[Rick Lee]

The only difference I've noticed in my fingering ability is that I have to put my wedding band on my right hand when I play, or else I bang up the neck with it. I haven't been married that long, so it's still an adjustment.

Also, the Internet has severely degraded my ability to learn by ear. In the old days it was press play, pause, rewind, play, pause and that was the only way to learn except for when the song you wanted was featured in TAB in one of the guitar mags. Nowadays I don't even bother sitting down to learn by ear. I just look it up on Youtube or Google the TAB for it. Although I do think I can pick stuff up faster with less effort now. But man, back in the day my ears were trained.

BTW, Ed used the shark guitar on the cover of Women and Children First for recording most of the first couple albums. Everyone thinks it was the Frankenstrat, but he only used that for stuff he needed a whammy bar for. There are some real cool fan replicas on the Internet.