All your talk about Martins and Gibsons and Avalons -- I learned on a genuine Sears and Roebuck 1955 Special! Nylon strings that you had to re-tune ever 15 seconds! A neck that needed a C-clamp to keep it attached to the body!

By God, we learned to play back in those days! Not like your wimpy D-38s and C-4s and P51s or whatever they are. We were REAL guitar players! I could outplay anybody in my fourth grade class, by cracky! Wussies!