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I started out playing violin (my mom wanted me to be the next Jascha Heifetz). But in my neighborhood, if you were gonna walk around with a violin case, you'd better be able to take care of yourself. Guitar seemed like a safer bet.
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05-07-2017 12:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus
I have been asthmatic since infancy, as well, and always wondered what kind of sax or horn player I would be...LOL
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Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
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Thanks, guys. Appreciated. Although not an ideal upbringing, many, many people have it worse. I've had (and still have) a good marriage, and our daughter is now 20, and studying design in London. Happy to report my daughter is my best friend.
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Sitting in my apartment in Gyotoku, Tokyo listening to Eric Clapton play unplugged. I have always been into music and singing, especially. Growing up in the 60s and 70s was a golden age for us young ones.
Listening to Clapton play on his acoustic really got to me. I remember thinking, "I wish I could play guitar". At that point, I realised that I was 34 years old, with my own cash, no responsibilities to think of - I should go and buy a guitar. So after perusing the second hand ads in the Japan Times, I found an American guy selling a Fender acoustic. I didn't know anything about guitars or what a decent price/type of guitar I should get. This fella was the only one who spoke English so I bought what he had to sell!
The next morning, while in my futon, I reached for my new axe to try to work out the basic chord progression the seller of my guitar had given me - G Em C, D7 G and just kept trying to bang it out. After playing for a while, I looked up and saw that 4 hours had gone by! I had never focused on anything in my life for 4 hours! I knew I had found my 'thang'!
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I thought it would help me have greater success with females. Boy was I wrong about that.
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Originally Posted by FuseHead
Missed I something? :-)
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Most of my Dad's Brothers played guitar and or mandolin, so family get togethers were always filled with playing and singing. My Dad used to tell me that I walked around singing while strumming a tennis racket; so I guess at an early age I always knew I would play, long before I got my first guitar. That Family Heritage instilled so much in me that way; a gift I can never say "Thank You" enough for! Only my Oldest Son (out of four Kids), plays guitar, so passing that "gift" along for one person.
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Originally Posted by jazzyjackrabbit
Just for what it's worth, when I was about eleven or twelve, I saw Yehudi Menuhin playing with a symphony orchestra and thought, "I'd love to do that." and asked my parents about learning the violin. They told me one of Dad's co-workers was a violin teacher in her spare time, and I should approach her and ask her to teach me. Bad thing to suggest to a kid as reclusive as I was becoming. Took me till I was in my early twenties to learn violin. Never too late to give it a go, and while I'll never be another Yehudi Menuhin, I can at least have fun with it.
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