is the dvd of The Wrestler of the Better Vid...sorry lost the plot there.

A guitar driven prince album has me very excited!!!

Do it.

It will take a couple of years to get good, but depending on your practise level you can speed that up. But what you will find is that you can have a lof of fun on guitar even when you arn't spectacular.

It's also worth noting that it takes all types in music. Like bucket owns Cobain on the guitar in so many ways it's almost insane to mention them in the same sentance, yet cobaib wrote a lot of world famous and loved songs. So what i'm saying is it's awesome that bucket inspires you...but don't get upset when you discover that playing at his speed is a very hard thing to accomplish...music will have a place for your skills too.

People will tell you to get an accoustic then graduate to an electric. That's the normal route. The recomend it because its harder to fret on an accoustic so it strenthens your hands well for when you play electric. There is probably other reasons as well. But it's not necessary. I learn't on electric just cos I don't give a fuck about accoustics. They're fun for an occasional play around a fire, but I was born to play Jungle not Used to Love her (although they're both great songs!). ANYWAY....all i'm saying is just cos most people go accoustic first doesn't mean you have to....

My advice would be spend a decent amount of money on a guitar to start up with but don't go silly. Two points worth considering are:

1. The best guitar in the world doesn't make you the guitarist who uses it. Seems obvious...but a bunch of people run off to buy a Les Paul cos slash has it, or a Jem cos Vai uses it or whatever....and while at the end of the day their specific tone will be easier to mimick with those interests...what seperates you from them at the moment is a ton of playing time and skill - so if you spend thousands on an instrument up front you won't get better for it...you risk damaging it before you learn how to care for it properly (and just through too much clunky crunch time) and you won't know enough which style guitar suits your hands (not always what your heros play it turns out). So save that purchase for a bit farther down the road.

2. That said. DO NOT go out and buy a piece of shit guitar. The fastest way to quit guitar is to own an unplayable piece of shit. I've seen it happen to a ton of my friends. This because....learning will be HARD on such a guitar...you can't make it sound properly, it'll buzz,  mute when it shouldn't or most problematic....not hold tuning properly. Developing an ear for tuning and playing is something that's important and comes over time...fastest way to imede your progress is to make it so you can't tell if you are in tune properly, or worse, even if you can tell, just can't ever be in tune for more than a chord or two at a time.

So yeah...i'd by an electric or accoustic according to where your passion lies in terms of overall sounds. I'd be prepared for the idea that guitar is a passion that develops over time. You wont be good for a while but hang in there - it's totally worth it when you are. I'd not break my bank but I wouldn't go too cheap either. Spend some time in stores assessing the price range and buy something firmly in the middle.

Solos and all? That's not someone who sucks at guitar. Yes their are harder pieces by far, but I wouldn't call the solos on those albums as entry level.

I feel there are certain artists that are accepted as untouchable and anyone who says they don't like them is open to ridicule from others. The question becomes if that situation is based on fact, or on something else such peer pressure and elitism.

Go to a music group and say you don't like Dylan or Page. Go to a film group and say you don't like hitchcock or that citizan kane wasn't the best film made. You will be mocked.

There are reasons why those artists are revered for sure, but at the same time, there are deeper human reasons and forces at play as to why certain artists are respected than just their actual tallent I think.

maybe there is something wrong with me...but I think Contraband and Chinese Democracy are both great records.

Just because some of the band members used to work together and choose not to anymore, doesn't mean we have to take sides or dislike one type of sound because we like another.

Two albums that I've enjoyed more than most of the stuff out there!