thats how i started. i was fortunate enough to have the internet (ultimate guitar dot com) when i started playing though. after a a few months, a friend of mine who was in a band at the time told me that his guitarist quit and asked if i wanted to join his metal band..
a few weeks later, i'm on stage at the whiskey-a-go-go opening for some (at the time) big names looking like a damn fool. (as blood runs black, the faceless, beneath the massacre)
i miss high school...