Oh yeah, although I deserted drums for guitar in about 1970ish.
I moved from West London to Hertfordshire in 1975 and found myself recruited into two bluegrass bands, but when I turned up with my D35, I was told that they wanted me in the bands but had a guitarist and wanted me to play mandolin - this is my current love :
and the other wanted a Dobro:
I've since upgraded both but these are my instruments now: