When did you start playing guitar?

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Since this is about guitars, I started early 1998.

Drums, I started in 1989, stopped at the end of 1998, then started again in October 2006.

I was 20 when I started palying guitar.
 
I was 24 or 25, Im 44 now and I took 5 years off for no apparrent reason from 92ish to almost 97
 
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STEEL KAGE":530ad said:
I was 24 or 25, Im 44 now and I took 5 years off for no apparrent reason from 92ish to almost 97
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Interesting, I did the same thing from 92 to 98. I never "quit," but I just didn't pick it up.
 
I started playing piano in the 5th grade. I think I was about ten. Had to ride my bike super-geek style to piano lessons after school while my friends were playing ball....

Then, I convinced my folks that I wanted to play drums. Two things killed that. One, my parents would only buy me a "practce pad". As you know, this is no drum set. It got old fast. Two, and perhaps more importantly, my drum lessons were on Saturday morning and I hated missing the Superfreinds... The priorities of an 11 year old.

My parents insited I learn how to play an instument. Dance lessons too, but that's a whole other embarassing story.

When I was twelve, I convinced the folks that guitar was the instument for me. I got an early 13th birthday present of my first shitty guitar (a Conn. What a con.) and amp, I have no idea what it was. i astarted taking lessons shortly thereafter.

I am 37 now and I still suck after 24 years of garage bands.

At least I can afford nice gear now.

I assume I win for the longest answer to this question.
 
I was 19 or 20. Now I'm 35 and not nearly as good as 15 years experience would indicate.

I am truly gifted at buying gear though.
 
I blew my right knee out playing baseball when I was 16. I was in a cast from my balls to my ankle for the entire summer. I'd gotten an acoustic for Christmas a few years before but really didn't do anything with it until then. I spent the summer figuring out some simple chords and lines. It was great therapy and a good way to take my mind off of the fact that I wrecked my knee. I continued woodshedding and got an electric the next year. I've played off and on ever since (I'm 44).
 
started in '89, seriously in '92, but have had a few layoffs along the way.
 
Kinda sorta started at the age of 10 (1960) then got serious around 1967 when I bought my first Martin. I play blues, bluegrass, rock, and church music as that is my gig.
 
Bought a acoustic guitar for 20 bux when i was 16 after seeing my buddy play the song "signs" on a 12 string. I though it was the coolest thing i ever seen!
Took a few years off too learn bass and have been learning drums like crazy for the last while!
I'm 31 now. I would like to say that i have 15 yrs under my belt but i think that would be a lie considering the bass and drums thing! :D
 
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Kinda sorta started at the age of 10 (1960) then got serious around 1967 when I bought my first Martin. I play blues, bluegrass, rock, and church music as that is my gig.
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Very cool, Bill. When I was 17, my band had a gig with NBC television on the Saturday morning kids show *Take a Giant Step*. We were the HOUSE band. if you remember Sonny Fox (kid TV fame back in the 60s), his daughter was the host. We played two songs each show. Was a gas going into Manhattan every Friday afternoon after high school, being put up in a luxary hotel overnight, fed a great breakfast in the morning and taking a cab to NBC studios for the LIVE show.

Mike
 
PLayed bass in the 80s and bashed bad bar chords, stopped playing in the mid 90s and picked up guitar again around 2002.
 
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