My uncle has played since he was a teenager. No one in my family is musical at all except for him. When I was young I was always a musical kid but I didn't know how to play anything. I had always wanted to learn to play guitar but my parents never gave me the opportunity to explore that because they didn't want to waste their money on something that I maight not stick with.
The year before I graduated high school, my uncle (who doesn't have a son of his own) bought me an American Standard Tele as an early graduation present. I obsessed over it for the next year and by the time I did graduate high school, I was good enough to be in a band. That was nearly 20 years ago.

With me it started with The Beatles and all those Elvis movies I saw on tv when I was a kid. Then I saw these guys and that was all she wrote...

Well, I was in Long Beach, MS, 16 years old, and we had just recieved DMX, (no not the rapper!). It was a cable run digital music system that ran through the stereo. It had something like 400 different genres of music. It came with this huge remote that had a screen display. you could listen to the song, and the display would tell you the album name, artist, etc. I was listening to the instrumental guitar channel, and Joe Satriani's "All Alone" came on. I was floored. I started pecking around on my mom's clasical guitar, and went from there. I moved in with my dad and that Christmas he bought me my first guitar. I haven't looked back since. Love to play. Every now and again I will put her down, but only for a couple of days, maybe a week, to let my brain veg on something else for a little bit. But most of the time, the first thing I do when I get home is pick it up and start plugging away. I have been an avid fan of Joe Satriani every since that day. There are a lot of people that don't give enough credit for the idea he created, making the Guitar the sole voice in the song, and just riding it like a Rip Tide, out to the outer most thoughts, of our psyche. So there's my story. Hope that gave you insight into the Frumster!

I had never picked up a guitar before college. A couple of my good friends were guitar players and they used to jam out 90s pop and alternative tunes, so I bought a guitar so I could learn some chords and jam along with them when I was about 20 or so. But I never practiced regularly until I got really into Stevie Ray Vaughan and blues when I was about 24. My first guitar was a Peavey Falcon . I still have it my closet.

My story started with a friend... I saw him playing some blues scale stuff.. very base level, but was cool none the less. I liked what I had heard so I decided I'd learn too. Turns out is was harder than I had thought. lol. We were actually going to get a band going, but all that fell through. I ended up moving 3 states away and starting college less than 6 months after started playing. He fell (more) heavily into drugs and alcohol. I spent all of my time learning the hardest blues material I could find. Once I got a feel for how the guitarists I liked used scales, etc. I've been trying to develop my own. I've since been stuck. Now I never have anytime to find band mates (Fulltime job, parttime job, starting more schooling in January and have a 6month old), or have the gear to jam over g.com. Most of what I play is slow blues. Good stuff, with little hints of Buddy Guy/SRV cram and jam licks where you put as many notes as you can into little phrases. What always saddened me when I had time and would look for Blues band mates, I could find any. Most would dabble, but none had a true love of it. I grew bored and hardly ever play anymore. Playing by myself has become more like playing with myself! It's fun at first, but then you find yourself doing evermore disturbing things!!! j/k I tried picking up on my playing but it all sounds the same to me now. Maybe by next year I'll have more time... until then I'm taking residency at musician's road block.

I am a blues player, Hard blues. If you're stuck check out Clutch "From Beale Street to Oblivion," or "Robot Hive, Exodus." He's kind of ZZ Topish, but he's his own all the same. Just a couple there, Hammerman. I love playing blues scales, chords, fingerpickin', all that. I played a blues tune for a guy the other day and he called it cheesy, and said I need to play faster, play some heavy metal. I don't know, I've grown apart from the heavy chugga chugga. I can do it, just doesn't have the same feeling, as the blues. I grew up around Memphis, TN. When I was first starting to play, I got up in front of an all black audience, and jammed with a couple of old school blues men. I want to live up there again.

mymother plays the guitar and sings like a goddess. she gave me my first guitar when i was 6.... hooked ever since.

I live in Little Rock, so you'd think I could find more blues musicians... The places I frequent don't have many though. On the other hand, I don't frequent anywhere right now, no time to. Kinda why I started a post on metal, to expand styles a bit. Right now about the only thing I play is blues or spanish... Played that Phrygian scale and it just came out, fun to play with. I do have some of my own stuff, kinda blues based but doesn't follow the standard formulas, much darker feel to it. I haven't taken it very far.. no one to bounce ideas off of. When I get a home computer, I'll have to post a recording or two. Only time will tell.

There has always been a guitar in the house as far back as I can remember. No-one played it, except for my father for a few minutes every few years. I tried strumming a few times as kid, but the two-dimensional layout of the notes made no sense to me and nobody explained it to me.

Me picking up the guitar was a reaction to my younger bro being convinced to sign up for guitar lessons while at primary school and him practicing all day everyday. Soon we had a second classical guitar and not long later, after I graduated highschool I took the leap and got the electric. And the rest is history.