As a teenager, with one of my first pay packets, I bought a cheap guitar, and a 'teach yourself guitar' book, I think it was written by John Pease.

Thanks to John, I learned to fingerpick 'Home on the Range', and played it, in the dark, at a beach barbecue in Wales; and despite my slow and careful picking and nervous singing, everyone sang along.

I really felt, then, that I'd arrived in the 'music scene'! :-)