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Hi,
I've not been on a guitar forum for a long time. I'm 58 now, I don't keep as well as I did, so no longer in a band or gigging.
I'm very near housebound . I've been through serious problems with my Heart. I would like somewhere I can discuss guitar with likeminded people. I hate confrontation.
Hopefully this place will be supportive and inspiring, not competitive and abusive. I've had mixed experiences in the past.
I used the name Goatbreath way back, I might catch up with a few folk who I've not spoke to in a decade or so.
I've been playing 40 years now, but just do what I do. Some of it probably wrongly or at least unorthodox, but it's not harming anyone.

Hey Goatbreath and welcome to the forum

Certainly not going to get any negative judgement from this forum.

We just love guitar and music in general.

So what do you do now? Write music? Play for your own enjoyment?

Hi, I play for my own enjoyment, sometimes write music. I find Garageband useful as a sketchpad. I go through different spells, exploring different things, I try to enjoy the guitar.
I was in too much of a hurry when I was younger . The journey can be the really interesting part, I find guitar a good place to use my mental energy. I don't have as much energy as I did though.

Nearly all my Electrics are modified in some way. lol .I've gathered a fair old collection of guitars over the years, but none are really vintage. A few are a bit too heavy now, but I'm too sentimental to part with.

I don't do much jamming with others anymore if any. I still work on my playing, although I tend to work more on being me than learning the work of others these days.

I am unfortunately an absolutely terrible singer and I have tried , I did / do write music. Sometimes lyrics, I was always more of a sideman./ guitarist.
Although I've formed my own band in the past ,which was more of a comedy thing, but getting the right singer was difficult.
The last singer I worked with, I had to stop because of my Health. He is out doing so much that we don't have much time anymore. We still keep in touch and are good friends, he is in a different Town / City.

I love Music in Multiple Genres too. I'm not tribal about it. I think Music often picks us rather than us picking it, if that makes sense.