mtv. van halen's fancy hair & jumping, slash's smoking cigarette, dave navarro's tattoed fingers with black nail polish, billy corgan's nasal whine on a tight leather pants
in real life:
i went for the guitar because i can't sing. everyone in music class(back in grade school) was required to sing then...the teacher gave a condition that its either you sing or play an instrument---the guitar was the obvious easy choice(due to its availablity and plain coolness)
i played bass during highschool because everybody wants to be the guitar rockstar and the bass playing was mostly overlooked and underrated. but since my brother started to play the bass and became famous with it, i shifted to the guitar.
to sum it up: its something done for the animals. back in school, it was the escapegoat for a lot of reasons. it's because i was a chicken to academics or sports. now, its all for the chicks, skunks, beavers & pussies (like nate said) 😎
got my fender guitars when i got a real job