Just picked up my first... Guitar

Bass player here but also have a acoustic guitar. I have a few basses my favorite is a 1970 guild. Started playing when I was 15 got into a Grateful Dead cover band and played many bars and clubs in my state. It was always strange walking out on the stage and hear people cheering. I’d always look around thinking maybe someone famous showed up at the place. Had loads of fun, expanded from mainly Grateful Dead to Beatles, blues, throw in some modern stuff and when the crowd got to a certain point of intoxication you play roadhouse blues as the doors played it. Always made you seem better than we were. At my previous job I was working on some heavy equipment and my coworker list hold of a couple hundred pound shaft I got two fingers crushed between the metal shaft and a concrete floor. Couldn’t pick up the bass for a while. I’m relearning how to play without using the ring finger on my left hand. It’s coming ok just gotta get speed down. I still have one surgery to go that I had put off but had it scheduled then when the virus hit it got cancelled. It’s ok now though, I just play for fun. Even if I don’t get back to where I was it’s all good. As long as I have fun and I’ve figured out working the fret board holding back one finger is very possible. Anyway didn’t mean to turn it into a bummer, I’m not complaining I’m just explaining my guitar story. Use caution though guitar collecting can become just as addicting and expensive as watches. I hope you stick with it, it’s a lot of fun. Learn those chord progressions and twelve bar blues. You can get to the point where you sit down and jam with anyone. My biggest regret is not buying a Hofner bass, it’s that bass that has a violin shaped body that McCartney played with the Beatles and still uses it, that was my grail bass and I never got it.

Cool stuff. That will be fun to get into. I have a strong desire to play the mandolin, I jammed with some guys who were big into bluegrass I was on bass, the others were two mandolins and a banjo. That was a good time. Good luck with that it’s an overlooked instrument I’ve heard some very cool sounds emitting from them.

I started when I was in early highschool (10 years ago) with guitar lessons for about 2 years. Mostly listened to folk; Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Iron and Wine, The National, and the music I wrote back then mirrored this. Really disliked using picks so I focused purely on fingerstyle. Got decent enough to perform at small shows and my all time high performing at my highschool graduation.
I think university sort of killed my soul for music for a while, as I receded from performing or talking about my music to anyone, but I am back to just playing around.
Now I've fallen into jazz, R&B/hip-hop, and producing. If you are bored you can listen through some of my stuff (scroll down to skip through my embarrassing attempts at other genres 🤦).
Thinking back I wish I had started out with a jazz foundation, as I now realize how important it is.
Also want to learn how to play drums and bass; but one thing at a time is probably best. 🙄