Just sharing some of my own history

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Sugarcane
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Just sharing some of my own history

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Back in '96 I saw an ad in a '95 Guitar World issue, it was a Dean Markley Blue Steel Strings ad, with a guy sort of waiting for a bus or a ride, with guitar case. The main color of the page was blue.

It was the nov '95 one, ACDC on the front cover.

The ad said

"Your father will curse
and your mother will weep ..
They keep wondering when you will grow up
and get your act together ..
But your dreams are not theirs ..
So string up and take it on the road ..
Becausein time
even parents will understand ..."

That ad actually made me dream of the day I'd be an electric guitar player myself (I was already a musician, but played classical guitar and was very frustrated. I fought a lot against family prejudice and general ballbreaking to become a gigging electric guitar player).

I lost that mag issue a couple of months later, and never found it again. Since then I had been looking all over the web for that Dean Markley ad, I even emailed Dean Markley and Guitar World but got no reply.

To my great joy, I just found an old issue for sale, and after 20 years + I saw it again.


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I've seen that advert as I used to collect those magazines!

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Thanks for sharing Sergio.

So did life imitate art - did your parents eventually understand?
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gellkeller wrote:Thanks for sharing Sergio.

So did life imitate art - did your parents eventually understand?

Not really, at least not fully. I became a lawyer and only then I picked up the electric guitar and fought my way into the local scene to become a professional musician.

They still think it’s a waste of time and money, and think of my band as a group of bums (an Engineer, a biology teacher, a lawyer and the owner of a very successful boutique tattoo studio).
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