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Joined: January 2009 Posts: 4535 Location: Flahdaw | Okay, we have a good number of old-timers on this forum.... Do you remember the very FIRST song you ever learned all the way through? For me it was House of the Rising Sun (the Animals). I was probably 12 years old and it was about 1968. Actually it may have been a tie with Louie, Louie, now that I think about it. How 'bout the rest of you? | ||
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Joined: October 2006 Posts: 5575 Location: big island | washington square by the village stompers. | ||
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Joined: November 2004 Posts: 1330 Location: ms | I started writing songs before i started playing guitar so i was always trying to put music to my stuff. But i think Stars by Dan fogelberg was the first song that i could play all the way through. i still can`t sing it very well, way too high. | ||
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 5881 Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Red River Valley, 1959 or 1960, followed by many other four-chord songs from the 50's. Ah, but then we discovered solid body electrics, bleach blondes, and surfboards. | ||
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Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6268 Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | "Wake Up Little Susie", Everly Brothers | ||
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Joined: April 2006 Posts: 972 Location: PDX | I don't remember the exact first piece but it was either a Sor, Agaudo, or Carcassi student piece back in '65 or '66. _____ gh1 | ||
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Joined: February 2008 Posts: 747 | School music book when I was in grade 6. I didn't know more than a couple of chords but I could read and play the single notes while a few other people sang. I took the guitar to school in a green garbage bag. First song I learned that had a bunch of chords that I could use to make up other songs with would have been Rising Sun I guess. There was a thread on this awhile ago - whatever I said there..lol | ||
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Joined: August 2008 Posts: 121 Location: Maine | Green, green grass of Home | ||
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Joined: January 2009 Posts: 4535 Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Joe Rotax: Being a relative "newbie" I should have guessed that there was already a previous thread on this subject. I should have done a search. But I was at a music store today, and a older guy was playing "Greensleeves" and it got me thinking about all these old songs I used to know that I haven't played in 30 years or so. There was a thread on this awhile ago - whatever I said there..lol Hey Gulfcoast, it's funny you would say "Stars". I used to play that back in college ('77, '78). The girls loved it, but "Looking for a Lady" would make 'em melt. It was the 1st song I played for my then future wife, and we've been married for 28 years now.....must have worked! | ||
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Joined: February 2008 Posts: 747 | Yeah, I wasn't taking a shot at you or anything I was just contemplating the irony of trying to remember what I'd said before..lol Greensleeves is another one that I learned way back when. | ||
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Joined: July 2005 Posts: 3408 Location: GA USA | Mine was "The Wizard" by Uriah Heep. My brother taught it to me. | ||
Capo Guy |
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Joined: December 2004 Posts: 4394 Location: East Tennessee | "O' Lonesome Me" - Don Gibson. | ||
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Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6268 Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Joe Rotax: Hey Joe (oops, that was later), that's what took me so long to respond to this thread! I don't get too many 49 y.o. flashbacks any more... irony of trying to remember what I'd said before..lol | ||
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Joined: November 2006 Posts: 3969 | King of the Road - Roger Miller | ||
Joe Rotax |
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Joined: February 2008 Posts: 747 | Originally posted by 2ifbyC: Yeah, there's things I think I know happened but they're not on Google so now I'm not sure if they really happened at all..lolI don't get too many 49 y.o. flashbacks any more... | ||
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Joined: August 2005 Posts: 3736 Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Short memories... :rolleyes: | ||
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Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6268 Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by muzza: Day-um muz, that was way back in Oct. of LAST year! Give us really ol' farts and the newbies a break... ;) Short memories... :rolleyes: BTW, what strings do you like? | ||
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 5563 Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Ya know, looking back on the older threads remind me how connected we all are even in our disconected ways...this is a great group...Thanks Al, Thanks Miles! BTW- 1966: Little Black Egg and House of the Rising Sun...My parents still refrain from speaking to me...lol | ||
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Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12750 Location: Boise, Idaho | Might have been Stairway to Heaven, except for the solo. Rising Sun is another possibility. | ||
2ifbyC |
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Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6268 Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by MusicMishka: Mike, as to our "disconnected ways", it's soooo unique and rewarding! remind me how connected we all are even in our disconected ways...this is a great group... BTW- 1966: Little Black Egg As to LBE, holy crap!!!! I loved that song! You've really tripped my few remaining synopsi... THANX! | ||
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Joined: March 2008 Posts: 179 Location: Central Florida | Awwwww.... COOL!!!!! I remember them doing that in concert in St Paul. Don't think it was really on the setlist, they were just trying to fill in with anything after the bass player (think it was John Wetton) was hauled offstage unconscious. He had a vocal to do, mumbled some incoherent lines into the mic, took two staggering steps backwards and keeled over flat on his back with the bass on top of him. Stunned everyone including the band and the show just stopped. While they tried to sort it out backstage, the rest of the band threw some jams together interspersed with apologies and a promise to come back for a free concert if they couldn't continue. Mick Box did a solo acoustic "The Wizard". Poor guy, they must have just grabbed the closest untuned guitar and threw a mic in front of it 'cause he was having a bitch of a time trying to get it in tune with all of the noise. He finally yelled at the front rows to "Just shut the fock up" so he could tune the guitar. Can't imagine his frustration at that point. They must have pumped something good into Wetton (think Comfortably Numb here) because he finally did come back out. And boy was he happy. Two road guys had to keep dragging him back from the from the front of the stage cause he kept going up there and was going to either fall off or get himself pulled off. No barriers, the audience was right at the stage edge. To his credit he still seemed to play well. Definitely a bad night for the band but sure made for a memorable concert. Well, now that I'm done with my flashback (Thank you, Jas)... I don't remember exactly what my first song was but I'm certain it had a lower cool factor than Uriah Heep. I'm thinking it was Leavin On a Jet Plane. Proud Mary was probably my first hard song what with those fast chord changes and all. And +1000 on "This is a great group", Mike! Otto. | ||
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Joined: August 2005 Posts: 3736 Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Otto: Sorry, you've lost me. WHO doing WHAT? Awwwww.... COOL!!!!! I remember them doing that in concert in St Paul. Ahh! The reference to Jas's post... I get it now. | ||
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Joined: October 2008 Posts: 489 | "Party Doll" by Buddy Knox. Including break - well, some of it. | ||
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301 Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles: Oh yeah Captain... Mine was "The Wizard" by Uriah Heep. Whenever fate brings us together, let's play that one... you sing the high part. :D G-L-O-R-I-A, Little Black Egg, & House of the Rising Sun. Gloria was a good one for learning about strumming patterns. | ||
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Joined: January 2009 Posts: 4535 Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Slipkid: Oh yeah....Gloria! Forgot about that one. That could have been first also. What is Little Black Egg? Gloria was a good one for learning about strumming patterns. [/QB] I also remember that Wipeout was like the first lead song, but everyone wanted to do the drum part. | ||
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