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19 Oct 01 - 10:56 PM (#576073) Subject: why did you want to play the guitar. From: 53 give a reason that made you want to play the guitar. |
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19 Oct 01 - 11:32 PM (#576082) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Gary T To have accompaniment to the songs I wanted to sing. |
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19 Oct 01 - 11:40 PM (#576086) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Little Hawk 1. To emulate my chosen heroes...Dylan, Baez & Buffy S-M. 2. To accompany my singing. - LH |
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20 Oct 01 - 12:10 AM (#576103) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Rory B I discovered that I could not sing and play the flute at the same time LOL. Actually it is only recently that I have started paying attention to my playing, trying to improve it a bit and not just as a simple accompanyment to my singing. I am humbled by the mudcat talent I must say...I heard some of you in pal the other day...wow!!! such talent! Huggs -Rory- |
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20 Oct 01 - 01:33 AM (#576135) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Mudlark I have loved the sound of the guitar for as long as I can remember. Just having one around makes me happy. My own playing is very functional, just good enough to accompany me on at least some of the songs I like to sing. Would love to be able to accompany myself singing 30's/40's standards but all those jazzy bar chords are beyond me....good thing I like folk music...lol. |
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20 Oct 01 - 01:37 AM (#576138) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: BluesMojo I started off as a harp player but started listening to Dylan and seeing as how I was such a great harp player (Looking back I was terrible at the time) I decided to learn guitar, too. I love playing with the harmonica, with that atrocious thing that looks like the favorite appliance of a sadistic dentist. |
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20 Oct 01 - 02:36 AM (#576147) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Oversoul I wanted to fly into outer space like John Fahey, party with Blind Blake, or petrify a moment. I'm violist now, but when I play the guitar all that stuff comes back. "Impressions of Susan"; "Chicken Don't Roost too High"; "Buck Dancer's Choice"...see? |
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20 Oct 01 - 02:36 AM (#576148) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: BlueJay I was tired of trying the school orchestra regimen, which I found to be grueling and unsatisfying. I was inspired more by the music of the times when I was in school, which was the folk wave of Dylan, PP&M, Tom Paxton, etc. I'm glad I learned the guitar, but I've always kind of wished I had kept up on the fiddle as well. If I had found some inspiration other than the "ruler to the fingers" method, I might be a fiddler as well as a guitar player today. I would have learned the guitar in any case. There's probably a lesson in there somewhere. Thanks, BlueJay |
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20 Oct 01 - 03:39 AM (#576164) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Roughyed I just fell in love with the thing. |
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20 Oct 01 - 03:46 AM (#576168) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Cappuccino 'Cos I can't sing to save my life... but years ago, I discovered that guitar could be equally satisfying in getting me on what turned out to be a very long, if largely undistinguished, playing career. I also discovered by the same logic that although I would never be a great lead player or fingerstyle player, I could become a half-decent bass-player, and that it could be equally great fun. I read that John Denver learned guitar so he could meet girls... - IanB
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20 Oct 01 - 05:35 AM (#576192) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: fat B****rd Being a mediocre singer I thought why not be a mediocre rythm guitar player. |
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20 Oct 01 - 07:34 AM (#576222) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Murray MacLeod To get chicks. And that is also the main motivation of most of the singer-songwriters I see these days. Especially the female ones. Murray |
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20 Oct 01 - 08:22 AM (#576232) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Because 30 years agi I heard Sandy Paton play it and I said, "I wanna do that, too!" |
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20 Oct 01 - 09:10 AM (#576237) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Cappuccino Very clever, Murray - although I expect you're going to get shot for that!!! - IanB |
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20 Oct 01 - 09:48 AM (#576249) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Jon Freeman A suggestion/ natural progression. I started with a toy ukele as a kid and my parents suggested that as I showed interest I might like to try a guitar. I agreed and was given one for my 11th or 12th birthday. While I have found the guitar fun and useful, I wish I had the awareness of other instruments at that time as well as other forms of folk music. Knowing what I know now and of course now having the knowledge of the type of music I mostly play, I'd have loved to have started playing mandolin or tenor banjo at that age. Jon |
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20 Oct 01 - 10:54 AM (#576266) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: GUEST,truckerdave Cause you can get free beer and women with one of those things. |
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20 Oct 01 - 11:33 AM (#576295) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: RocketMan I tried a couple instruments when I was young, guitar, trumpet and oboe. Later in life I picked up guitar for several reasons. I liked the sound, it accomodates a wide variety of styles and music, and I can carry it with me. I now play mostly dobro (resonator guitar). RMan |
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20 Oct 01 - 09:43 PM (#576569) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: GUEST,Steven G. I started playing the guitar because I really didn't like sports too much. I hated playing hockey as a kid, so my Mom got me into learning the guitar. And it was a good thing she done it, I never stopped playing for 18 years. And it is great to play at good kitchen parties as well, you certainly learn alot of songs, and good guitar picking tunes. Steven G. |
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21 Oct 01 - 09:48 PM (#577106) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Phil Cooper Even as a little kid, I saw myself playing a guitar. So,I saved my allowance (a whopping dollar a week) when I was 14 and bought a cheap Sears guitar. Never regretted a minute of it. |
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21 Oct 01 - 10:21 PM (#577123) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Mark Clark The truth? Cause forty some years ago it wasn't only music, it was a social statement, an identity and just a little bit dangerous. You didn't have to be a jock and you didn't have to be a hood and you could still be cool. Then I found out you could talk dirty in a song and girls would dig it. Then I found out you could tell the whole world to piss off in a song and people would like it! And to get chicks. Later I came to love traditional music and use it as a means of self expression. - Mark |
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21 Oct 01 - 10:27 PM (#577126) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Cap't Bob ....because I like the shape of the guitar. |
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21 Oct 01 - 10:30 PM (#577128) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: 53 that 's a good answer |
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22 Oct 01 - 05:30 AM (#577230) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Wilfried Schaum with the Boy Scouts. Someone had to take care of the singing, and I was the most talented. So I was ordered to accompany the troop, and the guitar is the best instrument for this purpose: fairly loud, and easy to transport. Later on I started plucking old Renaissance pieces. |
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22 Oct 01 - 07:31 AM (#577266) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: mooman To get callous! mooman |
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22 Oct 01 - 08:47 AM (#577293) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Gillie It was part of the school music cirriculum. The more I was taught the more I wanted to learn. Lucily I had a very good music teacher, Miss Watson - brilliant. Used to disappear up to my bedroom for hours to practice. My guitar was probably the best Christmas pressie my parents ever bought me! Been playing ever since. Gillie |
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22 Oct 01 - 09:42 AM (#577316) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: LR Mole Elvis, Buddy Holley, the Beatles, on Ed Sullivan's show: I just couldn't stop grinning. First music I ever felt directly in my heart.Plus, no one wants to watch other people write prose. |
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22 Oct 01 - 11:35 AM (#577370) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: 53 the beatles on ed sullivan was one of the highlites in me wanting to play the guitar. |
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22 Oct 01 - 06:27 PM (#577626) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Steve in Idaho It's what Cowboys play. Steve |
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23 Oct 01 - 08:32 AM (#577975) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Grab My dad plays. I learnt piano and violin, but it never quite clicked. And I could pick out a tune roughly on the guitar, but I couldn't really play, but it felt right. So I got a guitar as an Xmas present in my first year at uni. And when I started folk music, and took up the violin again, and we got our own piano, I found that what really hadn't clicked had been the way of teaching and working on "grades". Being forced to practice every day on music you don't really enjoy made it a chore; playing music you like every day bcos you want to is very different... Graham. |
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23 Oct 01 - 09:17 AM (#578005) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Irish sergeant Oh Hell, you would ask. I started later in life and no it wasn't to pick up chicks, at least not while I was on the USS Kennedy. Two reasons: I like the sound and I come from a family of musically inclined people. My father played Guitar, piano, banjo and violin. I have two brother ansd two sisters that play guitar, a sister that plays piano and the rest of us can carry a tune at least. An underlying factor is the fact that I love traditional music and I try not to limit myself to American or Celtic folk music. I have an interest in South American, Calypso, and Cajun music as well. Kindest regards, Neil |
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23 Oct 01 - 09:17 AM (#578006) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Willie-O well...honestly...girls girls girls! (I think). I was no good at sports. For a long time I was no good at guitar either. But it seemed cooler than piano. As to why I kept it up, truth is by the time I was good enough that girls-well, women, by then-- actually found my playing appealing, (maybe five years down the road) I didn't need a reason anymore. W-O |
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24 Oct 01 - 08:29 AM (#578630) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: Steveie1 When I was old enought to stand I used to pretend to play the banjo and other such instruments by picking up the frying pan. My first guitar was a christmas present I was still pre-school age and the guitar was plastic and cheap. My sister sat on it on Boxing day so it was back to the frying pan. I was later given this huge acoustic which was far to big for one so small. Un-dawnted I carried on and took lessons from age 9. The rest is history. I have no idea why I wanted to play but i am sure glad I did. The guitar is my best friend and my tranquilliser. |
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24 Oct 01 - 08:36 AM (#578633) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: GUEST,mandy I used to fancy a chap from my town who played brilliant in fact ***king brilliant(sorry Kris) guitar. I wanted to sound like him, I practised alot but not enough for my level of skill. I still play, but only for myself. I have since spoken to this chap - he teaches guitar as a living - he is gay...........what a waste to the gene pool! mandy |
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24 Oct 01 - 12:19 PM (#578786) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: GUEST,Singout For grandchildren! My son just got married and I'm thinking ahead. I want my grandkids to growup with music and learning some of the songs they won't learn at school, or hear on the radio! So whilst I'm temporarily unemployed, I'm making use of my spare time on a guitar that's been in my position for a couple of years now since my older son "hawked" it for $100. |
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25 Oct 01 - 10:21 AM (#579424) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: GUEST Sort of along these lines....
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25 Oct 01 - 01:00 PM (#579550) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: GUEST,Iamjohnne I wanted a guitar for Christmas so I could get this really neat guy to teach me to play. Also, it was back in the days of Hootenannies and I could get up in front of folks and play and try to sing. It was a way to meet the cute guys who played to meet us girls. Only I could have something in common with them not just sit googly eyed and listen. Johnne "goin where the weather suits my clothes" |
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25 Oct 01 - 07:26 PM (#579924) Subject: RE: why did you want to play the guitar. From: GUEST,MudWeasel Background in classical piano, but when I was 16 or so, I had quit lessons. I started playing guitar so I could play heavy metal tunes like Guns n Roses and Aerosmith. (Sad but true) We always had guitars around the house because my Dad and brother played... once my Dad got me started on 5 or 6 basic chords, I taught myself. Fifteen years later, I don't listen to much metal any more, but I play lots of Irish and Scottish trad-stuff and my dad's musical tastes have rubbed off on me, so Dylan, Cohen, and above all Phil Ochs are all on my play list and in my CD and vinyl collection. -MudWeasel |