Re: The Hardline According To... The Golden Boy- The Well Part XXII
i always thought it was lombardi on the right - shows what i know
did you ever read jerry kramer's book? ... if not, i highly recommend it
how'd you get started playin music .. tell us the timeline of your music career
t4d
I've read "Instant Replay." I haven't read any of the other ones. Instant Replay is awesome- just to get into the mind of someone there at the time and a part of it- right in the middle of it.
My parents were both into music. My dad still loves to sing, my mom used to play piano and organ. But they were not into the rock and roll thing. I remember being into disco- I loved the Village People- what 3rd grader could resist the Village People or KISS in 1977. My parents had me start piano lessons, and I didn't want to be doing that, I had a lot of trouble with the whole piano thing- to this day I really can't read music, and I'm lost on a keyboard- my mind doesn't work like that. Around that time I got my first rock and roll record- "Renegade" by the Styx. Boy were my folks pissed. My folks were also pissed when I got Get The Knack by the Knack, and made me take it back.
Somewhere around this time I developed this fascination with the Beatles- especially Paul McCartney. I have no idea why a 9/10 year old kid would be fascinated by McCartney in 1979/80- but I wanted to play bass guitar so I could be like Paul McCartney. I started taking lessons from the brother of the lady who was giving me piano lessons- he had a fake Hofner that he let me borrow. After that he let me borrow his fake Jazz bass. I only took a couple of lessons from him, but he let me hang on to instruments- I'm eternally grateful. He also gave me an old tape deck that I used as an amp- you'd plug into it and hit record and you could hear the bass. It was awesome.
I started playing guitar around 1983 or so- I remember that Billy Squier was big at the time. It wasn't all that much fun to want to be a bass player, but none of your friends or anyone your age was in a band, or even looking to start a band. So I started learning guitar chords so I could actually play songs and have people recognize them. I had a "Carlos" brand acoustic that I took EVERYWHERE with me.
I got my first bass, the ugly-ass EB-0, around 1985 or so with my lawnmowing money, and got my first electric guitar somewhere around that time- it was a Kalamazoo Strat style knockoff. That thing sucked. It came with a Kingston amp. A SS head on a 2x12 cab- and the head had reverb AND tremolo. It sucked. Around this time I got my first "real" guitar- a gift from my Dad- It was a Telecaster Custom. I was so proud of that guitar.
Somwhere in 1986 or so I got in my first "real" band. We were a punk rock band called NOD. We were awesome. We had a really nice sounding demo- for the time, and I'm glad I still have a copy of it.
I played in that band until I left for the Army.
Should I keep going?
