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Location: Flahdaw | How about a thread where you post early shots of you playing guitar. Here's me and my first duo partner playing at a fantastic club in Gainesville Florida while attending the Univ of Fla, 1976. Yikes...40 years ago.
The Great Southern Music Hall was the premier performance hall back then, and famous acts from all over played there. I normally played solo downstairs in the Wine Cellar, occasionally upstairs at the Backstage Bar, but certainly never made it to the "big stage". Sadly, the place closed down many years ago. I'm on the right, playing a vintage Gibson 
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Hey, Bob, I have some pics I can send but was curious how you got the pic to show up in the post instead of just the link. Thanks!
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Location: Jet City | rick endres - 2015-07-10 10:02 AM Hey, Bob, I have some pics I can send but was curious how you got the pic to show up in the post instead of just the link. Thanks! Nice pic, by the way. How to post pictures, links, etc... |
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Location: Jet City | 16yo Still have the guitar... Still has the same strap on it 
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Location: Seacoast NH | 4 years old? Circa 1978-79 First jam with my Uncle Paul (we would have many more over the years). he taught all his nephews how to play and passed away far too young about 20 years ago. My Aunt gave me his old mandolin a while back, the one I'm playing in the pic, just had it all fixed up good as new by a luthier friend. 
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Location: Indiana | 1973... my David Cassidy period.
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Location: Jet City | HA!
Great pic.
I was a few years younger... I remember getting the Shaun Cassidy doo
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Location: Tennessee | 1981. We were playing as Ricochet in those days.  |
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Location: SoCal | I'd post a picture but I look the same. Once a dork, always a dork. Now just an older one...... |
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Location: Indiana | damon67 - 2015-07-10 6:38 PM
Almost looks like a Tornado behind you.
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | Here's a shot of me in pre O days with my 1980 Takamine EF360s, a pre-lawsuit model. Taken in about 1981
I still have the Tak, and still love it.
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Location: Flahdaw | Jeez....Gordon Lightfoot! |
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Location: Jet City | The oldest pic I know of with the UKII. 1984 I think 
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Location: Tuscany, Italy |  1977...with some friends. I hold a Ibanez model 754 all maple woods, basically a copy of the gibson everly brother.... my friend was playing a very nice Tama.....no Ovation (sigh). I'm the one on the right (still wearing my hair... )
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Late 70's  |
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Location: Flahdaw | No,.... pictures of YOU! Those 2 guys have hair. |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Good looking group of Fellas here!!! 
This is a fun post, please keep them coming!!! 
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Location: south east Michigan | I've never posted this one before...
And Bob... I so much know what your going to post I'm sure I could write if for you.
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Oh well ... after 6 or so tries on something I've done many times before, photobucket is just not co-operating.
Guess it was just not meant to be.
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Location: Cicero, NY | My God. I am ALMOST ashamed.
Going back through some old pics and, for some unGODly reason, almost every pic of me with a guitar in my hands has me in a leisure suit. Shirt collars that I could almost trip over and colors that Crayola would be ashamed of. I'm quite sure that Barnum & Bailey would have turned me away for being "too loud".
And, no. No way. Ain't gonna happen no how so let's keep the crowd moving. There's nothing more to see here...
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Brad Durasa - 2015-07-11 1:37 PM
I've never posted this one before...
And Bob... I so much know what your going to post I'm sure I could write if for you.
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Oh well ... after 6 or so tries on something I've done many times before, photobucket is just not co-operating.
Guess it was just not meant to be. 
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Location: Flahdaw | Mr WeaserP - 2015-07-11 4:48 PM
Going back through some old pics and, for some unGODly reason, almost every pic of me with a guitar in my hands has me in a leisure suit. Shirt collars that I could almost trip over and colors that Crayola would be ashamed of. I'm quite sure that Barnum & Bailey would have turned me away for being "too loud".
And, no. No way. Ain't gonna happen no how so let's keep the crowd moving. There's nothing more to see here...
C'mon, it's not like you're dressed as a weird candelabra or something........oops, never mind... |
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Location: Flahdaw | arthurseery - 2015-07-11 5:27 PM
Oh no, Brad... You ain't getting off that easy. This photo deserves public exposure.
You, know, it's really tough to put THAT much effort into a Herman Hermits song.... |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I don't know there DB...
"If everyone was a 'enery, 'ENERY!..."
You can get pretty excited. 
edit-- the alt-code music notes don't come through. 
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | darkbarguitar - 2015-07-12 2:03 AM
Jeez....Gordon Lightfoot!
And I do a pretty reasonable finger-style version of If You Could Read My Mind.
Problem is nowadays all my hair is white, well what's left
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Standingovation - 2015-07-11 3:53 PM
1972.
I certainly am not going to post mine now, StandingOvation has prettier hair than mine!!! |
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | naellis58 - 2015-07-12 1:00 PM
I certainly am not going to post mine now, StandingOvation has prettier hair than mine!!!
Aw c'mon Nancy! |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | BanjoJ - 2015-07-11 9:47 PM
naellis58 - 2015-07-12 1:00 PM
I certainly am not going to post mine now, StandingOvation has prettier hair than mine!!!
Aw c'mon Nancy!
Ok, just because everyone else is too, but we were camping at a lake up north, no electricity (remember how all important that hairdryer was???), no make up, and had I known Vicki was taking this picture, she would have ended up in the lake. I was always very camera shy.
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | naellis58 - 2015-07-13 2:55 AM
Ok, just because everyone else is too, but we were camping at a lake up north, no electricity (remember how all important that hairdryer was???), no make up, and had I known Vicki was taking this picture, she would have ended up in the lake. I was always very camera shy.
Thanks Nancy.
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Location: Tennessee | That's a great picture, Nancy... AND you're playing an Ovation!
I also notice that you have have subconsciously known she had the camera, and made sure to play just the right chord, in protest
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | Natural always trumps hairdryers and makeup! Them women of the 60's had it right. The women of today with their artificial look pale in comparison!!
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Here's me with my very first guitar back in December 1982!
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | Allen - 2015-07-12 10:35 PM
I also notice that you have have subconsciously known she had the camera, and made sure to play just the right chord, in protest
LMAO!!! I had never noticed that!!! LOL!!!!! Excellent Catch Allen!!!! LOL!!!!! |
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Location: SoCal | naellis58 - 2015-07-11 6:00 PM
Standingovation - 2015-07-11 3:53 PM
1972.
I certainly am not going to post mine now, StandingOvation has prettier hair than mine!!!
I hate Witko. He still has all his hair. It may be shorter and stand up straight, but it's all there, damn him..... |
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Location: Burbank | Here's me in 1981 with my Ibanez Iceman! I still have this guitar. I just wish I still had that much hair!
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | mlobosco - 2015-07-14 8:41 AM Playing my Preacher in a HS band - circa 1980. I still have most of the Preacher. Fortunately, the hat is long gone.
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Location: Flahdaw | AstroDan - 2015-07-14 3:10 PM
Nice HS beard. What are you, like 28?
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I hope that my wife decided not to scan those pictures of my glory days. Better left in the dark of the old photo albums. |
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