First Instro You Learned To Play Please

[nick_allen]

Probably Wildwood Flower, then Apache...

[lennon211]

It was either Misirlou or Pipeline.

[kenposurf]

It was either Misirlou or Pipeline.

Miserlou really opend a door but also slowed me down for a few years. I learned to play it like DD with the whole melody on the low and high E strings..my ear got used to trying to play everyting up and down the neck that way ..it became a habit I had to break.

[winston]

Apache by The Shadows was the first true instrumental that I learned. I have played lead guitar from the age of 14 on to today. Jeez now that I am thinking about this, I just realised that I am getting to be an old fart.

Oops can I say that on this forum?

[manta]

Yep, Pipleline or Wipe Out was mine too.

Also, a Local band called Rich Clayton and the Rumbles had a pipleine sounding song that was a big Omaha hit. Forgot the name but I learned that about '62 or '63.

T

[kenposurf]

Yep, Pipleline or Wipe Out was mine too.

Also, a Local band called Rich Clayton and the Rumbles had a pipleine sounding song that was a big Omaha hit. Forgot the name but I learned that about '62 or '63.

T

They're still together!

http://www.rumbles.com/Rumbles/history.html

[manta]

Yea, I know. Clayton was a really talented guitarist and he headed to California to find fortune and fame. Not sure what happened to him. But The Rumbles have survived like The Stones and The Who.

I recall Bud the bass guy being the last of the original members, I think. Although there may still be another one playing now.

They did a Hollies rendition of Bus Stop using a RIC bass and 360/12 that knocked your socks off back in the '60s. When I heard them play that, I started saving for a RIC.

Best,

T

[manta]

Thanks for that history. I see Steve's still there!

Best,

T

[yettoblaster]

Paladin, by Duane Eddy, got me playin' guitar.

But I think I got a one string version of the melody to Sentimental Journey down long before I could actually play the Ballad of Paladin.

[kenposurf]

Paladin, by Duane Eddy, got me playin' guitar.

But I think I got a one string version of the melody to Sentimental Journey down long before I could actually play the Ballad of Paladin.

Wow Ballad of Paladin..I had forgotten all about that song..hmmm..that was Duane huh? Gotta check that out...



So..who did the original on the TV shows w/vocals?

[yettoblaster]

Dunno about that one. Maybe some studio guy with Glenn-Glenn Sound?

Duane Eddy's version was my first 45 RPM record. I was about ten years old and had a Kay electric single pickup model (with the generous 3/4 inch string clearance).

I searched out an oldies Duane Eddy CD and had forgotten there were strings and French horns and stuff on that 45! I don't even remember hearing that stuff on the record, I was so focused on the guitar sound as a kid. This was about 1960.

I loved the TV show with Richard Boone too. I also listened to Gunsmoke, and some other Westerns, on AM Radio. They were already on TV too, but some radio stations had them in syndication.

I'm a nostagic geezer sometimes.

[kiramdear]

Wipe-Out, "Flying", from Magical Mystery Tour, Pipeline. "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed". That's too many, but I don't remember which I learned first. OK. Rolling Stones songs don't count either, but it took me forever to learn the words. To me, many were instrumentals for a long time

[admin]

The first instro for me was Walk Don't Run. I still love it today. It is a very simple melody. Why was it so successful on the charts?

[jimk]

The first instrumental I learned was either the Bert Jansch composition "Angie" or else J.D. Loudermilk's "Windy & Warm." Both were at one time must-learn tunes if you were a serious finger picker. I still play "Windy & Warm" occasionally.


JimK

[mgauction]

Kinda late here but what the hell........Surf Rider by The Lively Ones.