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Also glad to know you.
Like James writes: UK? or is there a Chester in the USA?

I do agree 100%, but a lot of young players, love to run before they walk. If they have enough money, they buy it anyway. It happened in the early seventies, my brother, at least 10 musicians, or better "would be" musicians, wanted and buyed a wha wha, and they all had and used distortion. This was probably under the Jimi Hendrix influence. So the "effects" problem is not new.
Why are brands like Fender, Line 6 even Vox producing today amps with all different kinds of effects on board. This is a fact you can't neglect. Besides, using effects became a common thing, and I agree that they should learn to play starting, like you write. Young people are "exposed" too much to materials, we didn't even know 10 years ago. Cell phones, is a great example. They are no longer glad to have a cell phone without camera, and all the extra features. This is in fact why I wrote this. THERE ARE TOO MANY INFLUENCES FROM OUTSIDE. Same problem with an electric guitar, how many different guitars are available, just mentioning Fender. It is more and more difficult to follow trends. 10 years now = 30 years in the past.

Craig
Yesterday evening I was listening to the Bilboard top 100 1966, and I heard at least 2 songs,that could be placed in the seventies, disco "avant la lettre"

JCURNAL: I use this function often when the song is written in # or b, like Eb, or E#. Songs are often written in function of the "singer", or written on piano.
Transposing is a wonderful item here, you can play the transposed song, almost exact like the original. You will be able to find that 95% of the songs you transpose are as good as the original.
It is just a matter of being busy with + or - semitones, I am sure you find what you're looking for.
I considered this transposing thing as a VIRTUAL CAPO.

Detman, as far I can see, more and more companies start to make an hybrid amp? I remember me that my brother had a Kustom amp, a head and a box, pretty big, and powerful.
I think sooner or later there will be more and more of these amps.Vox has also a new "hybrid amp" I don't know who was making the first hybrid amp, I think Fender, with the cybertwin.
If you start thinking about "how is it possible to create an amp using tubes, providing us a warmer sound, and at the same time, digital giving us 100 different sounds" well you get crazy. I respect those guys. I still remember the day I received my Cybertwin, nobody knew a lot about this new kind of amp, being probably a start of a new generation in the amp world. Yes, using effect floorboards, some "patches" showed in their display: tube. I think more and more companies will produce these amps. BUT will they all be accepted by sworn tube lovers?

Tibernius, I love to play using effects, I have now a kind of "mini studio" to record, a BOSS BR600, but I still can't play, even after finding the manual in Dutch. I think to go back to the music store, and I hope to put soon some songs on myspace or youtube.
ELECTRIC: how many chordians use their guitar pure, and how many with effects?

Dolly, here is what I found. My grandmother stayed in CONGO, a couple of years, 1924 - 1928, when she was pregnant from my father. She had also an instrument, made of wood, hollow inside and 6 or more thin metal "small, thin bars" The Africans used it by pushing on a metal bar (don't know if its the correct word) and releasing it, giving a tone pretty similar like a mouth bow.
Isn't it amazing how inventive and creative people are. This is what I found:

. Cave paintings in southern France dated to around 15,000 BC, show a bow being used as a musical instrument, so this use certainly has a long history. Musical bows are still used in a number of cultures today, almost all over the world. The berimbau, a musical bow from Brazil, is quickly gaining players worldwide as a result of its association with the game of capoeira. In the United States, the musical bow was apparently introduced by African slaves. Today, it is
primarily found in the Appalachian Mountains, where it is called a mouthbow or mouth bow.
source: wikipedia.
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GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: A "KILLER" INSTRUMENT

Toney, I continue like I did before, I am who I am, and I discovered so many nice people like you and so many others. It is so crazy, I am soft AND hard. It is maybe strange, I was hard and correct while still working, and my private life was a mess, because of being too soft.
Soft for me is: not afraid to hide feelings, this happened a lot also when working. It's like a contradiction to use the 2. I showed feelings to people, with the intention that they knew they were not the only ones. It really helped a lot of people. Assertive is on the top of my list as is helping people and learn a lot.
Lieven (typical name here, and, it means (this is absurd: the beloved one)

I wrote already that I have a Marshall Valvestate, I use this one often to try my floorboards, like a zoom 8080, or the line6 POD XT live. My all time favourite amp is the Fender Cybertwin, not cheap
but worth every cent.
Also: a Marshall AS100D, for electro-acoustic guitars. I use this amp a lot to have the pure guitar sound, an electric guitar provides us. I often use on this one a little device: Korg ToneWorks PX4D Pandora Guitar and Bass Multi-Effects Processor with 158 effect types ranging from realistic amp sounds. BUT THE BEST PART IS: a rhythm section, drums, allowing you to play alone and to follow the rhythm. You can change the speed, type of rhythm, using different programmed amps, and a lot of effects on board. ALL THIS IN A DEVICE not much bigger than a digital camera.
An acoustic PX4A is also available, this one I don't have.
If you want, you can listen to the sounds using the acoustic & electric Pandora. Google tone works Pandora and go to the website.
Amazing what this little thing can do
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GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: OPEN THE BOX OF PANDORA