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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

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Woolworth's Teisco Guitar
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notJaco said:
That is where I got my first electric.
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That guitar is the reason I started my bass journey and I am on this website today.

My mother spent $35.00 for that guitar for my 10th birthday in 1966. That was almost a week's worth of wages for her. She also bought me a drum pad, sticks, and instruction book a few months later so I could start drum lessons in school. I did not have an amp and did not take guitar lessons. I took drum lessons for a little over 2 years and that really has helped me with my bass playing over the years. I was in a band in the 1970s that the drummer and I switched instruments for a few songs.

In July 1969, we moved to another part of our neighborhood and I met a kid who was a few years older than me who played guitar and had a band. I told him I had a guitar in a cardboard box and he said let's get together and he would show me some stuff on guitar. We started doing that often and I learned the notes, a few chords, and songs over the next 10 months. His band had a graduation party in May 1970 and their drummer could not make the gig. I played percussion instruments and sang. The next week, the bass player could not make a party gig and I did the same thing.

After that, I was in the band as what we dubbed "rhythm bassist". I played guitar with a little bit of chords but mostly lead type parts. A few months went by and the bass player quit and I moved onto permanent bass player and the rest is history almost 51 years and many thousands of gigs later. It's all because my mother bought me that guitar.
 
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Richland123 said:
That guitar is the reason I started my bass journey and I am on this website today.

My mother spent $35.00 for that guitar for my 10th birthday in 1966. That was almost a week's worth of wages for her. She also bought me a drum pad, sticks, and instruction book a few months later so I could start drum lessons in school. I did not have an amp and did not take guitar lessons. I took drum lessons for a little over 2 years and that really has helped me with my bass playing over the years. I was in a band in the 1970s that the drummer and I switched instruments for a few songs.

In July 1969, we moved to another part of our neighborhood and I met a kid who was a few years older than me who played guitar and had a band. I told him I had a guitar in a cardboard box and he said let's get together and he would show me some stuff on guitar. We started doing that often and I learned the notes, a few chords, and songs over the next 10 months. His band had a graduation party in May 1970 and their drummer could not make the gig. I played percussion instruments and sang. The next week, the bass player could not make a party gig and I did the same thing.

After that, I was in the band as what we dubbed "rhythm bassist". I played guitar with a little bit of chords but mostly lead type parts. A few months went by and the bass player quit and I moved onto permanent bass player and the rest is history almost 51 years and many thousands of gigs later. It's all because my mother bought me that guitar.
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You and me and me bro Neil as well pretty much the same journey :)how i miss them times :bassist:
 
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