Really cut my baby teeth with an acoustic and then in 7th and 8th grade played my 30$ acoustic at recess and lunch until the nuns proclaimed during a 3 class monthly assembly "There will be no more guitar playing at recess or lunch".
I got into keyboards (thankfully) at 15 in bands and such. Learning that form of theory greatly aided my future fretboard knowledge and more importantly being a percussive, off the beat instrument, informed a nice right hand pocket swing.
I still played acoustic during high school but being in rock garage bands I picked up band mates rigs and enjoyed the straight to the nervous system electric stuff.
I won't bore you remaining readers with the next 40 years of acoustic electric division because I love both. Currently I have 16 guitars - half and half. But the last 4 or 5 years has been favored for the awesome tone and disciplined song structure that only an acoustic can give.
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