Members Buttcrust Posted December 14, 2014 Members Share Posted December 14, 2014 Girls started playing guitars to impress me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phaeton Posted December 14, 2014 Members Share Posted December 14, 2014 I had bedded over 600 women by time I was 9 and built six helecopters using only hand tools and wood. And that was BEFORE I even started playing guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surrealistic Posted December 14, 2014 Members Share Posted December 14, 2014 ... and built six helecopters using only hand tools and wood... You needed tools? Lightweight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted December 14, 2014 Members Share Posted December 14, 2014 . . . On a more serious note' date=' I seem to remember thinking more along the lines of "playing guitar is cool" than "playing guitar will get me girls". . . .[/quote'] That was me. Guys who played guitar were popular and I wasn't. Mom taught me to play the ukulele but that wasn't particularly popular either so I started playing guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Grant Harding Posted December 14, 2014 Members Share Posted December 14, 2014 I was just a kid, but from memory I was trying to impress my big brother who was already in bands when I was born. The impressing the girls thing was just an awesome bonus that I didn't appreciate until my teens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gardo Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 I started out on banjo ,talk about not cool. Changing to guitar changed my social life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members realtree71 Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 Nope but it turned out being a nice byproduct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phaeton Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 To be serious, I had been playing tapes of Satriani's "Surfing with The Alien", some early Black Sabbath mix, Ted Nugent's "Weekend Warriors", and Anthrax's "Among The Living" all through the summer of 1987 (while beating the original Legend of Zelda), if I remember correctly. I turned 13 during that summer and for whatever reason the electric guitar really spoke to me then. I can remember a specific time when listening to to Satriani's "Midnight" and "Hill of the Skull" and thinking it was the neatest thing ever, and then later another where I was listening to the aforementioned Anthrax album and marveling over the sound of metal palm mutes. I recall saying out loud: "I need to learn how to play the guitar because I need to know what that 'shunk shunk shunk' sound is". That is what sealed the deal. It just so happened that one of my best friends' mom started dating this guy that was a guitar dude, and he was pretty good. Kind of an a-hole, but great on the guitar in the SRV/Clapton/Hendrix/Eric Johnson vein. So my friend started learning from his mom's bf (now his stepdad) and I figured I should do the same to keep up with the joneses. I bought a 17-fret Norma (a rebranded '60s Teisco) from my sister's friend. It had one gold foil pickup in the worst possible spot, action that was 5 feet off the neck and the volume/tone knobs were broken off. I painted "NOT" onto the fretboard above the 12th fret to match the Jackson V that Scott Ian of Anthrax had, and the rest is history. Did girls factor into any of this? No. Not at all. But once I hit High School it became very apparent that the guitar could get me laid, and I was damn sure to exploit the eff out of that when I could. Oh, and I never considered getting a 'better' guitar than the Norma until I started learning Satriani's "Always With Me, Always With You" and ran out of frets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeepEnd Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 Yeah, it didn't help that I liked Country music when everyone else liked Rock. Fortunately, I started playing Christian stuff and those were the people I was able to impress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 I started playing because I like music. Never thought about it as means to get girls. Perhaps I have Aspergers... I wouldn't particularly want a girl who picks a guy depending on how well he plays guitar. I'd like her to have more sensible criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t_e_l_e Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 i started cause my mountain bike got stolen and i could not afford a new one. my best friend at the time started playing and i thought it was cool. so i pegged my parents to get a guitar as replacement of my bike. i got the cheapest guitar available (less than $100 hmm in 1991 or so) for christmas and i learned from my friend what he learned from his brothers friend... girls would have been a factor but it never worked, when i played all the girls around started kissing the other guys, when i stopped playing the girls screamed "plz don't stop its sooo romantic", but never was a girl left for the guitar player yeah a real real sad story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wankdeplank Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 Nah, my mom actually won a guitar (Teisco Strat copy) in a music store giveaway before I'd even reached puberty (late 60's). Then my parents tracked down an amp (Princeton Reverb), must've been a good deal or my parents wouldn't have gotten it. It was actually a nice little rig, but to me it was just another thing to play around with. A few years later we moved to West Nyack New York (from SLC Ut) and I made some new friends. Sleeping out in the back yard one night and we decided to start a band. We settled on the name Spartans. Our first practice at the drummers house revealed that I was the only one that had a clue how to play. The drummer's dad was encouraging us, but a practice or two later and we were back to bike patrol, pestering the neighborhood girls, playing ball and roaming the woods. A year later my family moved to Emerson NJ, a new set of friends that played hoops and I had a new obsession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billybilly Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 I learned because I liked it, always did, both acoustic and electric. I did though, learn the power of the guitar quickly... I just began seeing this girl a couple of years after I was getting good on my acoustic, singing and playing. She was a bit of a cold girl with real nice sweater puppies... Anyway, I played and sang her a song, facetiously, and she started crying and dragged me to the bedroom. I got my brown wings that day, lesson learned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members papaschtroumpf Posted December 15, 2014 Members Share Posted December 15, 2014 I didn't, for ome thing i started playing Classical and that definitely wasn't a chick magnet. Yet after 20 years of marriage, my wife told me that I got her attention because I could play Nothing Else Matters on my classical guitar in the dorms, and I didn't even know know who she was at the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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