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It was at the Wintergras Bluegrass festival, and the two guys at the seminar were luthiers putting together very high end custom acoustics.  They talked for a while about the nature of the wood, and how each kind of wood had to vibrate to get the guitar to sound a certain way, and that if the guitar wasn't played, the wood would "deaden."  Wood is a celular material, so even if it's dry, it is still organic in nature and will deteriorate and change as at ages.

I agree with you about solid body electrics.  I don't get the vintage craze there, other than the historic aspect of it.  Electricity does what electricity does, and has since the Big Bang.  I've asked several people about wood in solid body guitars, but I've never recieved a satisfactory answer.

Your style is "poor form."  You should give beginning guitarists a better start than that.

We all have bad habits.  The difference is that you seem to defend and wallow in yours.

Thumb on the back of the neck.

Your grip is weak.  You have your thumb hanging over the neck, rather than on the back of it.    Beginner lessons should demonstrate proper form at a minimum.  For open chords, thumb on the back of the neck.

I plan on busking this summer.  I'm not asking anyone for permission.

Stop trying to play songs for right now.  Work on making your hands strong, and your fingers nimble and articulate.  That means learn some chords, and play some scales, and do it again and again and again.

Practice every day.

And then practice.

Well, I was browsing around the local "Half Price Books" (http://www.halfpricebooks.com/) which is the greatest book store in the universe.  And what do I find?

http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/mwb/55028.shtml

And what did I pay?

$10.

Wooooo!

As an asside, I've gone through both volumes, and there is not one single Meshuggah song in the entire book, validating my theory that the Beatles are not, in fact, Meshuggah.

11 chords are 7 chords.  As are 9 and 13 chords.

Hah!  Yeah.  I'm a sucker, too. 

I teach my girls one cardinal rule about boys.  "Boys are stupid, and easy to replace."  And it's true.  Boys are a fact of life if you have daughters, particularly if you have pretty daughters (and who doesn't?)  What I taught mine was not to base her self worth on a boy, or to get so wrapped up in a boy that she would make sacrifices of her own life for it.  Boys are, after all, stupid, and easy to replace.    If the one you have doesn't work out, there will be a new one on the next bus, guaranteed.  Since she has that attitude, "boy problems" are self correcting.

Indeed.

Spoil them when they're little.  That way when you say no, it's meaningful.

You can not steer your kids.  You can only point them in the right direction, and aid them with the occasional course correction.

Set high expectations.  Ensure that they understand what their responsibilities are.  Do not let them slack at school.  It will impact them for the rest of their days.

Respect them as people.  Kids are not automatons.  They are little people with their own ideas and agendas.

No child ever learned a thing from your mistakes.  They're going to make their own whether you like it or not.  I teach mine from a young age that there is no sympathy for self inflicted wounds.

Never do for them something they can do for themselves.

Always let them know you love them, and that they are always safe with you.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
~Benjamin Franklin

I've had the opposite happen.  I went to see Lisa Bohnahm, and ended up seeing Tori Amos by accident.

Lisa roxors.  Tori is zzzzzzzzzz........

Don't ask me how I got the two confused.

A genuine Gibson is going to cost more that $225.  The Epis are great, though, and will cost you about that.