# 81-year-old surprises guitar shop with his playing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/81-year-old-surprises-guitar-shop-with-his-playing/735670 "2015-10-24T23:22:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/81-year-old-surprises-guitar-shop-with-his-playing/735670/1 "2015-10-24T23:22:49Z")
He may have looked like their kindly old great grandfather. Little did they know Bob Wood is an instrumentalist from the 60’s and 70’s. Recorded several albums. > [@](#): > > The guitar player was awarded Entertainer of the Year by Eastern States Country Music Inc in 1975 and 1976, and in 2007, he was inducted into the Southern Legends Country Music Hall of Fame. The store staff were in for a treat. 😃😃 I guess maybe one in what maybe 20 customers really know how to play the guitars they demo in the stores? Even less play at this level. > **[Grandpa, 81, leaves guitar shop staff stunned with his performance](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3287259/Bob-Wood-81-walks-guitar-shop-leaves-staff-stunned-performance.html)** > > Bob Wood, of Bethpage, Tennessee, played a fun rendition of the traditionally bolero song Besame Mucho on an electric guitar in at British Audio Service in Nashville in 2014. He’s playing Besame Mucho at the guitar shop search youtube for Bob Wood there’s quite a few videos of him playing. ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/81-year-old-surprises-guitar-shop-with-his-playing/735670/2 "2015-10-25T03:34:23Z")
Wonderful. Thanks for that. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/81-year-old-surprises-guitar-shop-with-his-playing/735670/3 "2015-10-25T06:15:48Z")
Cool. Well, it was in Nashville. A friend of mine moved there some years after college for the songwriting scene. I remembering him saying in our hometown of over 40,000 people there were a maybe a handful who could _really_ play guitar at a top professional level. In Nashville, he said, there were more talented people just living on his street. They carry guitars around like Southern Californians carry surfboards. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/81-year-old-surprises-guitar-shop-with-his-playing/735670/4 "2015-10-25T08:58:57Z")
I wonder why the manager happened to be filming some random old guy playing? Unless of course he already knew it was Bob Wood, in which case it was no surprise. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/81-year-old-surprises-guitar-shop-with-his-playing/735670/5 "2015-10-25T10:23:46Z")
That was fun - great player. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/81-year-old-surprises-guitar-shop-with-his-playing/735670/6 "2015-10-25T13:15:39Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I wonder why the manager happened to be filming some random old guy playing? Unless of course he already knew it was Bob Wood, in which case it was no surprise. Maybe he noticed Bob Woods playing, and asked him if he’d like to do it again on film? That was great. As a player, I find it very inspiring to see people his age still able to play at a high level. So thanks.