[crazyseoulsister]

I am so curious to know WHEN everyone started to play the guitar.

So when did you pick up your guitar? Very curious I am!



I am 40 and learned a few chords about 15 years ago. I dont know how it happened but at this age it seemed to click when all those many years ago something was definitely lacking. I am having a blast and am convinced it can only get better.

[scorpius]

It was in 1971 when my curiosity started with the ukulele (ukelele, as it is called in our place) and I was just 11 years old back then. Same year, my older sister bought a guitar which we used. So I have enjoyed strumming some of 60's songs and a lot of 70's, 80's and 90's songs.

[coldethyl]

It was not that long after I got my drivers license back in 1978. I used to drive to guitar lessons. But after a while I my guitar (an acoustic) just started gathering dust since I was going out with my mates, so getting the time to play or practise was quite minimal.

Later on in the eighties I began to take a deeper interest in guitar!

[allthumbs]

First time my hands touched a guitar I owned was around 1974. I had to sell it a year later to help get my sister through college. Got another one a couple of years later and have never been without one since.

[starsailor]

I first started playing in 1975 on a £5 guitar from a junk shop, I played for about a year then my Parents moved house I left home and the guitar was left with my Parents. I started again in the 90s and bought a nice classical learnt pentatonic scales and a few songs but I gave up after about a year. I started again about 2 years ago when a friend gave me a steel string. it was a bit hit and miss at first but I got serious about a year and a half ago and I think it will last this time. I went up in my parents attic a few years ago and was surprised to see my original guitar which had been there since I left home, I rescued it but it has seen better days

[GotDeeBlues]

I really started this time last year at age 55. Played a couple years way back when, so I had a little knowledge from then which helps.

[chammon]

I had been playing a few years when this photo was made in 1955. I'm the uncle here. The rest are my nephews. We were told we sounded "ok" back then. Only my nephew Manuel, playing the fiddle, went on to earn his living in the music business.
I'm still learning. My latest effort is in using thumb and finger picks in playing my accustic guitar fingerstyle.

[Hilch]

Thats a great photo Chammon ...

[crazyseoulsister]

Great Pic Chammon! Are you on the far right or left? Priceless!

[hb]

2 yrs. ago today at the age of 53. I remember cuz it was the day after
Thanksgiving. My wife said at that time, " that's great, it will give you something to do on those long winter evenings".
Now she says, "Pllleeeeeeeesssseeeee, will you put that thing down for a while!"
hb

[Aunt Doty]

I took a few lessons at age 13, learned to play 2 songs and quit. Picked it up again at age 55 and I'm loving it and am working hard to improve my skills.

[JF-30]

1965 for me I was 18 and my girlfriend, who later became my first wife, was a professional folk singer. She taught me the basics, but then I moved to Greenwich Village alone and got lost in the Summer of Love. I did play in a Jug band on Bleeker Street called the Psychedelic Ragtime or Gone Stompers. I sure had fun; what I remember. But my real desire was to play like my idols John Fahey or Leo Kottke or Sandy Bull, but never could measure up. Always was a guitar in the house, just never played it. And I didn't touch music for at least 20 years. It was there so others could play it. All my energy went into my artwork. In 2003 my house burned down in the fires and I took up music because I had no tools anymore. Now I am obsessed and I play every chance I get. So..........Why is it that all of us Baby Boomers are starting back up and playing at this 55-60 age? Seems to be a lot of us!
Bob

[98Bones]

I got my first acoustic in 1978, followed by an electric in 1980. I played mainly chord rhythms and basic arpeggios for about 20 years. Played in some wretched bands in the early years. Took 6 months worth of lessons about 5 years ago and really started playing. A couple of years ago my confidence grew and now I'm quite hooked...

[chammon]

Originally Posted by crazyseoulsister

Great Pic Chammon! Are you on the far right or left? Priceless!

Thanks. I'm the tall skinny kid in the middle. I can't remember what kind of guitar I am holding there but I think it was a Telecaster. It had one pup. Wish I still had it.

[papadog65]

Back in 1954 I bought an ugly, used guitar; sat on a hay bale in my Dad's barn with a "music" book and learned to play some cowboy songs. Nearly fifty years and four guitars later I got serious and began taking lessons. Love that jazz & blues on my 8 year old Peavy Firenza.