[renaudg]

>Anyway, anything that gets people playing guitar is, in my opinion, a great thing. We live in a golden age of guitar equipment. I don't think it can honestly get much better than it is right now. It's an amazing time to be a guitar player and incredible options are available at amazing prices.

It sure is a great time for guitar equipment, as the digital revolution has made its way there too.

But being a guitar player is also increasingly lonely : https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/the-s...

And it's arguably an opportunity cost for a kid to be pouring so much effort today learning the iconic (but tired) instrument of the boomer generation, when they could be breaking new musical ground instead, mastering Ableton's Push for instance. But to each their own, of course.

[wintermutestwin]

In the late 80s it sure seemed like the guitar was doomed. On one hand there was new wave with its synths and on the other were the guitar "gods" who wanked on with amazing technical precision making amazingly pedantic music. Then in the 90s the guitar and rock was reborn and suddenly cool again. It will come back and it won't be tired anymore. There are so many things that the guitar has barely hinted at in the past that will resurface as innovation. In the meantime, you can learn the guitar AND new tech. Besides, there will always be the draw of impressing a member of the opposite sex at a party by picking up a guitar. You just don't have that with "check out my latest drum programming, etc...

[selykg]

I mean, music is music, play what inspires you.

Calling the guitar a boomer generation instrument is odd.

I suspect Martin would argue they were well ahead of the curve, since they've been creating guitars for over a hundred years.