I've been known to pick a song or two. My interest in the guitar started when I was very young. My older sister was a teenager during the 1960s, and she was always playing AM radio, or 45s, in her bedroom. My ear always picked up on the guitar parts; never the vocals, drums, keys, bass, etc. I knew at that young age I wanted to learn the guitar; that 'sound' was stuck in my ears, and my brain. Got my first guitar when I was about 9, circa 1970. It was a nylon string classical guitar, which was about the last thing in a guitar I wanted. Went to a music teacher for about one year, never took it seriously, and after a year, or so I just lost interest; not that there was much any way. I wanted an electric guitar, and I wanted the sounds of an electric guitar, not some nylon string classical dingus.
Not long after that I started learning cello, by default; I wanted to learn violin but the conductor said, "we already have too many violin players." Well rat crap; I guess I'll play cello then. I ended up doing the cello thing for four years; learned cello the first two years, then then the last two years I played in an 85 piece orchestra. After four years of playing cello, from age 11 to age 15, I got bored with it. That's when I went back to guitar.
Since I had the musical training I needed from learning & playing cello for four years, I decided to learn guitar by ear, and I did.
Cello notation is on the bass clef & guitar notation is on the treble clef. I refused to learn the treble clef; my bad but that is the route I went.
Between ages 15 & 20, I learned to play several songs, I bought & sold several guitars, and I sold a couple of amps. During that time frame I was also asked to join a couple of bands, which I refused. I saw how bands were very 'political' & I did not desire to get involved in the band politics crap scene. I pissed off one of the band leaders (Tommy) when I turned down the invite to join his band. Oh well. I've done a minor bit of recording but I mostly just work on technique & song structure; not so much theory.
In the past ~5 decades I have purchased right at 400 guitars, sold about 90% of those, sold all but one amp which I use for practice, and I still have nearly 40 fiddles. They stay in one room, a room which I barely have any space to navigate in. Yesterday a guy asked me for details on a guitar I have listed for sale & it took me 15 minutes just to dig the case out of a pile of guitars. I think I'm gonna be on the next episode of 'Hoarders.'
All of the guitars I currently own are MIJ aka they are knock offs, copies, replicas, etc. Been doing the MIJ thing for decades.
Here is a pic of me from June, 1982; I was 21 then. My sister came over that day & wanted to take a pic of me playing guitar. LOL
This was the first Strat I ever purchased. I played Strats exclusively from 1981 to 2001.
That is a 50 watt black panel bassman sitting on top of a slant front Marshall cab. Gee I wish I still had that set-up.
Here is one of my favorites, an all mahogany (neck & body) replica of a 1958 Gibson Futura. This thing is a beast.
I have one acoustic; it's from 1979, the same year I graduated high school. It is constructed with spruce, ebony, mahogany, brazilian rosewood (back & sides), abalone shell inlays, and MOP binding. All the acoustic guitar I will ever require. If this was a Martin I could buy a new car. LOL
Here are two of several Les Paul types I have; these are my two favorites, in no particular order.
This one has Honduran mahogany body & neck, and brazilain fingerboard.
This one is just bad ass
