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#347840 - 07/26/12 09:00 AM
Re: What moved you to pick up an instrument?
[Re: sparky589]
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Registered: 01/02/04
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Loc: Lexington, Ky, USA
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My favorite uncle would sleep from 5:00 PM (after work) until about midnight; then get up, go to a little prehistoric "man cave" behind the house, make a pot of coffee and proceed to play guitar all night. I wanted him to teach me. I was 7 at the time. We lived in Michigan at the time and came back to Kentucky several times a year to visit.
He kept telling me I was too young, so I decided that I would somehow learn to play better than him and show him up on my next visit.
About 6 months later, I stomped into his little building, picked up the guitar and played the Chet Atkins tune, Trombone. Put the guitar down and walked out of the room.
By 11 I was playing Les Paul and Mary Ford tunes at an officers club in Fairbanks, Alaska. They were HARD to play. It was years after that I learned that he used the echoplex he invented and slowed the tape down during the recording. Then, on mixdown, he sped the tape up to correct speed/key.
That was 56 years ago, and I'm still "pickin and grinnin".
Thanks for the memories!
Russ
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