I took lessons for about a year from Mike E's in LaVergne. The teacher was actually pretty good. Taught me alot. And once a month would teach me a song I wanted to know. I should have stuck with it...but I like playing the drums better. I still mess around with my acoustic and have a epi dot (gibson 335 copy), I almost bought a gibson 335, glad I didnt because it would be sitting in its case like the Epi.
Steve