That said,
I went in to a guitar shop recently and said "Hello! I'd like to take up the guitar. I think I want an electric one." and I spent about an hour chatting to the chap before spending a few hundred quid.
( CowJam, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 23:19, archived)

did you get a my first guitar book?
can you play smoke on the water yet?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 17 Jun 2011, 23:21, archived)

I've a few books,
a few friends play guitar and passed their old stuff on to me. I started with guitar for dummies on the kindle and it's shit. Reference boos should be in print, kindle is for stories.

I can play the first couple of bars on single strings, I can't do the proper two string stuff. I learnt the first few bars of duelling banjos before I went in so I could play something the chaps in the shop were unlikely to hear from a n00b.
( CowJam, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 23:35, archived)

let me know when you're ready to start a B3ta rock band
we'll be world famous in no time. (i play Bass, or double Bass if necessary)
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Fri 17 Jun 2011, 23:41, archived)

Cool.
I seriously need to improve my rhythm. It used to be excellent but since my dad died I seem to have inherited his.
( CowJam, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 23:43, archived)