Hi guys. Feeling like cr#p tonight. Got home fairly early from work today after listening to my ipod most of the day. Loads of great stuff on it, including some of the sounds which I've downloaded from this here fine site.

Inspired by all you guys after listening to some of the REALLY REALLY good bits, I sit down, switch on the Monitors, plug the guitar in, and...............nothing. Absolutely bugger all. I've kinda got myself deeply entrenched within a dry zone, where anything that I try to get to grips with sounds bloody awful.

Now.........I realise that at my advanced age of 43, I'm never gonna be able to shred anywhere near what I want to be able to do, I take that for granted and have probably realised this some time ago, but I'm feeling I'm just stuck in rut with nowhere to go.

So I say to myself, 'no problem, go for the tones you like, slow down to something like a slow David Gilmour with feeling etc'.

Do any of you guys ever get like this? How do you get out of it? Do you just beat the crap out of the dog or do you just put the guitar down and let it be for a week or two until you miss it so much you just gotta start again?