Guitar playing - How Could You Ease Your Mind by Playing the Rock Guitar

My professional skills as a medical doctor have nothing to do with my true passion: the guitar. Ok? Maybe it s no so simple matter. I deal everyday with suffering and illness, so my mind sometimes simply seems to be almost blowing out. I really need something to ease my mind! But I m a passionate rock and roll listener since... well, since long, long time ago, I can t remember for sure, but certainly before I became a doctor. And this passion started, I guess, when I first listened the "Appetite for Destruction" album. Oh, yes, I m talking about the good old Guns n Roses. The CD I struggled to buy (at that time Cds were way too expensive). When I was almost driving my neighborhood crazy, I saved some money again and bought the Metallica s "Black Album". Oh, poor brazilian neighbors! Nobody was used to listen those loud screaming guitars, the angry vocals, the smashing drums around here. It was "lambada", "samba" time (as always...), kinds of music that were just unbearable to me. But I kept listening to that "angry people and devil s" music louder and louder. Then came the second revolution. Always saving some hardly earned money, I bought my first beloved guitar. Ok, it was a cheap one, brazilian electric guitar, but to me it was almost the Gibson Les Paul that was in Slash s hands. It was a blue Giannini Super Sonic brand new, 2 simple pickups, with a small 40 watts amplifier and a yellow second-hand Boss Over Drive effect pedal. This set I will never, never forget. As every single guitar player at the beginning, I quickly realized that playing the hard rock guitar was not that piece of cake. Of course, first things first. Ritchie Blackmore s "Smoke on the Water" was easy. Tommy Iommi s "Iron Man", I had no problems, but I had to practice very hard to make something that sounded more like the Rock and Roll that I love so much. People sometimes just don t understand that a guitar player, better saying, an electric guitar player who loved rock and roll simply was unable to play "bossa nova" at the acoustic guitar. It seems that only at the time I graduated as medical doctor, I was able to explain that asking for a rock guitar player to try some "bossa nova" was the same as asking a neurosurgeon to perform a cardiac surgery. Both of them are doctors, but each one has its own field of expertise. Finally, especially at the medical school, and in my professional practice, I really feel the need to listen, and play some loud rock and roll. It seems that all my day-by-day pressure simply disappears when I m playing my guitar. All my worries, my death-fighting deceptions, all that pressure every doctor is submitted, completely vanishes in the air at the first tone of good rock and roll guitar playing. Nothing can bring me such a peace of mind! I am a professional medicine doctor, the face I use to pay my bills. And I m an amateur but passionate guitar player. Fortunately I don t have to pay my bills with my guitar skills And finally, I have a small website about... Hot Guitars! (Nope, It is NOT about medicine at all!) Check out: www.hotguitars.org