I've been playing for a long time and don't know a lot about gear and theory.
So people just loose me when they get into double humbuckers with switchs and stuff. Don't get me started about amps, I can't even tell you the model of mine and I have it since 1998. And theory, well, about the same. Don't start talking about sus7 things and dissonance....
I just got by modes and still am not sure about all that.
The fact of the matter is that I don't care about those things. When I get home I plug my guitar and it works, that's all I need :) and sometimes a beer afterwards.
I bought a guitar the other day and the salesman begins to tell me about the pickups and the tremolo being a floyd Rose and just when he was getting the blue prints out :) I just told him " just plug the damn thing and let me play, if I like the feeling I'll buy it".
The thing I hate is when someone looks down on you because you don't know how to read music or the name of all the notes on the fretboard. Crap I play guitar, shouldn't that be enough!!! Wow that felt good....
Anyway that's why I stay on this forum, nobody here has ever look down on me even if I don't know this stuff. This is rare and we should thank the guys that keep this up more often. so thanks guys