you can't play anymore?

Me, I'm 64 and disabled by chronic and joint pains. I've played guitar since I was 10 years old back in 1960 (no, I'm not a prodigy). I love guitars and it bugs me when it's hard to play. I know there's time to let it go but I don't want to.

Getting old sucks and I still wanna rock.

I refuse to learn/play slow/easy stuff.

Rant over.

ETA: oh yeah, I can't remember shit either.

I'm only 36 and have tendonitis in my hands from my job.  I can play for short periods of time.

37 and have broken my left wrist a couple times, also a few boxers fractures in that hand from work.

I certainy can't play near as fast, or as long as I used to.

As a result, my playing is moving more toward blues from the Southern Rock and classic metal sounds.

I am almost 55... and if it were not for modern medicine ..drugs.. I would no longer be able to

I feel you guys and I know I can go to slower music but hard to get the rock out of my soul. All my radios are tuned to rock, especially classic rock and that what I like to play. When I started I was a surf instrumentalist.

I love the 60s and the 70s forever.

52 here....I play about 2-3 hours per day.

Aleve is your friend.  Aspercreme is your friend

constantly doing finger excercises...

more limber now than I was in my teens (at least in my hands!)

 
I'm 64 and would love to play in a 60/70s band again , I have acoustic and electronic drums and I only play rock , it's really difficult to find guys to form a band with , maybe someone will chime in :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Sorry for your struggles OP.


Playing has been the center of my existence for the past 30+ years. I'm going-on 47 now and have been having some struggles on and off. I'm hanging in there so far (though I've had to make some adjustments), but I know that one day I'll likely have to give it up, or curtail it far beyond the point of my comfort.

Back in the mid-90s I gave up playing electric to focus on my classical studies and repetoire. I had an entire evening's worth of the classics memorized and started doing some church things and weddings. It felt good to have elevated my game, and I practiced 4-6 hours every night after work. Then I started having some serious issues with my ulnar nerve in my right arm. My arm would go numb from my elbow down. I eventually had to quit doing that. I went back to playing a Strat (the comfort forearm contour really helped with the issue). Fast-forward to several years ago. I get a passion for flamenco style music and start wood-shedding on that again. I write and record a couple of albums' worth of material for that and start gigging around my area. I continued doing that for about 18 months and it felt good, because I was the only person ever to really do that in my region. I liked having my own schtick. But a little over a year ago I had to quit again. The ulnar nerve issues had become an issue again. So I'm back to playing rock and country on Strats and Les Pauls. I still deal with nerve issues, but am able to somewhat keep them in check while standing, playing electric solid-bodies. So I just take comfort in the fact that I can still play [for now at least].