I stopped playing in the early 1980s cuz after 15 years of gigging somwhere along the way it had stopped being fun. Sold everything - acoustics, electrics, amps whatever but one old Tele which I kept for sentimental reasons and stashed it under the bed.
What got me back was in the early 1990s I used to do minor repairs and setups on the guitars that came into a friend's pawn shop before they went up for sale. One day he got in a 1976 Guild D-25. I went over to see what it needed. Took it home to do a few things on it and couldn't put it down. The owner let me have it for $200. Although I still had bandophobia, I started backing folk and blues singers and sitting in with bands. Never looked back.
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"You start off playing guitars to get girls & end up talking with middle-aged men about your fingernails" - Ed Gerhard
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