I'll be 70 in January. I got my first guitar when I was eleven. Took me four years (til I got the Bert Weedon book) to get the the three chord trick together. Must be the slowest start ever!

I gave up the guitar when I was 18 for three years - I couldn't afford a playable guitar (so I said, but I was doing 40 fags a day - and getting pissed regularly).

My wife bought me a guitar when we got our first jobs, and I've played every day since. As the late Derek Brimstone (my greatest mentor said) 'i'm not one of the greats, but I'm no slouch when it comes to the guitar'

I took a lesson last week from jazz guitarist Rob Koral last week. He had one or two things, I wouldn't mind adding. Stuff I think I could add to what I do.

To play the guitar well, you need humility. It will take everything you've got.