I attended the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society’s meeting in 1998 and Tommy Immanuel and Chet Atkins came in the lounge where I was sitting with a guitar and began practicing and discussing what they were to play for the gig on Saturday night. There was not five of us in the room. They went over what they were to play and I just sat there astounded...they asked me if I wanted to join them...no way and just shook my head. That was my defining moment with a guitar.
You know, I like to think that we're all just people, God's creation and all of that, but I would have had trouble just stringing words together coherently in that situation, let alone playing guitar.