Originally Posted by: DavesGuitarJourneyOriginally Posted by: craigbrown1805I forgot about the initial pain of playing- the tips of my fingers are killing me!
Yeah, but it's a strangely satisfying sort of pain! It is a rite of entry into the club.
I am picturing a T-shirt with an image of a hand with little squiggly lines radiating out of swollen red fingertips showing pain with text: it's a guitar thing, you wouldn't understand.
Let me know when and where I find one in XL. 
"It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to. I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time."
-- Chet Atkins
-- Chet Atkins
