After looking at the calander I've come to realize that I'm now 31, don't know how it happened, and still don't feel any different then when I was 18.
I guess I ended up taking the guitar way too seriously as a kid, ended up getting both my BA and Ma in music. I'm fortunate enough to make my living in music, by playing professionally and teaching music courses part time at a High School. It's nice to have a job you look forward to going to each morning, I spent enough years at the other end of the spectrum. I hope to have a cd out soon, plan to start recording in late spring or early summer, as soon as I get soom bills payed off.
I think the kids have better educational resources today thanx to the internet, dvd and video. When I was starting out I had to pull the stuff off of a record or converse with friends and other musicians for info. I see students progress in 6 months what it took me 4 or 5 yrs to learn.
Plus..music dept. at unv. have drastically raised there standards for incoming students, so kids who want to pursue music related degrees are forced to get more serious about it at an earlier age.
The down side w/the kids today is that many of them don't have the time to practice 2 or 3 hrs a day like I had when I was a kid (I was much like Incidents growing up as far as practicing went).