to emulate Hendrix)
Don't know about nowadays, but in the 70's you could go from one corner to another and sample dozens of excellent musicians of all genres.
Strat and LP players, hammer dulcimers, conga drums, even one dude from NC with a Banjo!
Steel drums and marimbas in the subway. (Great Acoustics for that!)
Anyone could sit with a guitar-and-open-case and get change... But the Good People would attract a crowd of fifty people on a corner, and pass the popcorn bucket every fifth song or so...
When not working, these folks would sit around the park and swap licks and progressions. Half of them were studying at the Berklee School of Music, and playing on the street paid the bills and gave them the most important thing...
An opportunity to play whatever they wanted before a Live crowd of critics.
Left an impression on me! :cool: BTW- Robin Trower is playing at the Berklee Performance Center Tomorrow - I\'ll miss that! |
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| Listened to the Beatles and all kinds of early Rock but did not think to learn until Steve Howe and the whole YES sound experience, Jimmy Page, and then as the 70's progressed so many more. this was my teenage years. and the time we are most influenced anyway.
As I learned I began to appreciate Acoustic music as it was not as easy as I once thought it was. I found I had a flair for creating "drama" on an acoustic but not the blinding speed the new generation of electric guitarists were reaching for. Acoustic Bands like CSN, America, and all the rest became my first actual practical teachers.
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| The kid down the street had a Roy Acuff Silvertone, he gave it to me. That's where it all started... :rolleyes: ;) |
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | She is an italian folk-rock singer. She is really nice and sing both in English and Italian. Pretty famous across Europe. I hope you enjoy it....
It's seam difficult to play but it's not.
R.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=rYMl-oVvbWY&feature=related
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Location: Berkeley, CA | Nice.
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Location: San Fernando, CA | Hank Marvin of The Shadows (backup group for Cliff Richard in England back in the 50's to 70's)- that fiesta red color stratocaster looks beautiful still.
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Who influenced you to take up the guitar?
