Gone electric

I've been wanting to get an electric guitar for a while. Probably ever since I got an acoustic but I figured I first give this thing a try with a cheapish guitar before I splurge on something more fancy. But after playing (again) with a nice Fender Stratocaster that one of my friends owns I realized there was even some therapeutic value to going electric.
The Strat has an awesome neck and the strings are lighter than the ones on my acoustic so it's very light to play and very friendly for the hands and muscles that attempt to form chords and so on. In short, I was sold.
Add to this the sliding Canadian dollar which will probably cause prices of guitars to rise soon and I had a solid case to justify the purchase of a new guitar.
I've made many trips to various music stores to try out gear so I knew pretty much what I wanted to buy. The Fender necks fit me well for some reason and the Telecaster has everything I like in a guitar. It's a simple workmanlike instrument with a great sound and it can be used to play almost any kind of music.

I hadn't really planned to come home with anything because I'd never seen the color I wanted in a store but as luck would have it Long & McQuade had a Standard Telecaster in sunburst in a box so I ended up bringing it home last Monday.
I ended up with a Vox DA20CL amplifier and I'm blown away by the number of sounds and volume it produces. It's a total hoot. It has two aux ports (one specifically for mic) so I can plug in an iPod or something along those lines to attempt to play along or my son can plug in his Roland TD-3 V-drum set to attempt a father/son jam session. The latter is not really advisable, we simply aren't good enough ... okay, I'm not good enough but I hope that we'll be able to do this in the not so distant future.

For the two short days that I've had it the Tele/Vox combo have been a total blast although I can't say I've done much serious practicing because I find myself tinkering with all the amazing sounds the guitar and amp can produce. At some point I hope I'll get over that and then I can get a bit more serious again.

My arm is feeling quite good at the moment, even if it was all in my head it was well worth it because the arrival of this marvellous combo has made aches disappear.

Next time I go for a lesson I'll bring the Tele instead of my acoustic to see what Agi thinks about the instrument. I assume he'll approve because he is a big Fender fan himself. He plays a nice made in Japan Strat which looks like it's been with him for quite some time. He mentioned it's got special pickups and it sounds great to me. Lovely instrument but it helps Agi can play it in a way I can only hope to approach one day. I'm curious to hear what he can get out of my Tele.

I guess this is it for today's ramblings, time to tinker with the Tele. I hope my Tele will look as pleasantly lived in as Agi's Strat one day and that I'll be able to make it sound as nice as he does.