Plagarism and Guitar Geeks

I just read a blog I've been monitoring which has given me yet another unoriginal idea. I often get asked the same stupid questions about live performance and guitar playing, so I figured I would dispell the myths:

Because I play guitar does not mean I automatically love Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, Blues, etc. (Carlos Santana is not even worth mentioning in the realm of actual guitarists)

Because I play in a cover band does not mean I know every song ever written.

I do not want you to pick up my guitar and show me that you just learned the Lemon Song.

I don't care about how you played guitar as a child and still have some junky Harmony or Gibson laying around the house.

I don't care that your cousin/brother/son/daughter/mother/father/etc has/had a band.

Because I play guitar for a living does not mean I have the desire to carry it around with me and whip it out on moments notice to perform favorites to you and your friends.

Because I am a musician does not mean that I am; desperate for work, dirty, homeless, uneducated/undereducated, live below poverty level or immoral (It is possible that I know as many or more people at your country club than you do).

Because I am a musician does not mean I must appreciate all music including garbage like Phish, Al DiMeola, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Dave Matthews (most dispicable), or any cheesy smooth jazz artist.

Does this all sound caustic and offensive to you? It probably does and I apologize, but I cannot take hearing this stuff anymore. If I get followed around by another complete geek telling me about the Epiphone Les Paul copy he's got or the '71 Strat he's got locked up in a closet, or the band he was in as a kid so he 'understands and appreciates' what I doing, or how I must listen to some lost relic that the band members of Asia and Kansas both participated in recording... I will scream...

Sorry. I feel better now.

Oh one last thing that I must put in all caps...

I WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE THE SIGHS OF DISBELIEF AND EXASPERATION WHEN I AM ASKED HOW I CAN LIKE THE BEATLES AND NOT THE STONES...