"Heck Yeh!"

When am I a guitar player/ musician... officially? When I go into a store and look like a musician? But how about when someone asks if I'm a musician? What is the definition? George Harrison had said he never considered himself to be a great guitarist. At what dollar level are you a musician then... do you have to earn a living at it to be one? Obviously not. If someone had asked Muddy Waters at the time, who supposedly self-taught himself slide guitar in one year, if he was a musician... he probably would have said (as a kid)..."Heck yeh! You're lookin' at one". I am pretty sure at the time that he had made little or no money at it, at that point. So it all seems to be what you think you are, not what others think. George could think he was anything he wanted... because everyone still knew he was George Harrison. It's up to us to define ourselves... so go out today... even if you run a car wash... if you can do a great Van Halen version of the opening to Eruption... when asked... say "Heck yeh! You're lookin' at one".