So much to comment on in this thread already. I meant to start one on guitars and guitarists after football season ended then it got extended with the bowl game and I forgot. Glad you did it BP.
I started learning 5 yrs ago after I retired when I learned you could play an electric pretty much silently with headphone and aux input jacks (I live in a NYC co-op apartment so noise is an issue). Should have started many years ago. So I'm a bedroom player with a small amp and am not very good but learning and playing along with songs I like has been a hoot.
I bought a PRS SE 245 and liked it a lot til I started messing with Stratocasters at the GC a while ago and just traded in the PRS on a Player Plus a couple of weeks ago. And yea, I know I could have sold it myself for more than the trade in but I just didn't want the hassle. And actually, Sam Ash gave me a decent deal and they were good to work with.
Started with JustinGuitar online lessons and I think he/they are pretty good. Now I'm to the point where I have a bunch of songs I can play along with and when I figure out a new one to learn, it usually has a chord or chords or changes or strumming patterns that are new to me so each one presents a new challenge.
There are just so many guitarists with off the chart talent and I don't know the names of tons of them. A few that I do know and really like are Mark Knopfler, Derek Trucks, Jimmy Page, Ry Cooder, Buddy Miller, Stuart Mathis, Wachtel, ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me", both the Zevon and Linda versions are two of my favorites to play), Johnny Marr - will think of others but that's a start.
I started learning 5 yrs ago after I retired when I learned you could play an electric pretty much silently with headphone and aux input jacks (I live in a NYC co-op apartment so noise is an issue). Should have started many years ago. So I'm a bedroom player with a small amp and am not very good but learning and playing along with songs I like has been a hoot.
I bought a PRS SE 245 and liked it a lot til I started messing with Stratocasters at the GC a while ago and just traded in the PRS on a Player Plus a couple of weeks ago. And yea, I know I could have sold it myself for more than the trade in but I just didn't want the hassle. And actually, Sam Ash gave me a decent deal and they were good to work with.
Started with JustinGuitar online lessons and I think he/they are pretty good. Now I'm to the point where I have a bunch of songs I can play along with and when I figure out a new one to learn, it usually has a chord or chords or changes or strumming patterns that are new to me so each one presents a new challenge.
There are just so many guitarists with off the chart talent and I don't know the names of tons of them. A few that I do know and really like are Mark Knopfler, Derek Trucks, Jimmy Page, Ry Cooder, Buddy Miller, Stuart Mathis, Wachtel, ("Poor Poor Pitiful Me", both the Zevon and Linda versions are two of my favorites to play), Johnny Marr - will think of others but that's a start.