nicksg941 Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Hey, so yeah how did u? Personally, i was in that boarding school in England, i was a 7 day boarder and the school was easy so i had a lot of spare time which i spent doing really boring stuff.. in the house, or the dormitory where i lived ther was a "music room"- people who had music lessons at school put their instruments there. I had a thought of trying playing guitar, but always stopped- didnt know how to start just kept trying to play... ther was this one guitar there, a nylon- stringed classical shape guitar. It belonged to that kid who was really annoying. He tried to play once, or maybe his dad wanted him too, but he was really dumn so it was just there, anybody could play it. And then the kid got expelled, but the guitar was leftin the room.:D/ Then, one winter evening, somewhere in december i believe, another kid, who was pretty much bullied by everybody cos he had some mental problems, he played smoke on the water. Many people played that all over again, and so i asked this kid to teach me. and he did. took me like 2 days to perfect it. Then i went online, searching for online lessons. I learnt chords, basic tab. Then i convinced my dad to have me doing lessons, but the teacher, was a great guitarist, but a bad teacher.So yeah, thats my story. Whats yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mick Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 My Dad played in a folk group with his two brothers and his guitar was always in reach. I was plinking on it as long as I can remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicksg941 Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 wow) thats cool.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 One of the counselors in the church summer camp I attended told me that if I wanted to get laid I'd better get a puppy or play guitar...and I already had a dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mick Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 One of the counselors in the church summer camp I attended told me that if I wanted to get laid I'd better get a puppy or play guitar...and I already had a dog. AND ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 AND ? And I have 8 guitars, 4 children and 10 grandchildren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mick Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 so it worked haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 so it worked haha It ain't past tense, bro'. It STILL works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Is Dead In My Basement Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I met Jimmy Page at a Pub in Berkshire when i was around 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgTime Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I met Jimmy Page at a Pub in Berkshire when i was around 11. Then he took me to the back room and molested me. God i love doing this... LOLOLOLOLOLz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I always wanted to play guitar all my life, just never had the patience.... So about 2 years ago I bought a guitar and I been at it ever since... To bad it took me so many years to figure out you can do anything you want to do if you put your mind to it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homz Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I grew up in a shack in southern Mississippi. I was the only white child of 10 black brothers and sisters. I grew up with a great love of Southern Black music, but I had no rhythm. I was often made fun of while my brothers and sisters would play jug band music on the front porch. One day my daddy handed me down his favorite wash board guitar. I loved that guitar and hoped to some day be as good as daddy. Then when I was 12 my mother told me I had been droped off on the door step when I was a baby. I was crushed to find out I was to stay this terrible albinoish color. When I was old enough I set out to find my way in the world. I then eventually got a cigar box guitar and from there I became a rock star. I moved to England in 1966 and developed an awesome British accent. You might know me by my stage name. Jimmy Page. I rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black_six6 Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 When I started listening to Metal, I asked my friend to teach me. I ended up learning by myself, and have been taking some guitar lessons to broaden my playing scope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 One of the counselors in the church summer camp I attended told me that if I wanted to get laid I'd better get a puppy or play guitar...and I already had a dog. And what kind of church camp was this? :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvhbngh Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I used to play guitar hero a lot. When I played as slash in guitar hero 3, he inspired me to learn how to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Well.... My boarding school experience was in New England and there wasn't a lot of time. Classes six days a week, study hall seven days a week, mandatory sports, grades posted on a bulletin board every three weeks... I played brass through high school. In the late 50s and early 60s there was a place for it. Then a boarding school swing band kinda dropped in '62 into a dual combo: two guitars, drums, sax and trumped for rock, piano replacing the guitars for jazz. We'd swap sets '62 and 63 school year. Since I'd hung out at the Club 47 in Cambridge in 61-63 on vacations during those two school years I'd decided to get a guitar. Got one the summer of '63. No turning back. Of course, getting my front teeth knocked out helped the decision against the brass stuff. <grin> Seriously, no matter what style I've worked on at various times, there's nothing better than a guitar for personal at home music or playing for money. Even playing music in styles you don't care for offers a learning opportunity that seems to be more easily and quickly adaptable on guitar than any other instrument except perhaps drums and bass. As for the getting laid... well, even before AIDS I was rather cautious and preferred lady friends to strangers discovered flirting at the guys on stage. Of course even then there was plenty of bad stuff to go around. Always kinda hoped to find a girl to sing with long term. Never happened. Darn Bobby Troop anyway. Just one point, though... I also discovered that "southern black music" is not unlike "northern plains white music" in that until the 50s, I think people did music the best they could with what they had and played songs they liked rather than "songs in this specific style" society started telling them was appropriate. So... Gary Davis had a ball playing Stars and Stripes Forever and Glen Miller did Little Brown Jug and Leadbelly did Irene Good Night and Roy Rogers sang "cowboy" songs with jazz chords and changes... Nowadays it seems as if you get labeled an "X" kinda musician regardless of what you can, and can enjoy playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 And what kind of church camp was this? Non-denominational, I think. :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicksg941 Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 I grew up in a shack in southern Mississippi. I was the only white child of 10 black brothers and sisters. I grew up with a great love of Southern Black music' date=' but I had no rhythm. I was often made fun of while my brothers and sisters would play jug band music on the front porch. One day my daddy handed me down his favorite wash board guitar. I loved that guitar and hoped to some day be as good as daddy. Then when I was 12 my mother told me I had been droped off on the door step when I was a baby. I was crushed to find out I was to stay this terrible albinoish color. When I was old enough I set out to find my way in the world. I then eventually got a cigar box guitar and from there I became a rock star. I moved to England in 1966 and developed an awesome British accent. You might know me by my stage name. Jimmy Page. I rock. [/quote'] lol.) that was really funny.) I liked that... :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 nicksg941... Yeah, Homz thingie sounded neat. More than a little plagarism, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Our godmother came to watch us when our grandmother passed away (I was 7 years old), and she gave my brother and me a piano lesson everyday. Then a friend of my father gave us a guitar and we started playing that around the age of 13. Studied piano a lot more back then than the piano. Now it's the other way around (although I doubt I'll ever be good enough to be accepted to Berklee and Eastman like I was on piano). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 My Dad played and there was always a guitar around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckomf Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Homz, I still remember how you always talked about having an all red pool table and a giant stuffed camel. BTW- do you still have that thermos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Is Dead In My Basement Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 God i love doing this... LOLOLOLOLOLz Hey!!!! i resent that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruznolfart Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 nicksg941... Yeah' date=' Homz thingie sounded neat. More than a little plagarism, but... [/quote'] heh heh. I kept waiting for a Montovani reference. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked1 Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Then when I was 12 my mother told me I had been droped off on the door step when I was a baby. I was crushed to find out I was to stay this terrible albinoish color. When I was old enough I set out to find my way in the world. I then eventually got a cigar box guitar and from there I became a rock star. I moved to England in 1966 and developed an awesome British accent. You might know me by my stage name. Jimmy Page. I rock. First of all, the only albino in this house is ME! Secondly, if you *were* Jimmy Page, I'd never let you out of bed. LOL And lastly, to answer the question, before I started grad school, I bought a guitar and learned a few chords. I can only do about a half dozen chords and my rhythm is completely "boom-chick" but it's handy to have when I'm trying to write once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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