Thanks Da pirate, until I discovered youtube guitar teachers I could barely string a couple of chords together. Whilst I am still very average, at least now I can play a few songs that I loved growing up. I tend to watch someone play online first to get an idea where on the fretboard to play then go to the guitar room and give it a go myself. It takes me a while to work it out but eventually I tend to get pretty close. 

 No I did that as an 11 year old and hated every minute of it. I used to catch the bus from Thornlie into town and do lessons at Musgroves in Murray st upstairs back in the early 70;s. Did it for a couple of years then stopped as soon as I was allowed to by my parents. They were teaching me classical while I wanted to play Led Zep, Stooges and the like. I played a little in my teens and bought my first electric back then, but sadly never spent any time on it as back then I was always playing soccer or fishing. My guitars stayed in the shed for over 20 years untouched until a mate I had shown a few chords to back in my late 20's decided to get a band together for his 40th (I was 50 at the time and hadn't played a note in 30 years). I had fun at the rehearsal and slowly my spare time spent reading every post on fishwrecked was gradually replaced by watching how to play "xyz" guitar videos on youtube.

I got the guitar bug and had so much fun playing songs from my youth that I haven't stopped since. I still avoid theory but know that to progress my playing to the next level I need to know a bit more (or at the least try and re-learn all the stuff I knew as an 11 your old that I have completely forgotten now.)

I'm hoping its just a temporary shift in my passions and I will find a balance between the two sooner rather than later, hence why this Exmouth trip is a bit of a must do.

 Good to be back.