Where were you 45 years ago?

Walter Jones · Post by **Walter Jones** » 5 Jan 2007 8:35 pm

Still working here a home and wondering when the Greetings from Uncle Sam would come. Four months later I had joined the Air Force and split for 4 years. Some of the guys I went to school with got drafted a year after I left, served two years in the Army and was home a year before I got out. Another of my wiser decisions

, the Air Force was a great adventure. BUT not great enough to make a career out of it.

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 5 Jan 2007 10:23 pm

Managing a supermarket,and picking six nights a week and sundays on a military base[Fort Benning]Avg about four hours sleep a night,Guess thats why I'm a worn out geezer today,But damn I had FUN.

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 5 Jan 2007 11:04 pm

1962 - Grade school, playing baseball, studying classical piano, and tromping through the woods in outer suburban Boston shooting pheasant or fishing with my grandfather. I'd give anything for one day out in the woods hunting with him again.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 6 Jan 2007 5:58 am

I was in elementary school in Philly in '61. My folks got me a Stella 6 string, some Black Diamond strings and started me on guitar lessons a couple years before that...I could play a swinging version of Little Brown Jug.
In '61 I started some group lessons with a folkie who taught me first position chords and finger picking styles. It was still 2 years before my first band and paying gig.

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 6 Jan 2007 9:51 am

i was 10 years old at the time livin' in Washington Heights NYC
164th st
not playin' Musik then but bangin' on the kitchen table

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 6 Jan 2007 10:33 am

That makes me 6-7 years old.
I was in elementary school.

I was also doing sound for my older neighbors band.
2 mics, 2 speakers and 50 watts.
I had also been recorded playing hand percussion with some folkies,
and had helped my dad with some public performance recordings.
Moving mic stands, running wires etc.

Within the year i was editing 1/4 tape with razorblades.

Dr. Richard Buffington · Post by **Dr. Richard Buffington** » 6 Jan 2007 11:03 am

I had opened a dental practice in Oregon and the Sneed family were patients of mine and I would go to the old Greenwood Lounge when I had a break in the afternoon and listen to Danny practice some Jimmy Day licks. I had been playing out for 14 years and already he was better than me. And then he really got good.

Fred Jack · Post by **Fred Jack** » 6 Jan 2007 11:10 am

I had to stop and think. 1962, I was 24, living in North Hollywood,Ca, with an underage wife and 3 little ones.
Wife being underage she could not frequent the bars and thats where I worked so.. I have pleasant memories and she has terrible ones so we don't reminence too often.

Robert Leaman · Post by **Robert Leaman** » 6 Jan 2007 11:28 am

Forty-nine years ago in 1958, not 45years ago, I was 27 years old and playing steel guitar in staff band for Shorty & Sally Fincher & The Prairie Pals at Vally View Music Park in Hallam, PA. I was out of the Navy and working toward my EE. Shorty had a heart attack and died in early 1959. Basically, that ended my full-time music career. Shorty Fincher was born in 1899 and the first C&W music at KDKA and Pittsburgh in 1928. He played five-string banjo claw hammer style. Shorty was the epitome of a southern gentleman and was very, very generous.

Jack,
I was born and grew up about 10 miles east of Lancaster, PA. You would not know the town now. Did you know that Shorty's given name was Luther and Sally's given name was Alexandria?

Shorty had a radio show on WORK York, PA for many years. He gave me my first good amplifier, a 26- watt Fender Bandmaster.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 6 Jan 2007 11:57 am

Bob, I remember Shorty and Sally, being that I'm originally from Mechanicsburg. I worked Valley View Park in the mid 60's with a band from York.

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 6 Jan 2007 6:39 pm

US Naval Hospital Corps school, San Diego, CA. I couldn't wait for the weekends so I could go out to the
Bostonia Ballroom and watch pro musicians play.

Richard Bass · Post by **Richard Bass** » 6 Jan 2007 11:15 pm

I was in the Air Force stationed at Charleston SC. Played 7 nights a week in the clubs around town.
Richard

L. A. Wunder · Post by **L. A. Wunder** » 6 Jan 2007 11:25 pm

I wasn't born yet.

Colby Tipton · Post by **Colby Tipton** » 6 Jan 2007 11:30 pm

In Baytown, Texas I was in the second grade at James Bowie school. Me and my buddies was in trouble all of the time as usual. It was 2 more years before I started getting interested in a guitar.

Denny Turner · Post by **Denny Turner** » 7 Jan 2007 7:54 am

15 years old playing the "wonderful" dives, honkey tonks, dance halls and concert halls (in that order

) around San Antone and the Hill Country, ...and chasing girls. San Antone had produced many fine Musicians, some well known, and many to become fine and well known. Life was grand.

Not long thereafter to be abruptly interrupted by the MIC Empire's / reich-wing-nuts' / loose-screws' Southeast Asia heroin cartel better known as vietnam-Laos.

Aloha,
DT~

Jerry Hayes R.I.P. · Post by **Jerry Hayes R.I.P.** » 7 Jan 2007 11:58 am

Ray, I wasn't too far from you. At that time I'd have just been arriving in Korea by a troop transport ship on my way to Camp Kaiser about 3 or 4 kilos from the DMZ and the "beautiful" village of Unchonee (spelling?) I did have a good time over there though and got to play a lot of music.........JH in Va.

Ron ! · Post by **Ron !** » 7 Jan 2007 3:39 pm

didn't even walk around on this earth at that date.I am one of the later generations.

John Maggard · Post by **John Maggard** » 7 Jan 2007 4:06 pm

At age 7, playing with my brand new Kenner Building Set...had I known what a PSG was at that time I no doubt would have tried to build one of those with it! My dad always played to us on his 1938 type O resonator, but played it like a standard non-slide guitar - maybe that counts.

Larry Strawn · Post by **Larry Strawn** » 7 Jan 2007 5:44 pm

1962, I was in Jr. High, was getting rich hauling hay in the summer, cutting fence post in the winter, and playin bass guitar with a local band at the American Legion hall every Sat. nite! the man paid me $10 a gig and fed me breakfast!

Larry

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 7 Jan 2007 6:24 pm

In 1962 my main interest was steam trains. Living in England, the system was still mainly steam at that time.

ray qualls · Post by **ray qualls** » 7 Jan 2007 6:57 pm

Jerry H, actually I was leaving Korea May 17, 1962 after being there 16 months. They extended us 3 more months because of the Berlin Wall as it was a 13 month tour. I was at Camp Stanley(village-Song son ee(sp). About 15 miles from Camp Red Cloud(village-Oui Jong Bu(sp). Kinda funny, we had quonset huts to stay in, now they have modern barracks. I flew over on MATS airline and a C-130. Got to Korea in Jan. 1961 and it was 30 below zero. I called out for Mama but she wouldn't come and get me! haha

I remember Camp Kaiser but never got to go there. You could see Pork Chop Hill from where I was stationed at. It was a famous hill in the Korean war. Came home on USS Mann troop ship, 17 days later I was in San Francisco. Had some real good KATUSA friends while I was there. I always wondered what ever became of them. WOW, 45 years ago.

Michael Breid · Post by **Michael Breid** » 7 Jan 2007 7:55 pm

In 1962 I was a senior in high school and wishing I had enough money for a Vega long neck five string banjo. Forty years later I got it. Good things come to those who wait.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 7 Jan 2007 9:13 pm

I was 15 years old, a sophomore in high school, and playing dobro and mandolin in a bluegrass band. The bass player? Mike Perlowin.

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 8 Jan 2007 3:17 am

1961 ---hmmmm--oh yeah ---sayin to myself "Why didn't you just learn how to cook" ?? (first marriage)

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 8 Jan 2007 3:32 am

I was sitting at my desk waiting for the Steel Guitar Forum to come on-line.

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