When I first started to play the guitar it wasn't until a few months later that I got the knock off Stratocaster in tune. Of course that did not stop me from plucking the strings now and then.   I started off practicing picking the strings because everything else sound really bad. I didn't have a huge musical influence back then. Only what I herd on the radio and a few old records that a swiped from the parents. I did not own and Cd's or tapes but the music channels were starting to get big on TV. I started to listen to lot of blues guitar. There was something about that muddy dirty playing that just sounded so good to me. Of co... [Read More]