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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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And, you? What made you pick up the guitar and then made you continue to pick it up?

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I knew I was a musician by age 4, after hearing Boots Randolph wailin' on a sax, but I didn't get that Sears Silvertone / Alamo amp till I was 10. Formed my first band when I was 12. Played brass instruments in high school. Thought I was pretty good till I moved to Dallas, where there was some hot-shot named Stevie Ray Vaughn that was gettin' a lot of attention in Deep Ellum. I went and checked him out, and after that I stopped playin' for years. It should've inspired me, but for whatever reason, I just quit and started a family. I've never even done any serious skills practice since.

On a side note fwiw, I still have that 1951 Alamo three tube amp in working condition, right over there. I turn it on, and after a few initial pops and hisses, it comes up quiet, and waits for me to touch a string. I opened it up one time to check the caps and the wiring, and it was an awesome rat's nest of point-to-point solder connections.

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Nice. I still have my first Yamaha GC and have never sold a guitar. (That's amazing for someone in my position!) I've sold amps and pedals, but never a guitar. I've given a few guitars away along the journey, but never sold one.

I've never even pawned a guitar.

Formal music education was "forced" on me by my parents, but I do not regret that and I enjoyed learning. I've taken formal lessons in french horn and trumpet, for example. I've taken piano lessons, percussion lessons, and even some informal lessons on how to play a concert and pedal harp.

I can pick up most instruments and play something that sounds vaguely familiar. Familiar enough to fool a layperson, at least.

But, the guitar will always be my true love. Classical guitar will always be my not-so-secret pleasure. For so many years, I've put in an average of 2 hours per day - of diligent practice. No, not noodling around, but deliberate practice.

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Do you have a "#1 favorite guitarist of all time"?

Can I make a request for a future FNGT? Kath stretched out with "Free Form Guitar". EVH did "Eruption". Do you have something like that, something that shows off a chunk of your skills?