Jon Bon Jovi Starts Guitar Lessons ~ Oprah's Master Class 2012

When I was seven years old, my parents, you know, like any other parents, want you to try to do something, for example, take you to

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lessons

. I remember very well this guy smoking a pipe in a little doorway that you know, almost like a closet, so it stinks up the room. with this pipe he's falling asleep while teaching you Bongo he's not gone this is not fun this is not cool this is nothing and I'm dying with this guy you know the pipe went home through that acoustic

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that was broke a tuning peg down the basement stairs leaning over you and it stayed there until I was 13 and a man named Hell Paronella moved across the street from my childhood home and he was in a club and it was like a modern guy and he showed us how to play songs and he showed me how to play a house of the rising sun and he said yeah if you don't know this next week you know, and I came back and I didn't know it he said don't waste my time Get out of here, get out, that was great, that was the best thing he ever said to me because if he had called me and said no I wouldn't have taken him seriously, but he told me not to waste my time, you know, get out of me. basement I have a family upstairs get lost I learned it then I learned the next I learned the next when you learn a song you start thinking about songs when you think about songs you want to write songs when you write songs you get to be here you know it and so it was with his breath thanks to his breath I'll stick with it