ol fred Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 From about 55-58 I went to a club almost every Saturday night and watched and listened to the TV broadcast of "Cliffy Stones Hometown Jamboree" The show produced a number of "Stars" that some ol timers might remember. This guy was a regular, I guess he started me down this road, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi4W3qH4xxs&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLCE6AD2CD22564222 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Simple: when I was in high school (early 1960's) it was the guys playing guitar that got the girls I was interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol fred Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 Simple: when I was in high school (early 1960's) it was the guys playing guitar that got the girls I was interested in. Well that's not fair...where are the pics ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brannon67 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Ace from KISS back in the 70's. Had to have a Les Paul. Then when I finally got one, it was no big deal. To heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show and my sisters' reaction to it. My big brother at the time played in a band and told me that the reaction was typical for musicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry K Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 previous threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Well that's not fair...where are the pics ? Unfortunately, the pictures, like the girls, are scattered to the four winds...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol fred Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 previous threads I guess we could just think of it as a bump, thanks for the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tman Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 From about 55-58 I went to a club almost every Saturday night and watched and listened to the TV broadcast of "Cliffy Stones Hometown Jamboree" The show produced a number of "Stars" that some ol timers might remember. This guy was a regular, I guess he started me down this road, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi4W3qH4xxs&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLCE6AD2CD22564222 That guy was amazing and played a double neck! ahead of his time. Thanks for that post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchristo Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I heard Chet Atkins when I was a kid, and when I found out that he was playing all that music by his self, I had to give it a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 The Beach Boys, Kingsmen, and the "Blues" in general, sparked my interest. The Beatles, blew it into the stratosphere! CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Not sure but these things had something to do with it. 1. My mother giving me a Woody Guthrie and a Leadbelly record in the early 1960s 2. A friend of the family giving me an old Martin archtop they had sitting in a closet and showing me my first chords. 3. Putting on Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey's "Toothache Blues" when going through a friend of my father's 78 rpm collection looking for folk music. I had never heard anything like it before. I may not have gotten what was going on in that song but I knew it was subversive. From there on it was all Memphis Minnie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Son House and the rest. 4. Seeing the Beatles on the Sullivan Show with those electric guitars. Man, I had to get me one of those. 5. The rush I got playing my first gig in 1966. We knew maybe 10 songs and played them both with vocals and as instrumentals. We stunk up the place but I knew fame and fortune were right around the corner. But I was never able to recapture the feeling I got from those first gigs again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Beatles and other beat singles and LP's. Can anyone remember Kinks ? It was just a natural thing to reach out for the nearest badminton racket. Like taking the towel after washing hands or opening the first green soda - never a choice, call it a reflex. After that a real guitar wasn't far away. It happened around the next corner. Love Like a Man - Ten Years After, , , then an unauthorized version of Hey Hey We're The Monkees. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 That guy was amazing and played a double neck! ahead of his time. Thanks for that post! Pokey LaFarge looks like this guy's grandson! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Can anyone remember Kinks ?[/size][/font][/color] Remember them? The Davies brothers and the other whackos? How could you forget them? They made some great music, too. You never knew what they were going to come up with next. "All Day and All of the Night" and "You Really Got Me" were classic college garage band stuff in my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Remember them? The Davies brothers and the other whackos? How could you forget them? They made some great music, too. You never knew what they were going to come up with next. "All Day and All of the Night" and "You Really Got Me" were classic college garage band stuff in my day. ~ And then Waterloo Sunset ☼ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slimt Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 My Dad got me interested in Guitars.. Im glad he did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 cheers wily , i always wondered what you looked like. didn't think you'd have such good legs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballcorner Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I was already a singer when a staff member at the juvenile detention center encouraged me by giving me a guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 I think Roberta Joan could inspire anybody to do anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol fred Posted January 10, 2012 Author Share Posted January 10, 2012 Pokey LaFarge looks like this guy's grandson! Wow, good eye Nick. I culled through a bunch of stills of both, uncanny resemblance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 The Andy Griffith Show taught me that guit tars are chick magnets. that; and a steady diet of Hee Haw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdd707 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Women .... gettin' em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Women .... gettin' em Maybe it has to do with those of us of a certain age, JDD. I was in high school when the modern folk craze took off (early 60's), and my first foray into it was creating a PP&M clone singing group. I was just after the blonde! (Didn't work then, by the way. It did work a couple of years later, when you could get a lot of mileage out of a beat-up Gibson, a rudimentary ability to sing and play, and a constant look of angst. What I didn't fully appreciate then was that my beat-up, funky old Gibson carried more weight than the shiny, articulate Martins of the competition. Smart girls. Dumb me. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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