When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.
It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.
The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
I don't recall getting a first guitar.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.