Reading Steve T's remarks on another thread got my mental wheels turning backwards. I flashed back on the first time I ever heard someone play guitar. It was seventh grade. My classmates and I were sitting in the gym bleachers waiting for the bell to ring. Some guy came in with a guitar and a couple of other upperclassmen. He sat down on a folding chair then played and sang Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day". I was a goner! I had never before seen a real person both sing and accompany himself at the same time! What a concept! It opened my eyes to a whole 'nother world. Not very long afterwards the Kingston Trio released "Tom Dooley". My thirteenth birthday soon followed and I got what I had heavily hinted for: a guitar, the K.T.'s In Concert album, and my first guitar lesson. The rest is history.

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