Originally Posted by axemansean
Get an acoustic and learn the chords and scales. Don't become someone's slave and start playing cover songs. Learn the structure of music and create your own. Go to
www.music123.com or
www.musiciansfriend.com and do a search for acoustics. You can get a very good one for under $100, heck my 12 string only cost me $235.
I understand your point completely, but I do encourage people to play whatever makes them happy. I couldn't write a song if my life depended on it, but I get a huge boost out of playing old Beatles and Stones. Then one day my friends (band I guess, but not a serious one) and I decided to try some Who and really let loose...... I turned my Crate up as loud and distorted as I could get it for Won't Get Fooled Again and I was in another world playing it. Then my ears were ringing for three days after I came down from the high, but my point is unless you're doing it to make money, there's no bad reason to cover (unless you interpret a classic song into garbage, then I have no respect for you).
Rock on and keep it real :rockon: