How long have you been playing?

[Leedogg]

Hey guys. Just interested in some demographical information on y'all. So yea, how long have you been actively playing the guitar? Be sure to vote!

[Leedogg]

I started 3 years ago on a random afternoon whilst drinking a case of coronas. I was just sitting around the house bored and remembered I had a guitar somewhere.

[Lordathestrings]

Daaayum! There's no checkbox for "More than thirty years"! :)

[moody_fa_loonie]

yeah i've been playing for round 3 yrs....it was by fluke my brother started out...gave up and passed it on to me which i picked up faster than him

[Leedogg]

Originally posted by Lordathestrings
Daaayum! There's no checkbox for "More than thirty years"! :)

Wow. I didn't even consider that. I figured most of us fell in the "under 10 years" category. :D

[finger_cruncher]

9 or 10

[Hammurabi]

4 or 5 and I'm not stopping anytime soon.

[kingdavid]

Originally posted by Lordathestrings
Daaayum! There's no checkbox for "More than thirty years"! :)
:green:
Where's the green smiley?

[Leedogg]

Originally posted by kingdavid
:green:
Where's the green smiley?

He died in the sight update. We got this guy now: :D

[guitarmanxxxx]

Im there with ya Lord, or at least close, 31 years here.
started when I was 17, do the math:D still feel 18 though
except when I get out of bed in the morning:D
Talk at ya all later, Mark

[iamthe_eggman]

I started off learning the drums. But when my brother learned how to play "Wipeout" on the drums first, I switched to guitar.

Oh no, wait a second... that was Eddie Van Halen.

[PRSplaya]

I had wanted to play the guitar since the age of 10 or so, but never got my hands on one untill I was like 14, and still haven't had any lessons:( but, aside from not being able to play lead, i think I've done pretty good for myself.

[chris mood]

24yrs :)

[Lordathestrings]

Originally posted by guitarmanxxxx
Im there with ya Lord, or at least close, 31 years here.
started when I was 17, do the math:D still feel 18 though
except when I get out of bed in the morning:D
Talk at ya all later, Mark I started playing other people's guitars in 1968. Back then, everybody played guitar, so whenever a bunch of us got together, we'd pass the guitars around. I bought my first guitar that fall, for my 16th birthday.

I kinda thought I'd be better at it by now. :)

[guitarmanxxxx]

Originally posted by Lordathestrings
I started playing other people's guitars in 1968. Back then, everybody played guitar, so whenever a bunch of us got together, we'd pass the guitars around. I bought my first guitar that fall, for my 16th birthday.

I kinda thought I'd be better at it by now. :)

Yep, thought I'd be better at it by now to, but good enough to get by. Main thing is were havin fun right ? We use to do that passing the guitar thing around to back when, it's amazing
we can all afford our own now:D :D Talk at ya later Lord.
Mark

[kingdavid]

Leedogg,we've had that dude all along.The big laugh,the one you use on one of your boys when he does something stupid(aside:you laugh like this at a girl,you'll get fried).
PRSPlaya,I've been playing "properly" for about 4 years now,and I also can't play lead,so I'd say I feel you on that,but otherwise,I'd say I'm not doing terribly badly,considering some girls I know are WOWED every time they hear me play along to a song on the radio or CD or something.Althogh I still feel like crap when you ask me about my playing.
And seeing what Lordatherings feels,I guess that feeling can't be helped.

[Lordathestrings]

Originally posted by kingdavid
... And seeing what Lordatherings feels,I guess that feeling can't be helped. It doesn't matter how long you play, or how good you get to be - there's always something you could do a little better.

[Barreta_jetstream1]

9 1/2 years.... wow thatx a long time...

[Leedogg]

From this survey we can conclude that we got a lot of ol' school vets on here. Most have played over 8 years. Then again this is only out of 23 votes lol.

[basics]

I've got over 10 years baby. It's a love hate relationship. Stupid guitar has got me in a lot of messes over the years and it's also pulled me out of them at the same time. If it weren't for the guitar I'd be NORMAL... or at least part of the beloved social 'system'.

[nsx_swami]

I have been playing for about three years now but since I don't have much time to play it's probably closer to one year or actual learning the guitar.
Oh well I make up for it by buying new guitars as often as possible (like whenever my wife turns her back and isn't looking). Right now I have 4 and am getting a hollow body electric soon. :D

[alkaline]

ive played for about 2 years and im in a cool band called handycap.




Gabriels mom is a fat whore

[Cryptic Excretions]

My history with becoming a musician is quite the biography for the amount of time I've been playing, but to spare you the details (not to mention prevent myself from feeling like I'm self absorbed) I'll just tell you years. Bass - 3 years, guitar - 2 years, keyboard - almost a year I guess, mandolin - bout a year to a year and a half. I need more instruments.

[iiholly]

I've been playing too long... guitar freaking sucks.

[hairbndrckr]

All I will say is I play many a club in the 80's... Some of you young pups were still crapping your diapers back then :). It was a time when women were women and men wore more makeup... Man I miss the old days (and my rouge)

[Leedogg]

Originally posted by hairbndrckr
All I will say is I play many a club in the 80's... Some of you young pups were still crapping your diapers back then :). It was a time when women were women and men wore more makeup... Man I miss the old days (and my rouge)

LMFAO!! Did you have huge 80's hair all teased out? You were into the whole glam rock scene?

[kingdavid]

Originally posted by hairbndrckr
...It was a time when women were women and men wore more makeup...
And the most dangerous sexually transmitted disease was herpes.
You guys were lucky alright.

[Leedogg]

Originally posted by kingdavid
And the most dangerous sexually transmitted disease was herpes.
You guys were lucky alright.

I'm pretty sure AIDS showed up in the early 80's, so it was around back then too.

[SLY]

Been playing for about 8 years .

[hairbndrckr]

Heehee yeah I had the long teased hair, the "I'm a starving musician and have been eating out of the McDonalds dumpster" figure also. Of course you couldn't tell by my fat a$$ now. I went from 150 to 255 pounds. I guess that's what happens when you starve for so long and then marry a woman that can cook. I still miss those days though, because unlike a lot of music today, there wasn't a lot of violence being written about. It was all about the party and having fun. I think even though some of it had it's sexual innuendo, it was a lot less for the kids to hear and see than what you can see in a Britney "Slut" Spears music vid nowadays. Matter of fact, my kid conned me into buying Bitchny Spears new CD for her. I told her before she could hear it, I had to give it an audition. A lot of that is just plain nasty. I don't want my kid to hear it, but... being open minded enough to let her make her own decisions about it, I gave her the CD. She said it sucked. I told her to promptly go to her room and listen to my hair metal collection and bang her head until she saw spots and got a stiff neck. My kid will be alright after all :)

[Lordathestrings]

Originally posted by hairbndrckr
... My kid will be alright after all :) :D

[Pantallica1]

Hopefully us musicians that listen to good music can instill that into our offspring, and they can then instill it in their friends, and hopefully there will be a resurgence of good music.


*Comes back from Neverland*

Ahh, if only it could happen.

[Leedogg]

Originally posted by hairbndrckr
Of course you couldn't tell by my fat a$$ now. I went from 150 to 255 pounds.

I'm no doctor, but it sounds like you suffer from Malmsteen Syndrome. :D

[kingdavid]

Originally posted by Leedogg
I'm pretty sure AIDS showed up in the early 80's, so it was around back then too.
IN which case then hairband is a young thug.
If you had to worry about aids in your day,you're young.

[hairbndrckr]

I don't suffer from Malmsteen syndrome... I got a chick who could actually STAND to be around me long enough to be a good cook :D

[R32_Nakazato]

Less than a year, still learning....

[kingdavid]

Originally posted by hairbndrckr
...I got a chick who could actually STAND to be around me long enough to be a good cook :D
Healthy stuff!

[Benoit]

Been playing 13 years myself. Still can't beleive it's been that long.

[GilbyDeviant]

I first started playing 17 years ago, but I was seven at the time and didn't really start taking it too seriously and started improving on my skills until I was around 10-12, so I sort of think of those first few years as a bit of a waste.

-GILBY D