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Sailor Charon

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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2008, 01:36:25 PM »
Didn't start till I was about 22... :(
And then lent my guitar to someone for over 12 years... :(

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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2008, 02:27:41 PM »
better than i can play now!!
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2008, 03:29:19 PM »
  I'll never be technically as good as him, but being a technician, is not the same as being a musician !

 I hope this kid can develop the same level of musicality as he matures, to match with his undoubted technical ability.

Personally, I didn't even play until I was 18.
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2008, 04:21:17 PM »
I started when I was 11. Back then I actually played songs. Don't know what went wrong.
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2008, 05:06:22 PM »
Quote from: ilyti on July 30, 2008, 04:21:17 PM
I started when I was 11. Back then I actually played songs. Don't know what went wrong.

+1 :lol:

Also good to hear this guy wants a proper amp, none of that high gain bollocks :P
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2008, 05:58:05 PM »
Whilst on the subject of young guitar vituosos, here's a 12 year old Derek Trucks playing professionally. I believe he started occassionally 'sitting in' with the Allman Brothers Band at this time! ( Sheesh the SG looks even bigger on him than Angus  :lol:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXPHMOJLwGQ&feature=related

and a 12 year old Joe Bonamassa with Danny Gatton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLB900atJFs&feature=related

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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #21 on: July 30, 2008, 06:20:40 PM »
Well he is impressive at 13. I started at 15 and I don't play like he does now.It isn't in my mindset to play like that but the boy clearly has a gift and full credit to him for getting up off his ar*e and doing something for himself. He reminds me of my son at that age who worked his nuts off to buy a decent piano as I was unable to afford it and ended up as a superb musician. I hope the boy gets his Marshall. If I were his father I'd be right proud.
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #22 on: July 30, 2008, 06:53:00 PM »
I started when I was 13 (and gave up when I was 18) and I it was a damn sight easier back then - all you had to play was Back in Black, Substitute and New Rose and you were a guitar god.  Now that wouldn't get you into the back room of a guitar shop without some 11 old Yngwie alike laughing at you. 
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2008, 07:09:30 PM »
Woof!! I've seen it now - much respect to him (and I withdraw my earlier "13-year-old with a PRS?!" seeing as he bought it himself!)

Seems like a nice chap as well, hope it all works out for him :D
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #24 on: July 30, 2008, 07:58:29 PM »
Cracking stuff.

I'm sure that there are many of us here who can remember this the first time around:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0onO16gmc

... I certainly do.  Amazing talent for people so young.

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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #25 on: July 30, 2008, 08:52:05 PM »
I think I had a guitar at 11. I can't remember, but I barely ever played until I was 18 because I was too busy listening to techno and hip hop. Then I heard Led Zep's Achilles Last Stand and wanted to learn it; it totally kicked my ass, so then and only then did I really start practicing.
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #26 on: July 30, 2008, 08:57:51 PM »
He is good isn't he! Did you notice his eyes eyeing up the coins everytime there was a chink of money in the case!  :lol:

Well all I could play at that age was the James Bond theme tune on an old acoustic with 4 strings hacking away with a victorian penny used as a plectrum  :?
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #27 on: July 30, 2008, 09:54:28 PM »
OK, I watched it, and he's terrific  :).  But you know what I'm going to say, I'd rather hear him with a band behind him playing some proper songs.

Hope the local chavs don't take it into their tiny brains to rob the lad, now that the BBC have thoughtfully broadcast how much his PRS cost. :roll:
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #28 on: July 31, 2008, 04:11:39 PM »
If not the chavs then certainly the taxman
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Re: How well could you play when you were 13?
« Reply #29 on: July 31, 2008, 05:08:37 PM »
At 13 I could play better than Ritchie Blackmore...

He couldn't play "Smoke on the Water" till he was 27!  :lol:
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