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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/04 20:48:06
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My first was also a "Sunburst" Les Paul copy (a Hondo that I bought off of Craig Goldy back in the mid-70's) soon to be replaced with a real Les Paul Standard (also bought from Craig). The neck on the Hondo wasn't that great and it was impossible to hit the E on the 12th fret of the highest string - lol!
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/04 20:48:26
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Les Paul really weren't popular back then - especially not for a kid who wanted to play metal, especially not a sunburst.
There was this one older kid I really looked up to, he'd started playing a bit before my friends and I and he was really talented - plus he already had long hair. lol
We used to go over to his place to borrow tapes, watch video or listen to him play and try to pick up tips. I remember that one time, we were watching Iron Maiden live - must have been Live After Death.
Adrian Smith took out his goldtop LP and that kid started bashing LP, how stupid they looked, how retro, how uncool and how could Smith play that awful thing when he had beautiful Lado's.
He knew that I played a LP, and I thought he was pretty mean. He could be such a prick at times. Then 5 minutes later, he'd lend you his Boss distortion for a few days.
I recently found him on Facebook - his main guitar is a vintage sunburst Gibson LP. He has it on all his recent pics.
Funny...
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/04 20:54:03
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Rain
Les Paul really weren't popular back then - especially not for a kid who wanted to play metal, especially not a sunburst.
There was this one older kid I really looked up to, he'd started playing a bit before my friends and I and he was really talented - plus he already had long hair. lol
We used to go over to his place to borrow tapes, watch video or listen to him play and try to pick up tips. I remember that one time, we were watching Iron Maiden live - must have been Live After Death.
Adrian Smith took out his goldtop LP and that kid started bashing LP, how stupid they looked, how retro, how uncool and how could Smith play that awful thing when he had beautiful Lado's.
He knew that I played a LP, and I thought he was pretty mean. He could be such a prick at times. Then 5 minutes later, he'd lend you his Boss distortion for a few days.
I recently found him on Facebook - his main guitar is a vintage sunburst Gibson LP. He has it on all his recent pics.
Funny...
And I'm guessing his hair is shorter now too.... 
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/04 20:56:27
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Steve, Rain Nice trip down memory lane. Dapper young rockers! 
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/04 21:01:05
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Shorter and grayer... ;)
He's not doing bad actually. He went on to study classical music, got his degree and everything and he is now the classical guitar teacher at the very same music school where I used to study. I've also found that he is friends with many of my friends on the pro circuit, so I guess he played a couple of interesting gigs...
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/04 21:17:07
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Cool. What was the music school you both went to?
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/04 21:47:48
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Just a local music school in a little 12 000 folks town east of Canada, though that friend went on to study in the city.
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/05 06:14:30
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Rain
Cool pic! Love the cable - I still have one of those somewhere around. :)
I started on a über cheap sunburst LP copy - I'm guessing that this very bad picture dates for early 1985, when I was 12.
I've worn the heck out of that Run to the Hills shirt. :P
He he - that's excellent! And, unlike me, you don't look like you've been drinking 
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/05 06:16:27
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I was 12 - I could only go out and drink on fridays/saturdays. ;)
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/05 06:19:01
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LOL I was just trying to look indifferent to my otherwise obvious rock god status
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/05 06:47:18
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You know, I don't have many pics from the past - I've always hated having pictures taken - but I seem to be playing guitar in almost every pic... The only pic I have of me as a kid:  The only other teenager pic, besides the one posted earlier and the one w/ a bottle of Jack Daniels posted a few weeks ago:  Young Adult - the only offstage pic I have:  More recently, in NY:  I love guitars I guess...
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/05 07:17:28
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SF_Green
Steve Howe never did one of the "Everything he has" photos that I've been able to find. But this is out on my coffee table:
He needed an entire book just for his guitars/stringed instruments!! His collection is amazing.
Don't go letting any one spill coffee on it. I just checked Amazon in the UK - second hand copies going for 115 UK pounds.
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/05 08:07:58
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Glyn Barnes
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Steve Howe never did one of the "Everything he has" photos that I've been able to find. But this is out on my coffee table:
He needed an entire book just for his guitars/stringed instruments!! His collection is amazing.
Don't go letting any one spill coffee on it. I just checked Amazon in the UK - second hand copies going for 115 UK pounds.
Damn! I made out then. I got mine about 3 years ago for about $70 if I remember correctly. That's less than half, right?
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Re:Ever since I was a kid...
2013/05/05 08:25:54
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Back when Scott Chinery commissioned the Blue Guitar collection I thought it was so cool to have a common theme that spans a selection of makers and ideas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uadXz7Nsmqk Somewhere along the line I got interested in putting together a collection of the usual suspect "player" guitars that are all blonde, clear, or TV yellow. The *collection* seems more like a collection than a *pile* because of the shared color theme. I enjoy having a variety that represents the *history of electric guitar tones* available for people to grab and make music with. best regards, mike
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