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Permalink Reply by Sawbones on July 1, 2014 at 6:11am

I have to say influence and listening,there was always music playing at my house,Gramps had the country station going in the garage,my uncle was in the airforce in the early 70's,so he listened to Zep,CCR,CSNY,Willie,Waylon,Sabbath,Hendrix,Deep Purple,Cream all kinds of different cool stuff,Moms had Elvis and that stuff going on and I had my KISS and Cheap Trick albums.They bought me a little POS acoustic and a book,johnny comes marching home was the first song I taught myself at 7.

When I started lessons is when I consider I really "started playing".He tried to teach me theory and all the technical stuff,but I just wanted to rock.He said its your money,if you don't want to learn proper,I'll teach you covers.But like said,he was so far from the style of music I was in to,it didn't work.

Thanks for your responses

Rick I'm in Scottsdale AZ

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on July 17, 2014 at 12:52am

born in 1951,grow up hearing Joseph lock(my Mam and Dad fav's) but mostly rock & roll.

yes I'm the baby of the family,there was 7 of us but sadly there are only three of us left now but life goes on.

I've always loved music but due to having pneumonia when a baby this has effected my hearing.

for me to hear music clearly I have to wear hearing aids or in the ear phones.

being at a boarding school for the deaf I never got to learn any kind of music.

tried for years to learn but could not grasp it on my own and then about 7 years ago I thought I'll try bass hell it has only 4 strings surely I could try that ,again failed. the music teacher insisted that I learn theory and all I wanted to do was able to pluck a few strings and make music.gave my guitars to my son as he can play 6 strings etc. 

searching for some thing but I can't remember what but found on ebay cbg's eh guitar box??

so I did a few searching and getting info's.I felt so relieved that at last I should be able to play a 3 stringed cbg....

so I can play a little bit and will continue to learn and thanks to those guys on you tube I can plat a little short riffs.

but I think my best bet is to learn from Rick Mckeon on his webb page.

to me he comes a cross a very nice and pleasant man ,its a shame that there is to much water between us!

and a big thank you to the cbg nation forum and members. john

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Permalink Reply by Sawbones on July 17, 2014 at 5:15am

I thank you all for the replys!

Very diverse and interesting stories.

I've been slacking off on the guitar lately trying to play the Ddrums.

Did a few repairs on some of my CBG's and have a few playing really good.

I have several boxes that need built,I'm just more into the drums at the moment.But that's going to translate to my guitar/CBG playing.

Thanks again ya'll,keep this thread going!

BNZ'

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Permalink Reply by Richey Kay on July 17, 2014 at 6:59pm

Well... I guess the first music which really made me sit up and pay attention was Queen and ELO - which were often played at my parent's house. When I got my first paper round at 12, I used to go to town on pay day and buy myself 2 CDs, the first one I ever bought for myself was Blur's The Great Escape, in 1996. At around the age of 15 I has two epiphanies - one was Radiohead, who are probably still my favourite band, and the other was metal - specifically operatic power metal (Blind Guardian/Gamma Ray) :)

I got my first guitar at 15 (it was a Peavey Raptor 3), and had lessons for about 2 years after that - never bothered since. I joined my first band and played my first gig at 17, in a Manic Street Preachers cover band, which lasted for all of 2 shows before we kept the same lineup but started writing original material. We played quite a few shows around the live scene in Manchester over the next couple of years, but it was never really more than a bit of fun. 

During this time I was developing more of a taste for metal (this was around the time Nu-Metal was huge, but very uncool to like) - Pantera, Sepultura, Machine Head, Nine Inch Nails... I had a friend with whom we would compete to find the most obscure/heavy/crazy stuff we could, and this led to Death Metal, Prog Metal etc - Carcass, Meshuggah and Opeth are enduring favourites.

At around the age of 18 I discovered Devin Townsend - who I would say is my favourite artist, for those who don't know he's a Canadian guitarist/singer who started out singing for Steve Vai's Sex & Religion album. He makes everything from super heavy metal, to expansive prog, to ambient electronic music. He even made an album of metal inspired by show tunes :)

In my mid 20s, I started to mellow out a little and took more of an interest in folk music - this was accelerated when I caught a chance glimpse of The Transatlantic Sessions on TV (American and British/Irish folk musicians playing together) - I was captivated. I felt the urge to try a new instrument so I bought a 5 string open back banjo and taught myself how to play it, lots of fun and it got me back into playing after a few years of barely touching my guitar.

I had been aware of CBGs for a while, thanks to Seasick Steve, but had never really considered making one, having not done any woodwork since school. One day last year I saw an article on BoingBoing linking to a guide to making a cake pan ukulele. I had a look though and decided it looked a bit advanced, so I had a go at making a basic CBG instead - the first 3 were terrible, but nonetheless I was hooked. The rest, as they say, is history!

This has been an interesting thread to read, thanks for posting it!

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