How long have you been playing?

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

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




Gabriels mom is a fat whore

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.

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

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)

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?

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.

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.

Been playing for about 8 years .

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 :)

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

:D

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.

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

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.

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

Less than a year, still learning....

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!

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

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