Here's the Fender acoustic guitar I played from 1965 to 1975. I was into folk-rock music, and I learned many of the songs from The Byrds, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
At first, I spent about six months learning how to play. In 1965 and 1966, I was in a Smothers Brothers tribute band. We played in northeast Ohio when we were not working at WJER Radio.
1967-1968, I played in ski clubs and bars around Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania.
When The Navy found out I played guitar. I was put in a "music company" in Great Lakes boot camp and I played in the Officer's Club Band.
While on duty at Naval Air Station Kingsville Texas, I played at local clubs in 1969.
(With my best friend, who was a photographer, we'd go to the Padre Island National Seashore. He would shoot pictures of me with the guitar in the hopes of making young girls interested. It worked a half-dozen times.)
Great times.
