... if there was nobody to jam with, we had to play all the instruments ourselves!
You kids nowadays have NO IDEA how good you've got it! 
I would love to hear what racket he was making with that. I really like OMBs of the non-looper variety. The looper gimmick gets old pretty quick imo. But guitar and drums and vocals and harmonica coming from one person can sound like an entire band, if they can pull it off, and some really can.
Dozens of images , possibly dozens of videos, right there on your Internet.
Before home computers, television, internet, and other major time wasters there was 'do it yourself 'music. Once I had a 1908 re-copied version of the Sears-Roebuck catalogue. There were several brands and types of musical instruments covering many pages of the catalogue. For an extra few cents they would send it to your home anywhere in the USA. I remember as a kid when every home earning above $8,000 a year likely had a piano. Today people are having a problem giving them away for free.
We had a piano.
Mom had a uke, then my sister had one, then I got one.
Big brother had a guitar, and would beat on me if I tried play it.
Them we got an autoharp.
We could crank out songs, either at the piano, or a capella while doing dishes.
Those were the days!
We've always had instruments in my family, but I don't ever remember anyone ever playing more than one at a time. But what is good about all us guys who play by ourselves? Having a loop machine, a drum machine, and a digital synthesizing machine that will make my guitar or banjo sound like any instrument known to man. But I have learned one important lesson in all this. If "one man" sucks in this new little band, it seems all of them do. Heh Heh.
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Originally posted by doncBefore home computers, television, internet, and other major time wasters there was 'do it yourself 'music. Once I had a 1908 re-copied version of the Sears-Roebuck catalogue. There were several brands and types of musical instruments covering many pages of the catalogue. For an extra few cents they would send it to your home anywhere in the USA. I remember as a kid when every home earning above $8,000 a year likely had a piano. Today people are having a problem giving them away for free.
I would love to have a great old fashioned piano in my home, if I had the room, maybe a stand up version. As it is, I think the trend has moved to buying your kid a Casio "learning" keyboard for around $100 or so, that can basically do anything you can do on a keyboard, and make it sound like any instrument. They come with hundreds of built in songs, a teaching system where you follow along with lights, and one finger chords, I bought one for my daughter several years ago, which she "played" for about six months, lost interest, and it is sitting on top of a cabinet in my bedroom. I also have a nice electric home piano sitting in a closet my brother's kids damaged and I don't know how to have repaired. So I believe I better stay away from a good old fashioned piano for now.
