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John Walden
From:
Simi Valley, California, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 3:48 pm |
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When did you realize you were born to play music ? Show us a photo. For me, it was back in 1968. My first working band. And I still take it seriously !
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Don Discher
From:
Sault Ste Marie,Ontario,Canada
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 5:10 pm First Band
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I did play in another group for a short time but just did private parties.I started this band in 1975.
Second pic is how the band is today.
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John Walden
From:
Simi Valley, California, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 5:25 pm
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Now you see, back then it was respectful for all members, not only to look alike, but to wear ties, or all the same shirts. To dress up. Do bands still do this ? When did you know you were bitten by the entertainment bug ?
Cool pic. Don.
J. W.
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Emmons SD-12 PP
Sho-Bud LDG
Fender Twin w/ JBL's
Mesa Boogie Mark IV x 2
Peavey 112 w/Knob-Guards x 2
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 6:15 pm
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Not my first band, but one about 10 years into my steel guitar career.
1983. Tennessee Performing Arts Center |
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Don Walters
From:
Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 7:42 pm
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Summer '58
a few months later. Note the "upgrade" to PSG
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Bob Simons
From:
Kansas City, Mo, USA
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Posted 30 Jul 2008 8:30 pm
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Jon Jaffe
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 8:38 am
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Not the first, but the oldest I can find with steel. 1976, Buffalo, NY.
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George McLellan
From:
Duluth, MN USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 9:22 am
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1960/1962, the days when the whole band and all the equipment fit in one car.
Geo
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 11:24 am
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The Hilltop Ramblers circa 1962. That's me next to the drummer.
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 1:01 pm
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 2:30 pm
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My first band, 1959 at Keesler AFB, Biloxi Miss. We were all instructors at Keesler.
I'm on the left with the Gretsch guitar.
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John Walden
From:
Simi Valley, California, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 4:57 pm
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Thanks Everyone ! I love these older pics. I think that there is something very special about folks that play music. Great players, and the not so great players. The bug bites all, equally.
J. W.
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Rains SD-10
Emmons SD-12 PP
Sho-Bud LDG
Fender Twin w/ JBL's
Mesa Boogie Mark IV x 2
Peavey 112 w/Knob-Guards x 2
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Roual Ranes
From:
Atlanta, Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Jul 2008 5:24 pm
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Don Sulesky
From:
Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 3:38 am
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My first band 1959 "The Galaxies".
Wish I still owned that 1958 Strat I'm holding.
Notice the Fabian sweaters that were popular at the time.
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 3:56 am
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those late 50's and early 60's pics are great.
most of you look like punks looking for trouble.
well, that 's what the older generation was a sayin". |
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basilh
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 5:35 am
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Benton Allen
From:
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 8:41 am
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Hey Bas!
Are you related to the skinny guy sitting at the steel?  |
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 10:38 am
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First band ! What a bunch of knuckleheads.
That's me on the far left, and the only guy in the band who could play a bar chord.  |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 12:11 pm 60 Years Ago
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1948, American Legion Hall, Cordell, OK (I was only 16 and not legal to be there, but don't tell anyone)
1955, Another old band.
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Tim Fleming
From:
Pasadena, CA. The other Rose City (deceased)
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 12:34 pm
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Not the first, but the oldest I could find -
1970 at The Difference Club in West Covina, CA.
That's me with the cool Hofner bass and the constipated expression.
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 1 Aug 2008 3:44 pm
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At first I thought better of it, but then everyone needs a good laugh. Early 1973, we were the opener for Bill Anderson.
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Frederic Mabrut
From:
Olloix, France
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Jerry Hayes
From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 2 Aug 2008 4:37 am
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Here's a couple of shots of of old bands. The first is the the "Gaushaus Ramblers" taken at the NCO Club at Wiley Barracks in Neu Ulm, Germany sometime in 1959. I'm the skinny kid with the big old blond archtop. I can't remember what brand it was, but it was a German guitar.
The second shot was taken at the Swizzle Stik in Huntington Beach, California somtime in 1977. I'm on Telecaster, fellow Forumite Stephan Silver is on pedal steel, Vern Costner on Bass, Monte Paul on drums, and the lovely JoAnne Rinard on vocals....JH in Va.
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Roy Thomson
From:
Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 2 Aug 2008 6:35 am
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This was my first group called "The
sunset Boys" and pic was taken around
55/56 in Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
My Lap Steel and amp(on the right) was
a Christmas gift from my parents bought
out of Sears Catalogue. I think it was
a Harmony or Silvertone 
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Harry Dietrich
From:
Robesonia, Pennsylvania, USA, R.I.P.
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