I suppose I should elaborate more, I started playing brass age, 7 or 8, I played a baritone, then I started playing euphonium, in our schools band.
In the last year of primary school I started playing in the town junior band, and in secondary school started playing tuba, (a half sized tuba). and played this in the school band, as well as in the town junior band, (the junior band mostly played in fetes and such, and played a couple of competitions.
a few years later I started playing a full sized tuba in the towns senior band, (which is people aged roughly 16 - well there is no upper age limit). we played almost entirely competitions, area competitions, and national competitions etc, I also went on tour with that band twice to France and once to Germany.
sadly my guitar playing career hasn't been nearly a illustrious, the only place that I've played have been football clubs and cricket clubs, and arts venues, (that's football and cricket club clubhouses, not stadiums). -I mostly played bass guitar in bands anyway. biggest gig there being to a couple of hundred people.
Probably the most successful (guitar based) band that I was in was a band that toured in Germany, (shortly after I left said band).
I had quite a musical bunch of friends in school, the guy who was in the band mentioned above was also in the brass bands that I was in (though he was a drummer), he went on to be in a band and played a few gigs at the Glastonbury festival.
another friend who I was at school with now plays in a rock band and regularly tours (the world). which is epically cool...
as for getting an instrument out today, I live in a shared house, so, kind of limits the amount that I can play trombone!, -even though one of my house mates (who plays and teaches guitar) is always playing and singing etc ready for doing gigs, or ready for when he's recording. though generally guitar tends to be a bit quieter.
nowadays I probably spend more time building amps than playing any kind of instrument through an amp. (which is a shame), but there you go.
(just occurred to me that I've been playing instruments (either brass of guitar for 20 years now). suppose I should actually sit down, practise and get good at playing something!
edit- and I always wanted to play the trumpet, if only because it's a lot smaller, a lot lighter and a lot easier to carry about than a tuba! sadly after 12 years of playing tuba, (and 8 year of playing no brass properly), I doubt I could pick up a trumpet and learn now.