What were you doing when you were Eleven years old?

[lowdown]

Well, you should have been practicing like this lad......

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_z6XSkifGI[/media]

Edited September 27, 2016 by lowdown

[discreet]

Learning grammar.

[Maude]

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Learning grammar.
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I weren't

[lowdown]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1474969297' post='3141847']
Learning grammar.
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What's a C between friends?

[grandad]

Aged 11 I was listening to SLEEPWALK by Santo and Johnny and 40 MILES OF BAD ROAD by Duane Eddy on my friends gramaphone.

I was also looking at pictures of these things called electric guitars.

That young lad has talent.

[BigRedX]

When I was 11 I had just discovered pop/rock music having previously shown very little interest in any kind of music of any kind.

It would be another 2 years before I started to learn to play the guitar, but had I been playing back then it would have been glam rock songs inspired by T Rex etc. that I had written myself.

[LayDownThaFunk]

Putting my hand in my pants like a real g.

[FinnDave]

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What's a C between friends?

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It can be as wide as an ocean

[lowdown]

Or, deep as a puddle.

[paul_5]

Mostly riding my bike, avoiding homework and playing computer games on a Spectrum. I wouldn't pick up the bass for another 6 years.

[grandad]

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Mostly riding my bike, avoiding homework and playing computer games on a Spectrum. I wouldn't pick up the bass for another 6 years.
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Didn't pick up a bass for another 40 years.

[Norris]

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Learning grammar.
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I'm glad it's weren't not just me

[ras52]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1474969660' post='3141855']
What's a C between friends?

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[quote name='Norris' timestamp='1474979013' post='3141981']
I'm glad it's weren't not just me
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Nope, your not alone.

[zbd1960]

That would be 1971 for me. I started buying classical LPs then. Started playing cello at school the following year, but after that would then not play again until in my 50s. BG was 45 years away...

[lowdown]

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That would be 1971 for me. I started buying classical LPs then. Started playing cello at school the following year, but after that would then not play again until in my 50s. BG was 45 years away...
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Wow, that is a long wait for the promised land.
(In Bass term of course).
But then again, it's never too late.

Edited September 27, 2016 by lowdown

[bassbiscuits]

It was 1985 and I was just getting into rock music, via stuff like The Scorpions, Iron Maiden and Kiss.

I didn't get a bass till i was 12 but did pay violin (pretty basically, and pretty badly) so i started holding that like a guitar and plucking it.

Luckily playing bass took over the following year.

[Happy Jack]

I was discovering nostalgia ...

[Hobbayne]

I was 11 in 1976, so I remember the long hot summer and my last year at Junior school. It would be another 6 years before I took up the bass.

[lowdown]

What were you doing at three years old?

http://youtu.be/cYlnfke49NA

Edited September 27, 2016 by lowdown

[ras52]

He's a late starter!

[Twigman]

That would be 1976 for me...I remember having to travel ON MY OWN from Chelmsford to Dusseldorf..via London train/tube and Luton airport..

Can you imagine an 11 year old doing that today?

I didn't pick up a bass for another 3 years or so.

[IainS]

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Mostly riding my bike, avoiding homework and playing computer games on a Spectrum. I wouldn't pick up the bass for another 6 years.
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Me too. 1985, and I certainly wasn't as good at anything as that kid is, apart from maybe avoiding homework.

[lowdown]

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He's a late starter!


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There has been a scan picture on Facebook over the weekend (Dave Swift announced that he will be a dad),
the picture included a Bass Guitar in the womb, tagged, 'no blood test needed'.

Edited September 27, 2016 by lowdown

[Highfox]

Away at Boarding School and counting myself lucky to have my own table tennis racket and cricket bat to while away the free hours.
I think if I started playing at 11 (actually I was 14) I'd still be tone deaf and struggling

That kid's going in the right direction tho.

[Woodinblack]

Playing the piano a lot, but mostly cycling round outside as it was an exceptionally warm and long summer, ie 76