Going back

[Pt]

I was just reading some old posts from the archives of this group.
Some very interesting stuff from some interesting people.
They are all gone now.
I wonder why?

Pt

[gonjah]

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I donno. Maybe all the BS.

[Rufus]

...maybe they stopped considering themselves "beginners"?

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[wereoawl]

"Pt" <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I'm the most interesting person ever. Of awl time.

[Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke]

I killed them all in their sleep.

Either that or wereo killed them all while they were awake.


Lump

[gonjah]

SILENCE!!!

I KILL YOU!!!

[Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke]

gonjah wrote:

> SILENCE!!!
>
> I KILL YOU!!!

I am the only thing that matters in KEELING.


Lump

[Pt]

I can go way back to where I started learning to play a guitar.
Even before that when I played stand up bass and piano and even before
that when I sang in the choir.
As a kid taking music courses was mandatory in school.
I learned to read music as I learned to read words.
It was part of life.
By the time I was in high school I could read music fluently and I
played several instruments.
That doesn't mean I could play anything good unless I was reading.
But most kids I knew could play several instruments.
Again, it was part of life.
Most kids forgot about music as they moved on with their lives.
Somehow through the years most schools dropped the music courses and
if anyone wanted to learn music they had to take lessons from a music
teacher.
I took college music courses and continued to take lessons and
workshops through the years.
I am 70 years old and in time my music days will be over.
I'm still giving it my best shot for as long as I can.

Pt

[wereoawl]

"Pt" <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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Not too late to start learning "the only music that matters" Nuclear
Warrior.

I don't buy into this stuff about "playing music, reading music." I don't
care who you are or where you've been. The Allman Brothers Band will be
among the first to go >>>

[Rufus]

...I can go back to singing in church, and picking up a viola in the
third or fourth grade. I could *only* play the viola by sight reading.
I can remember being forced into piano and organ lessons as a kid and
hating them. I remember picking up a sax, breaking a finger in gym, and
being glad for the excuse to put the sax down. That was about 5th
grade...I didn't touch another instrument or even care to pay much
attention to music from then until I got to college.

In the fall of '77 I picked up a guitar for the first time...and taught
myself how to play it by just hanging out with other players, and by
copying records. I played constantly...some people's parents say they
can't recall a time I didn't have a guitar in my hands when they came to
visit. I noodled for about a year, then started sitting in with other
bands in the basement. Then I formed my own band and held it together
for about three years. I went out and watched a lot of live music and
hung out with a lot of working musicians. I never took a formal guitar
lesson, never re-learned how to read sheet music, and loved playing just
for the sake of it.

Then I graduated, got a job, and moved around the country. Playing
guitar turned into a full-fledged hobby...something I just throw money
at because I have it to do so. I've fallen out of love with most of the
music released today - I just plain don't hear the things in the music
of today that inspired me to pick up a guitar in the first place. My
health turned...playing has become a bit of a chore in that for the
first time people have started nagging at me to play on time that wasn't
of my own choosing, and/or on my own terms - which isn't why I play in
the first place. So I don't play much anymore other than under my own
roof, or in friend's living rooms. Which suits me just fine.

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