[Rick Lee]

There's never been a better time to start playing guitar. There's not much guitar in current popular music, so that sucks. But you can get a really nice starter guitar and amp for next to nothing. Every song you could ever want to learn is dissected and explained on Youtube and other sites, you can find isolated guitar tracks of your favorite songs and every band and style of music has online chat boards like Pelican, where you can discuss the nitty gritty of songs, gear and techniques.

I'm only 45 and, when I started, it was press play, pause, rewind, play, pause, etc. That's how I had to learn songs. A few times a year the next song I wanted to learn was TAB'ed out in the various guitar mags, and sometimes you could find the TAB books for entire albums, though they were never 100% accurate. Now, you can find everything and it's usually free. Doesn't get any easier. You just have to put in the hours.