I learned in grade school and went on to study it in college for a year. Played Sax in some ska and soul bands after high school. To be honest I don't really enjoy playing it very much. Playing saxophone takes over your whole body and is limited (generally) to just playing one note at a time.

I found as I matured as a musician that I really liked being able to express harmonies which guitar was pretty suitable for. I wish I had learned piano, maybe I'll buy one for my kid to play and get a chance to pick it up. I have a variety of other instruments as well now that I think of it, but none that I play as well as saxophone or guitar, bongos, flutes (wood and metal), harmonicas, slide whistles, glockenspiel and probably something else that I'm forgetting.

I'm actually a pretty decent blues and soul saxophonist, but a piss poor jazz player. I'm a rock when it comes to soul guitar playing, not that it's hard, mostly a matter of good taste and listening skills.

That fender amp was designed by the guy that went on to design mesa boogie amps, I believe it was the only model he designed for fender. I think it's one of the finest fender tube amps and was lucky to have it land in my lap when I was in high school. It kicks the living shit out of fender twins on tone and versatility.

I was pretty uptight about guitar tone. I only use analog gear. When I played in a bands I was always on a campaign to get guitarists to stop using those big digital effects boards and solid state amps. I always play the heaviest strings I cam get on my electric guitars and disable whammy bars by hammering a chunk off wood into the bottom of the mechanism. I would really like to get a big heavy Gibson electric someday, it would probably get me playing again.