I totally agree with you guys. I started on acoustic, and even though I've fallen in love with the electric, it seems that every now and then I always come back to where I started, the basics. The fundamentals of guitar ARE the acoustic, and that's a great place to start or stay, in my mind. You can't hide behind effects (most of the time), and it makes pretty much everything you do THAT much harder. It makes me sick to see these player wannabes that start out on electric, realize they can make a high pitched squealing noise when they turn it up to 10, then they think they can play the guitar. You give 'em an acoustic, and they don't know what to do.

Granted, there's a certain art behind the electric. Tom Morello does some crazy stuff that he'd never be able to do on an acoustic. And he's known for it. But he doesn't limit himself to that. And I think that's where a lot of people make their first mistake.