She is 9 and I am so stoked - today I bought her a $300 Washburn guitar and a $100+ Roland Cube amp with 4 effects... Most notably Distortion She plays classic piano and loves singing the current girlie rock hits. When my dad showed her Smoke on the Water in Germany she was wow-ed. So I hope she picks it up here

But if I have to be totally honest, I must admit I might enjoy it even more than she would. Just hooked it up and played for 3+ hours. I tore a string and fingertips are raw now; I have not played for 15+ years. But I am very satisfied because I resurrected one of my (music and lyrics) songs from my punk rock group in 8th grade. When we were recording it there was a big earthquake, it was crazy, people running on the streets in underwear and stuff... we kept playing... on the 9th floor What times!

I am going to teach my daughter the song. Without the lyrics, which were about spring: sun, birds, and a rotting corpse under a tree in the melting snow I'll tell her to write her own lyrics; she actually has a buch of them ready so maybe she can even get a running start

Cheers
Ivo