How many kids do you see drooling over a guitar player? Not many, most are going gaga for singers and DJs like Deadmau5.

No the guitar isn't going to die, but it has become the instrument of the older generation as far as pop music is concerned, and the sales numbers at Gibson, Fender, Ibanez and others show that.

Even country music doesn't have the guitar solos that it used to have.

So instead of being "king of the heap" in pop music like the sax, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, accordion and violin before that, the guitarist will just blend in.

I love playing guitar, but I can see it's popularity is on the decline and I'm not going to fool myself.

BTW, for the guys who thing guitar is sexier than drums, think again. I was in large bands for decades, and the drummer always got more girls than the guitar player. wink

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