Never Too Old

[Steve Woodcock]

For anyone thinking they've left it too late to take learning an instrument seriously, take encouragement from this: I have recently taken on a student who is 96.

[Staggering on]

Wonderful!

[MacDaddy]

If he was a Delta bluesman then he's just getting started 😎

[Paul S]

Hope he pays up front....

[lownote]

"Woke up in the morning.... thank god for that"

[Paul S]

A couple of years ago my neighbour bought a new boat.  He has sailed all his life and thought he'd treat himself.  He then decided to get the bottom 'coppered' as, in the long term, it is better value.  He was just 87 at the time.  Now 94    

[mikel]

Saw Focus in December. Pierre van der Linden was superb. One of the most accurate, skillful and hard hitting drummers I have seen, and I always liked hard driving music. They played for 2 hours 20 minutes and were superb. He never missed a beat and did a 10 minute full on solo. He is 74.

[odysseus]

Excellent. Utmost respect! Way better than rotting in front of Cash In The Attic. 🤘

[lownote]

This week I was asked to photograph legendary tenor saxist Art Themen.  Awesome musician.  81.  

[Balcro]

I hope I'm as involved as guys from that generation. Once a week I volunteer to teach general computing / internet etc., to old folks.
There's one guy there, 94 & very deaf, who last year was trying Audacity and has now switched to learning Excel despite macular degeneration.

[MacDaddy]

Marshall Allen is still leading the Sun Ra Arkestra, at a sprightly 95 years of age.

[ambient]

I was teaching someone who was 80. He stopped having lessons though after deciding to concentrate on his drumming instead.

[Stippy]

Blimey, Good Luck to him, thought I was old at 55 ..!

[burno70]

I think he's awesome and exactly the kind of old boy I want to be. Still enthusiastic to try new things and keeping active.

[PatrickJ]

If his goal is to try and impress and pick up the chicks at the retirement home I hope he went for lead guitar and not bass!!

Edited March 11, 2020 by PJ-Bassist

[oxfordchris]

Thought I was to old to have a tutor i'm 71 

[TheMaartian]

I just stopped by the local music store yesterday to hire an instructor to help me with my muting techniques, among other things. I was feeling pretty old at 68, until I was told that the student before me was just starting. At 81. I left feeling a bit younger.

Time to fix the intonation on the A string on my SR.

[Steve Woodcock]

Interesting that the general assumption is the student is male! She's actually an accomplished psychologist and author, with her next book coming out in May! Truly inspirational and I can only hope to be a switched on as her if I ever reach such an age.