The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

[guitarzan]

This is how I know they're my boys. Yesterday, my two boys (7 & 9) asked if we could turn their 3/4 Squier into one of Ed's. Out came the electrical tape. Mom came home from the grocery store to see us all at the kitchen table, "operating" on the guitar. We were like rock n' roll surgeons, in heated debates about where the stripes should go and how much was too much and how much was not enough. :)

I discovered pop muisc long before I discovered girls, and became a VH fan as soon as I heard Diver Down in elementary school. I was an EVH fanatic all through junior high and high school and well into college. (I went to a Christian high school in Texas and even had a red/black/white striped book cover on my Bible- which you can imagine how well that was received by the teachers and faculty.) Because I'm a much bigger fan of sportsmanship than athleticism, my fanhood waned substantially in the mid to late 90's. It hasn't really come back. BUT, I still feel a smile coming on when I think about the first time I heard VH with Sammy, and seeing them a half dozen times.

I'm glad my boys, in their innocense, can appreciate a really fine musician and his legacy without being jaded by the fact that he's human.

http://www.dognmoon.com/anderson/evh.jpg

[olectric]

that's so cool! yer a good dad.

[michaelomiya]

LOVE it!!!
...here's mine.

http://www.members.cox.net/eddyrox/evhasall.jpg

[Road King]

late reply i know but that rocks man. love the squier. love the fact your kids are interested, and that you support them, and are there for guidance. my dad (the best guitarist i personally know) showed me a total of one lick and did all he could to discourage me from playing. i know this was because of all the destructive things he was involved in while playing for a living, and that he blamed the atmoshere of club life for those things. he didn't want me to follow in those destuctive footsteps, which i promptly did weeks after graduating high school. my oldest son starts college next week. he is going to be a youth pastor and minoring in music. he plays along side his mother, who leads worship and sings and myself everyweek at church. he was exposed to great musicains from dimeola, keaggy, morse, evh, pastorius, peart ect. we showed him music in a positive light but also explained the dark side of the force to him. positive guidance is so important. kudos to you guitarzan.

as per the charvel trio.....that is coolest thing i have ever seen. i saw them in dallas at the very first texas jam music festival in 78 or 79. never has gotten over the white version. my main bar days axe was a robin strat w/ one humbucker and a whammy bar that shows the evh influence in its "custom" paint scheme. still have that one.

no longer runnin w/ the devil

Brad

[mbrown3]

Some cool stories. When I cut my teeth playing in the clubs of Prague and, in college, Philly, I got into the drug/alcohol stuff that often accompanies such a scene. But God never gave up on me and I ended up pretty down and out and decided to get my life straight. While I already knew that music was a powerful medium and form of expression, when I began to use music for worship, I discovered the true power that music possesses, and experienced things in music that I never knew possible.

I now pastor a church in Southern Michigan. I still play my guitar every week and even in some clubs (someday will get back to doing some more professional stuff with it), but it's now used as a tool for worshiping the almighty. I tell this story certainly not to preach at anyone, we all have different stories and experiences, but rather to say that I can relate to you both. I don't have any kids going to college, but I do have one on the way. I intend to teach him/her everything I know about music, but frame it as well as I can in the context of it being a gift that God has lent...and encourage them to spend their time and talent paying him back.

Whatever your beliefs, my high school principal once said "I'm not a Christian, but anything that has such a positive impact on kids can't be a bad thing."

[Road King]

cool

btw, congrats on the coming of little brown.

bbtw, no matter how the first one turns out, the second one will be the polar opposite.

[dannopelli]

cool

btw, congrats on the coming of little brown.

bbtw, no matter how the first one turns out, the second one will be the polar opposite.

AMEN TO THAT! I have five. One turns 21 Friday and one, my only girl, turned one in January. No two alike.

[mbrown3]

Thanks! We're excited. I've heard that they're all different. I can relate, too, just between my brother and myself. We're 11 months apart, and couldn't be more different in many ways. He's introverted, I'm extroverted. He hates cold weather, I hate hot weather (he lives in LA and I live in Michigan). He's tall and thin, and I'm...not. :)

There are many ways we're similar, too, but mostly quite different. Anyway, we'll try to get through the first one and go from there! Due in February, so right now it's all morning sickness and weird food combos.