Originally Posted by: RivieraI have this urge to start, need to get a job first. I don't want to find out I had a bad reason for playing. It would just be better to have a genuine passion. I just hope you guys can inspire some real sentiment for sitting for hours by yourself strumming your guitar.

Genuine passion must come from u..not from us guys on the board. :cool:

anyway... u pick up guitar ok, and u do it for the image - i dont think that really works out,

1. guitar is not as easy as it seems u need to practice a lot, especially for the first few months, to get ur fingers playing fro more than half an hour without feeling like the skin is gonna break.

2. by the time uve done this if its only image u want then mostly ur guitar will stay in the case.

3. even if u do manage to keep learning and still be only concerned about image, im sure u have a good brain mechanism that allows you to jerk yourself around, and make u think that ur doing this outta love.

4. as is always the case, u must have more then enough to know what enough is - so always try out stuff that tickle ur brain no matter how silly they seem,

on the other hand u can start out, with a gut wrenching loin burnin passion, and end up with a block after a few years, - im in this situation now, after 2 yrs after finally getting a guitar i seem to have lost my motivation. [not passion but i question it due to lack of practicing] vicious cycle damn right

well thats a pile of rubbish... :D