I don't really know, it depends when I became one. My parents made me take piano lessons off and on which I mostly disliked, but i had this notion that guitar would be easier cause it only had six strings. (Duh) My brother had acquired a guitar which he never learned to play, and being kind of hard on stuff, broke the neck off from the body. I was fourteen and didn't know that fixing a guitar that's been badly damaged in such a way is a complex and delicate task, so I just glued it back together, and the second time I tried, added a couple of dowels. Damn if it didn't hold for several years. (May be holding still for all I know, it got stolen while I was hitchhiking, but thats another story) I even abused it further by putting steel strings on it. Then I started tryng to learn to play, and damn, if I was trying to be popular and cool, (I was, trying that is) I think my guitar-bashing had the opposite effect for about five years.

To answer the original question which of course was now how but why, I usually say girls, but I gotta wonder, now I don't even know. It's just something I've always done.

I have a lot less fire and passion about it now than when I was younger--say, before the "personal computer revolution." I spend a lot more time yacking here, and secondarily, organizing musical events, than I do actually playing.

Willie-O