Any "older" newbies here?

Darrell Prichard · Post by **Darrell Prichard** » 31 Jul 2006 8:24 am

First, thanks to everyone who responded to my question about playing and gigging (http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/012709.html)

A follow-up question to that is, how many of you started steeling at a later age - say, 40 years old or older? (I'm just using 40 as a baseline - at 46, I don't consider "40" old.)

Walter Killam · Post by **Walter Killam** » 31 Jul 2006 9:25 am

Depending on how you reckon such things . . . I had a student steel which I noodled around on for several years, but I didn't get serious about it til about 6 months ago. I'm 45, & consider myself to be a newbie!

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Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 31 Jul 2006 9:36 am

I don't call you guys 'older.' 58 is 'older.' There are older newbies than me.

Dan Haas · Post by **Dan Haas** » 31 Jul 2006 9:38 am

I took lessons when I was about 15. I started getting serious about 6 months ago and played out for the first time last night. At 42 I consider myself a newbie. I have a long way to go.

[This message was edited by Dan Haas on 31 July 2006 at 10:39 AM.]

Jimmie Martin · Post by **Jimmie Martin** » 31 Jul 2006 2:53 pm

i'm 58 and have been tinkering around steel for 2 years. guess that makes me oldie but newbie.

Dale Lee · Post by **Dale Lee** » 31 Jul 2006 3:34 pm

I'm 62 on 7/14/06. I feel pretty good. Started steel on a 8 string fender lap steel (on legs) about 3 months ago. I like it.

Delvin Morgan · Post by **Delvin Morgan** » 31 Jul 2006 4:08 pm

I have been studying the pedal steel (you notice I didn't say playing) for a little over a year and I am 59

Lindy Griffith · Post by **Lindy Griffith** » 31 Jul 2006 4:27 pm

Started 3 months ago at 50, but then a lady never really tells her true age.[This message was edited by Lindy Griffith on 31 July 2006 at 05:28 PM.][This message was edited by Lindy Griffith on 31 July 2006 at 05:28 PM.]

Jerry L Miller · Post by **Jerry L Miller** » 31 Jul 2006 4:55 pm

at 64 and one half playing in and out would i be a newbe, oldie, or a olde newbe or nether one?

jerry

Billy Gilbert · Post by **Billy Gilbert** » 31 Jul 2006 4:57 pm

I started seriously on lap steel two years ago at 74.

Billy

50s Fender Dual Pro

Tom Diemer · Post by **Tom Diemer** » 31 Jul 2006 5:22 pm

I started playing pedal steel in 2000, I'm 52 now. Wish I'd started sooner, but better late than never.

John Coffman · Post by **John Coffman** » 31 Jul 2006 6:28 pm

Started 2004 at age 41. Just starting to really feel as if I can find a chord or two.

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Andy Jones · Post by **Andy Jones** » 31 Jul 2006 6:45 pm

I've been playing about a year.I'm 54 now and wished I had started sooner.I'll learn sooner or later because I haven't found anything that I can't do,if I really want to.
Andy

Jim Sliff · Post by **Jim Sliff** » 31 Jul 2006 7:36 pm

I started for a very short time in my 40's...basically a few months with an awful guitar.

Started again at 53, initally with ANOTHER awful guitar, then shifted gears to an old Fender and that was it and a bag o' chips.

Wil Limanen · Post by **Wil Limanen** » 1 Aug 2006 9:20 am

Bought my first pedal steel at 54 and I am still confused at 56.(Pretty sure it's the guitar causing the confusion) Wouldn't give it up though!

Wil

David Ziegler · Post by **David Ziegler** » 1 Aug 2006 11:37 am

I have been playing just over a year and a half and I am almost 55. I wish I had started earlier in life but I don't know that I would have been as committed or enjoyed it as much as I do now.

Bob Belcher · Post by **Bob Belcher** » 1 Aug 2006 12:52 pm

Here I am...played around with one years ago while doing cover song band stuff. Got serious at about 40 something...lost them all and restarted this year at 51.

Klaus Caprani · Post by **Klaus Caprani** » 1 Aug 2006 1:00 pm

I'm 45 and started roughly 3 years ago. I consider myself a newbie alright

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Don Walworth · Post by **Don Walworth** » 1 Aug 2006 1:07 pm

72 --- guitar purchased this year.

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Don

West Coast Double 8 Nashville 112

Sidney Ralph Penton · Post by **Sidney Ralph Penton** » 1 Aug 2006 1:52 pm

i started out on a carter starter two years ago last march. then went to a carter U12 too many strings then i went back to a 10 string now i have the best. but still learning how its done. thanks doc.

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Sidney Ralph Penton · Post by **Sidney Ralph Penton** » 1 Aug 2006 1:55 pm

see there it goes showing my age and forgetting to tell how old i am well i am still in my prime.

59 be 60 in jan 07

Dave Baldwin · Post by **Dave Baldwin** » 1 Aug 2006 2:18 pm

im a newbe at 63 just started with a new carter starter and a little pevey 158 rage and a tascam gt 2 guitar trainer and love it

Mel Taylor · Post by **Mel Taylor** » 1 Aug 2006 7:48 pm

I took lessons for a few years back in the 1950's. I think I was about 13 years old when I started. I quit playing for over 44 years and I just started back about 5 or 6 month's ago and I am 64 years old.
Mel Taylor

James Morehead · Post by **James Morehead** » 4 Aug 2006 4:44 pm

I've been a student of the steel for 3 1/2 years now. I'm 51 1/2, so I guess I'm gettin' "long in the tooth", too. I have never had something I enjoyed so much---just wish I'd started 35 years ago.[This message was edited by James Morehead on 04 August 2006 at 05:45 PM.]

Twayn Williams · Post by **Twayn Williams** » 4 Aug 2006 6:13 pm

I've played 6-string seriously since I was 17, lap steel since I was 39, and now pedal steel at 43.