[QUOTE=rhythm]yeah, but when did you start after you heard them at 4? And I bet you wanted to play Fender. My girlfriend's dad played guitar because of the Shadows and the aim of his life when he was younger was to play a Strat.
Actually.... and don't repeat this to anybody, but my next experience was the Partridge Family.
Seriously.. I was a Partridge Family fanatic and used to go to the local Woolworths store, pick up a yamaha 12 string they had there and a book of Partridge family tunes and take a pen and paper and write the chord charts down. They were the only songs I knew.
That xmas, my parents suprised the hell outa me by buying me that 12 strings as a present.
The thing I always like to remind people though is that the Partridge Family was actually made up of the best L.A. studio musicians at the time.
Tommy Tedesco, Hal Blaine etc...
So I like to think that I learned from some of the best.
I definitely learned how to put together a pop song.
Seriously, listen to any Partridge Family song and how well the music and harmonies are put together.