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I've been playing the guitar for over 10 years. I started after messing around on a friend's rusty broken electric guitar at a time when my dad's copy of the Money for Nothing album (a Dire Straits compilation) had caught my attention. I had never heard any music before that had enthused and inspired me enough to learn an instrument until hearing MK on a guitar. His alternative tone and structure to previously heard plectrum based solos awoke me to another form of guitar soloing and I was hooked from then on. Stubbornly I wanted to play the guitar no other way and with other forms of guitar having little or no appeal to me. The first tablature song book I bought was Sultans of Swing after just a few weeks of playing. You can imagine the disjointed, badly timed, poorly fretted effort such a novice would have made. I was no exception and for some reason I was blind to how awful it really was. I thought I was playing really well but video footage of the time doesn't support that belief. That self-delusion was actually a good thing to stop me getting depressed and giving up but a bad thing for friends and family who had to endure it. 10 years on, never having had a formal lesson, I enjoy taking the style I'm so fond of and making music of my own. The style is also responsible for my general interest in music today. I've even occasionally play guitar with a plectrum contrary to my stubborn early days.