I realize that this may cost some people to revisit their thearpist, but I know that we are all slightly twisted in some way. I want to see who played a musical instrument in high school/ college/ garage band and what instrument they played! Confession: I started out playing the trumpet in Jr. High, but move to tuba when my braces would not let me pucker! Yes, I was a sight for the marching band, 6' 5", 180 lbs, with a tuba on my shoulder! :shock: Okay, who is next?
I took piano lessons from 4th grade until 8th grade, when high school basketball got in the way, but currently dabble in the realm of guitar...looking to get into a banjo or mandalin, or maybe even a dobro... ----------------------- Hillbilly Racing Team Tired of AutoZone's *limited* selection? Then try the Pottery Barn!
i am ironman!!! i took up the drums first period in high skool.teach was allways helping the wind & string instruments so i spent first period 4 days a week in the woods gettin stoned.what a way to go thru school,kinda fun actually p hey it was the 70's,gimme a break uzzled:
Started out playing trumpet (still have it somewhere), went to a tuba in jr. high. Quit when I got in high school. I would REALLY like to pick up the banjo. I've always loved the sound of them thar thangs ..... And NO ! ..... I never played the skin flute ........... :laugh:
I used to play the swinette..........That's where you stretch a string across a pigs a$$ and pick it with your teeth....... uzzled: :TU: :laugh: Wayne
I play a Banjo. I really do, I have for over 25 years. I have a vintage "Bacon Proffesional" that is from the early 30's and is a fine looking instument with nice mother of pearl inlays on the fingerboard and burly grained wood on the back of the resonator with a cool old painting on it. I updated to geared pegs wth 2 "Scruggs Tuners" I like the banjo sound, especially bluegrass. I think that the precise and intricate timing conditions the brain and the body in a way that helps reaction times at the dragstrip. :3gears: And for the record, I have never seen and don't plan to see Deliverance. But I have heard all the sick references to it 17million times or so. :TU:
Joel, you'll have to bring your Banjo to Martin for a demonstration. :TU: As for me, nothing with instruments, but I did own a '57 Buick, '69 Chevelle, '72 Polara, '70 Impala, '52 Ford, '54 Ford, '67 Thunderbird and a 68 Toronado* before graduating high school. *(If you are going to high jack a thread it needs to have an Olds reference) :laugh:
Sounds like you did some fiddlin'......with wrenches! :bglasses: No hijacks here (I started this thread) but you should see Dave H. as a youngin'! :moonu: p
I got that band story beat. How about 6'2" and only 125 lbs.? And worse, playing the clarinet!! Needless to say I switched to the trumpet my senior year. But during the winter I always got to sit in band surrounded by girls!
"This one time ... (gasp)... at band camp ...(gasp)...." :bglasses: I played the violin from first through 12th grade. Stopped playing when engineering courses in college took their toll. I still pick it up about once a year just to humble myself. Now I regularly function as a "sound man," moving faders and twiddling knobs, trying to make musicians sound better than they really are.
How about jazz band camp ?? ou: Of course we spent our time jumping BMX bikes into the lake, listening to AC/DC, and doing a midnight run on the girls cabin ...... :Brow:
Drum lessons at 5, piano lessons from 6-10, e flat alto sax in the school band from 9-11. Discovered girls, basketball, and cars, started working at a drive in theater in Ky at 12. Flash forward to college, played guitar (still have my 1964 Gibson C-1 Classical), sang a few times and played backup at bar in Ann Arbor, switched to keyboard in 70's, still have my Lowery Cotillion organ, Japanese mandolin, the Gibson, a Yamaha Ukele, and just gave my Yamaha Clavinova electronic piano to my daughter. Rusty: You fink.........I tried to post those pics here, but file was too big. By the time I got it withing the limitations, it was only about the size of a postage stamp. Going to scan and post a couple more....my 52 Ford (that raced against Ted Harbitt's 51 Studebaker in the 60's at Milan) and my B/MP Valiant from the same time period. :grin:
I took up the guitar after high school - electric. In my undergrad I got into classical guitar, taken lessons at the school and peforming in the Classical Guitar Ensemble. Now that I'm in (a different) grad school, I'm again taking lessons and in the ensemble.
That trip was really hot. The coupe was overheating something fierce. We left the hood at a gas station in Vineland, NJ (about 1/2 way) and picked it up on the way back. Plugged radiator. $5 at a junkyard. When I saw this pic, I couldn't believe I was standing on the fender. That car was beautiful. At least took my shoes off.
That was back when you could stand on a fender and not leave a crease. Now-a-days the fenders are thinner and my feet heavier. I'm sure it's just the feet.
even back then, they had their limits next time you talk to Paul Vitale, ask him why he had to replace the hood on his Impala ou:
I thought that hood was dented in by Linda Vaughn whe she was posing for those pics with Paul's car. That would go up on the wall of a garage. :bglasses:
