Commentary: A couple of years ago something happened and I fell in love with the guitar all over again.
Opinion content—editorials, columns and guest commentaries—is created independent of news reporting and is exclusive to subscribers.Author Stephen J. Lyons, then 18, plays his Guild D-35 guitar at Salt River Canyon in Arizona, circa 1974.
My guitar deserved better. Not only was it the gateway to music and to the fellowship of friends, but also to the political. In the early 1970s, when the Vietnam War was still raging, I attended a Phil Ochs concert in an intimate courtyard at Northwestern University.
I left Chicago at 17 and headed west to my own Colorado Rocky Mountain High because, well, John Denver told me to do just that. With my trusty Guild D-35, I slept under the stars in Utah using my guitar case as a pillow. I hitchhiked from Colorado to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury . The normal twists and turns of life chipped away at all that youthful narcissism. Practical matters, e.g., employment, food, rent, marriage, kids, divorce, have a way of getting your undivided attention.Through it all, the idea of the person I had built in my early 20s still stood. But when I returned to playing my guitar I had a more realistic idea of what I could do in the remaining third of my life.
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