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 My first recollection of loving the guitar would be the old cowboy movies, like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. They had guitars in them. Also, you couldn't study guitar in the school system, so that was good, too.
So, every Tuesday night for five years I got a guitar lesson. My dad drove me to Bill Salus' house while pointing out songs on the radio by Duane Eddy and Chuck Berry.
It would be nice to say I had some sort of arcane "blues-ey" roots, but I was born of AM radio and golden age television. So were my friends in music, so there was a great local music scene in the 60's, 70's and the 80's.
Being a baby boomer, I was about 12 or 13 when "they" happened. It was remarkable! Two guitars in one band! Outside of "The Ventures", unheard of!
I had already been playing in bands for a few years, so I lived through and felt the full force of the change in music brought by the Beatles. At that point, I became a guitar player in bands for life.
It was all those years of support for live regional music that was crucial to me personally, because that's how I learned music and the guitar. By doing and reviewing ad nauseum. And Study.
You learn it by studying it, and you learn by doing it with others.
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