Well, got my start when I found an old crappy acoustic in my parents closet. I had never seen anyone in the house use it! Anyway, I enjoyed fiddling around on it (probably since XBOX wasn't invented yet!) and began taking lessons at around 9 years old. I was great at playing Puff the Magic Dragon! I got a Fender Stratocastor in the mid-late 70's and started to get into rock but my teacher was a Jazz instructor. Actually took Jazz lessons for about 8 or 9 years, but didn't care for it. And have pretty much forgotten everything he taught me anyway! Much preferred jamming to Ted Nugent, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, etc. Then Eddie Van Halen came onto the scene and I thought it was the greatest thing I had ever heard! I never practiced enough to get that good but it kept me going back then. Then, I quit playing for like 15 years and recently picked up playing again about 4 years ago.