iblive
Well-Known Member
Humor me gang... this may sound like an old song - different verse, but I was reading an article the other day in "Guitar Legends" and it happened to be about Neil Young and his pals Crosby, Stills and Nash. It got me thinking on what was my "defining moment" when I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I would play guitar.
Most times when this question gets asked we usually think of what were the influences that contributed to us playing guitar and what style we chose.
I grew up listening to 50/60 tunes my parents played. Elvis, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton.... etc, to this day I can still sing every word to "Battle of New Orleans." I sat with my parents and watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. I played trombone from 6th grade till HS graduation in concert band, marching band and a Dixie Land jazz band. So of course one of my early favorite groups was Chicago.... the original Ska Band. :) Like most of the "old geezers" on this forum I got pretty wound up in the British invasion... Stones, The Who, Hollies, etc.
But for me it was in 1970 when I plugged in my "Woodstock" 8-track. Hendrix.... Jefferson Airplane.... Joan Biez..... then CSN and yes Y stepped up to the mike and started playing...... ACOUSTIC guitars of all things. That was my moment. It took me three years, but I finally bought me a guitar (Yamaha acoustic 12 string) and the journey began.
The sound isn't so great, but this is the song that did it to me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quTYl9WBo_M&playnext=1&list=PLD645071D8A3D9A11[/youtube]
Most times when this question gets asked we usually think of what were the influences that contributed to us playing guitar and what style we chose.
I grew up listening to 50/60 tunes my parents played. Elvis, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton.... etc, to this day I can still sing every word to "Battle of New Orleans." I sat with my parents and watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. I played trombone from 6th grade till HS graduation in concert band, marching band and a Dixie Land jazz band. So of course one of my early favorite groups was Chicago.... the original Ska Band. :) Like most of the "old geezers" on this forum I got pretty wound up in the British invasion... Stones, The Who, Hollies, etc.
But for me it was in 1970 when I plugged in my "Woodstock" 8-track. Hendrix.... Jefferson Airplane.... Joan Biez..... then CSN and yes Y stepped up to the mike and started playing...... ACOUSTIC guitars of all things. That was my moment. It took me three years, but I finally bought me a guitar (Yamaha acoustic 12 string) and the journey began.
The sound isn't so great, but this is the song that did it to me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quTYl9WBo_M&playnext=1&list=PLD645071D8A3D9A11[/youtube]