Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
I was going through my grandparents' photo albums not long ago and saw a Christmas pic of me when I was 6 or 7 holding a guitar and grinning from ear to ear. I was standing with the guitar hanging from it's strap and I was dressed in a brown suit without a tie and wearing cowboy boots. Mind you this was '76 or '77. I swear I coulda been on the Grand Ole Opry as a mini Glen Campbell.
Lolz, my own experience was somewhat similar. Somewhere out there floats around a picture of your's truly with his first gee-tar...at Christmastime as well. I believe I was eight or nine and the deal was that if I played a classical instrument I could partake in guitar lessons too. My pic has the characteristic flipflops and cargo shorts with a brand-spankin'-new Gibson SG that, at that age, weighed a ton.

Ahh, the memories....