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Points: 20031 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2009 at 07:10
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Anyone think 20 is too old to start playing guitar? I've wanted one for a while but never had the time/money. Im thinking of getting one by the end of the week though. 
 
I would say 20 was a good age to start. Just think, by the time you're my age you'll have been playing for 28 years and should be at Petrucci standard at least.
I only started on the guitar a few years ago (although I have been a bass player for around 30 years) and never had a lesson, which probably explains why I'm crap.
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I started at 40 & for various reasons () stopped around 43... which explains why I'm crap at the Hammond.

Still looks good in the lounge though

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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2009 at 08:26
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

So, you've been to Swindon then Angelo Wink


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Angelo,

No, it's the playing of the saxophone that is the key.  He portrayed marvellous imagery with his sax playing.  If he was thinking about beautiful women at the time of playing, I am sure the sound he created would be shaped like a gorgeous female.
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2009 at 13:20
LOL Nice reply, James.

@JJ: I bought a guitar when I was 15, but never learned to play it properly until I started taking bass guitar lessons 3 years ago. It's never too late to start making music. I actually squeezed out an excellent bass solo last sunday (not according to me, but to my teacher who was lurking behind the amplifier) - it was so good that I can't even remember what I played. Shocked
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2009 at 15:42
With all the online resources and intensive tuition available these days I'd say it's never too late to start on the guitar - when I were a lad you might, if you were lucky, find a 'folk guitar' teacher who'd show you a few basic chords, strums and picking patterns, but that was about it.
 
I'm still crap to this day, but I've extended my lack of ability to the ukulele and harmonica as well.
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

I'm still crap to this day, but I've extended my lack of ability to the ukulele and harmonica as well.


Brilliantly phrased, dear sir. LOL
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 08:10
Thanks guys! Im getting the guitar this weekend, on my way back from Pittsburgh, on my way back Cedar Point. Gunna be a good weekend!
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Make sure for your first guitar, you get yourself something straightforward like this:


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Points: 2696 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 09:53
^ nuthin more straightforward than a big expanse of whiteness....................................Confused



DOH! Where did that pic come from............. I swear there was nothing there when I first read the post!

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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 10:02
That's Nick's favorite geetar, isn't it?

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Psshhht...only SIX necks???
Amateur hour...

Any of you old guys in here like roller coasters/amusement parks?
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 11:06
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Psshhht...only SIX necks???
Amateur hour...

Any of you old guys in here like roller coasters/amusement parks?
 We can take all the excitement there is...
 
 
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 11:24
Dean! Wild Man!!!

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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 16:28
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Make sure for your first guitar, you get yourself something straightforward like this:

 
Thay looks like it was taken outside Macari's on Charing Cross road - they've certainly got a few of those beasties in stock.  
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 16:31
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Psshhht...only SIX necks???
Amateur hour...

Any of you old guys in here like roller coasters/amusement parks?
 We can take all the excitement there is...
 
 
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LOLLOLLOLLOL   That is one of the best pics I've seen
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 17:59


If you don't want the bass guitars included, this could be an alternative. And you're missus will consider all you play to be a serenade.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 18:03

That's almost as bad as the X guitar of Michael Angelo Batio
What?
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2009 at 20:29
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

That's almost as bad as the X guitar of Michael Angelo Batio



Dead Ugh...I hate Batio. AND that disgusting quad neck guitar. Although, I hate most shredders. The only ones I do like are Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 14 2009 at 02:06
Bless'im - I love the "I'm a serious musician - give me respect" face, too



If you want a serious double necked guitar, there is none cooler than this:



Ironically, hinged in the middle, which is more than can be said for its owner, who is distinctly unhinged (yet still a national treasure)

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Points: 65494 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 14 2009 at 02:14
 ^ that's obscene 
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