I'm a 48 year old self-absorbed guitarist, only I've taken it a step further, I'm not in a band or jamming with others. About 15 years back after I'd gotten into synths my creative road went into ambient music and I wasn't able to apply my guitar skills into that genre as easily as with synths so the guitar took a back seat about ten years ago.
About three to four years ago I discovered the TV show Becker in reruns on KDOC and what caught my ear was the blues guitar playing in the theme tune and appears in the show sparingly. So I
pulled my Charvel strat out and noodled with it just doing bluesy
riffing while surfing the internet for a year, then I received a POD
2.3 for a birthday present a couple years back and that thing
compelled the rock guitarist back out of me because it does that
so damn good! It also does the Carlton, Scofield, Holdsworth thing too, not to mention any kind of jazz or blues sound and its cool with a slide as well, its very addictive. I even managed to do a semi-bluesy ambient tune called(plug) "Lost in Decision" finding a place for guitar in my ambient musings. The guitar/POD combo are also good for abstract sounds and sound design too that can show up as samples in synth patches. Lets just say you won't find me on a golf course, tennis court, or in a bowling alley.
Steve