Not sure I have any pictures of my 40th when my wife bought me my first guitar back in 96.
They will be up the loft some where but to honest I was up to my neck in Martial Arts back then and really did not get going until I took early retirement at 55.
So fitting that today I was playing my Washburn HB30 TSB, which came into my possession 19th April 2011, the last day I had to answer to anyone bar SWMBO ! After 38 years of graft at least I didn’t get a friggin clock, the HB was much better than that and still is.
No old photos of me playing guitar, (plenty of me being old and playing guitar ) but I’ve found one of @brianlarsen
He’s clearly changed his name and been hiding his light under a bushel!!
While I did not take a picture holding my first guitar (3 years ago) I do have a couple short video clips Dan took of me with his phone from the very first time I attempted to play it
This was the first time I ever held a guitar in my life. You can see the absolute joy in my face as I attempt the only two chords I knew at that time
I still feel that joy when I play- but thankfully, I’ve figured out how to play those two chords now
Mine is just few months old, 10 August, 2024. I was playing “Let it be” and i mess up that fast chord progression which goes like, F C Dm C B5 Am G F C
I’ve only been at this guitar thing since mid-2022, so here’s a photo taken by my daughter in a small guitar shop in Oakland, California, where I played the open chords I knew on a Jeff Bridges Signature Breedlove acoustic. That was many JG lessons and many chord changes ago.
Ok, Roger mm it goes like this years ago I walked into a pub and met the other man in the photo, he was setting up to play I had just returned from having a guitar lesson and fancied a pint, he wanted to see the fender guitar so out it came he played it and asked if he could play it on his first spot that night, I said yeah mate fill your boots, two pints later I was on stage with him improvising so that was it for about four years played in local pubs clubs. But it soon got boring and repetitive and work and family got in the way. But Sid insisted on making a video/CD of us playing before we stopped playing. And my god it is terrible to watch I cringe my friend, but it was all good fun hope that helps he he
Ha ha Oke …
Glad you had a great time,fun is all that matters if we not have it as a day job …
My photo is probably of the same level of music quality…I did have a guitar around my neck but oh boy … but only what I played, because the people around me could really play and the guitarist in the band fortunately let me do some simple chord things and so I was allowed to stay on stage and just looking cool with a guitar
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… but only what I played, because the people around me could really play and the guitarist in the band fortunately let me do some simple chord things and so I was allowed to stay on stage and just looking cool with a guitar 
