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Location: south east Michigan | You might be sorry you asked....
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Location: Flahdaw | Thanks for the link. Now that I've heard it, I don't think I would have even wanted to learn THAT at age 12. |
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Location: Utah | Whatever Mel Bay was putting in book 1 back in 1966. I can remember learning to play the melody of "Mary had a Little Lamb". The first real song I can remember playing was "She'll be Coming Around the Mountain when She Comes". |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | I forgot about some of these old songs.
"Coming around the Mountain" & "Red River Valley" were the first songs taught to me by my Dad, and the only thing I was allowed to play when he was within earshot.
Funny how times change, I went to jam with some friends (in the early 70's)and they taught me 12 bar blues. I went home and was practicing in my room and my Mom came in and said "Don't play the devils music when gramma's here!" |
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Location: GA USA | I kinda thought "The Wizard" might hit some nerves. It's so "70's idealistic - like to buy the world a coke" and all, but we could have fun with it. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Not counting "On Top of Old Smokey" and "Three Blind Mice" It was one of these... I kindof learned them all at once or at least within the same timeframe around 1970, I was 12. Don't remember which was first.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Sitt'n on the Dock of the Bay
A rocked out "This Land is Your Land" with a lead riff ripped from Hank Williams.
House of the Rising Sun
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Location: Alabama | Ok - this is bad and does not include the electric parts - but....... Stairway to Heaven, probably at the same time as Babe I'm Gonna Leave You circa 1985, and yes I did play it in every guitar store I went to whether or not there was a sign. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | some Beatle tune but I forget which |
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| Well Bill it sure sounds like you started out on the right path....... then what happened to ya? |
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Location: Texas | Well, I can't count those Mel Bay songs, I don't think I ever actually memorized them so I could play them without looking at the book.
I can still recall many bits of songs that I used to play back in the mesozoic era, but, like many, I distinctly remember thinking I was pretty cool when I could pluck out "House of the Rising Sun." To this day, if I am just casually messing around with the guitar, that song tries to pop out all on it's own… I think that the endless playing of it was permanently imprinted on my brain/finger interface. ;)
Of course, I had absolutely no idea what that song was ABOUT at that young age. Besides, we were too busy trying to figure out the words to "Louie, Louie." (EVERYONE learned the "Louie, Louie" chords in those days, but no-one ever really figured out the lyrics…) ;) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | standing,
Your post could have easily been mine! And yes, HotRS somehow is 'planted' in my genes. It's a great chord progression that appeals to most that hear/play it.
"Louie, Louie" was one of the first popular songs in my youth that buried the lyrics under the music. That lead to 'interpretations' which varied from the mundane to beyond risqué!
Oh those were such innocent (re naive) and fun times... |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Probably Lucky Man by ELP. Although Badge and the Wizard came pretty soon afterward. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Beal:
some Beatle tune but I forget which Let me guess.....Octopus's Garden |
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Location: Converse, Texas | It was a Beatle song for me. |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | Imagine. I still can play it, go figure. |
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