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iblive said:
Sheesh. First songs? That was 50 years ago. I’d just purchased my first guitar. Yamaha 12 string acoustic. I was playing it at places like church camp around the campfire. And no. Not making that up for a story. But if I had to take a guess at an early learned song I could play bumper to bumper…… drum roll……

It’d be Kum Ba Ya. And I am NOT playing that for this group of misfits. :pound-hand:
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Oh come now. Play it.
I’ll start up the campfire and we can roast marshmallows.
Then we can pop a Dave Matthew’s cassette in the boombox and watch @Clockworkmike go into an epileptic seizure.

GOOD TIMES!!!
 
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LiveeviL2000 said:
@iblive thats how to do a cover!!! Now all you need is a blue bandana, some cool shades, and BINGO!!! You're golden!!
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My major issue is that I'm pretty much a Cowboy chord strummer...... which works out okay on worship team playing rhythm on acoustic... or I'm doing Peter Paul and Mary or Gordon Lightfoot. Not so okay for doing lead and solos.
 
iblive said:
My major issue is that I'm pretty much a Cowboy chord strummer...... which works out okay on worship team playing rhythm on acoustic... or I'm doing Peter Paul and Mary or Gordon Lightfoot. Not so okay for doing lead and solos.
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I still think you should share with the group .... OMG! This sounds like some self help group.
"Hi my name is liveevil, and I'm a guitaraholic."
 
I have a big zero. I started a week late , worked on a backing track, guitar track started and its on hold.

So maybe over the weekend I'll get it.
The difference between a first song and the first song I wanted to learn is night and day. I have a very specific genre from about 1971 forward. I didn't start off as a guitarist. I was basically just a fan of a genre.
 
Sorry I haven't been here to bump and taunt and cajole all y'alls into action. I've been seriously under the weather here for a couple days, kind of got socked in by some strangely powerful flu or whatever. Beginning to feel slightly human again.

All you fellas who haven't done nothin' yet but lurk in the shadows, or run your keyboard,
time to pop a couple of viagras and see what happens

iu
 
TVvoodoo said:
Sorry I haven't been here to bump and taunt and cajole all y'alls into action. I've been seriously under the weather here for a couple days, kind of got socked in by some strangely powerful flu or whatever. Beginning to feel slightly human again.

All you fellas who haven't done nothin' yet but lurk in the shadows, or run your keyboard,
time to pop a couple of viagras and see what happens

iu
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You probably caught it listening to MYMYMY MY CORONA lead playing.
 
TVvoodoo said:
Sorry I haven't been here to bump and taunt and cajole all y'alls into action. I've been seriously under the weather here for a couple days, kind of got socked in by some strangely powerful flu or whatever. Beginning to feel slightly human again.

All you fellas who haven't done nothin' yet but lurk in the shadows, or run your keyboard,
time to pop a couple of viagras and see what happens

iu
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Get well soon! I made myself a new pair of glasses yesterday…and I can actually *see* with them :cool: (y)…yep…
 
I wish I could remember what songs I first tried to play. My memory in the beginning of playing guitar is sort of vauge.

I do remember some Mel Bay books.
I feel like I had a very short stint in reading music. I gave both of those up early.

I also played a borrowed bass for some live show and had no clue.

I had a friend in highschool. Eric was the most rock involved person I know so memory only allows me to go to that time line or my subconscious suppressed the rest.

At any rate, he is the reason I started going to concerts. He had a blonde Fender precission bass. He was also who encouraged me to play guitar, he even showed me a couple of parts to some rock songs.
That and many people from school were trying to get bands together.

I knew another guy from my neighborhood who was playing drums in school band. He never looked the part but in a short time he could play full songs by Rush or any drummer note for note in perfect meter. The most amazing thing to see he was maybe 15 but it's all he had in life. Unfortunately life eventually eluded him and his dream at a young age.
We sort of had a 2 man band. Practiced relentlessly for a couple of years.
No real band.

At that point it was not long before work and life got in the way.
I can remember Eric and I going to my first concert at the Forum in L.A. Kiss, the hottest band in the land on the "Alive" tour.
At that point I think their songs would have been prime target before but there was a Redondo Beach connection from another drummer in school. These guys were real deal. Playing party's just like EVH did and around the same time.
They played UFO covers as 3 piece. Pretty convincing. Those guys were rock addicts. Back then they jumped on a plane and flew from LAX to San Diego to see Sabbath. The guitarist "Mike Rust"
met Michael Schenker and Schenker showed him how to play Rock Bottom. He had proof. Picture.

And those guys were friends with another band going by the name Airbourne. Not sure on the spelling but that's how I met Don Dokken and Bobby Blotzer.
All of this history some how leads back to the beginning.
 
TVvoodoo said:
Sorry I haven't been here to bump and taunt and cajole all y'alls into action. I've been seriously under the weather here for a couple days, kind of got socked in by some strangely powerful flu or whatever. Beginning to feel slightly human again.

All you fellas who haven't done nothin' yet but lurk in the shadows, or run your keyboard,
time to pop a couple of viagras and see what happens

iu
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