This gave me a chuckle for the memory it brought up. Quick precursor is I went to a "public school" where folks could get thrown out for lying... anyway, while there this one guy said this and that (mostly playing for Dokken), and had an electric guitar that I do not think anyone ever saw him play... I remember once he had given an album to someone as "his work" and about a year later, another classmate had found the album (was local band) and the "guitar player" was nowhere to be found in the info.
The comedy (and why I was laughing), was I started to play guitar around that time, and this guy avoided me like the plague. I was just looking for tips, insights, etc. One day he stopped by my room and picked up the (acoustic) I was playing and played the most discordant "chord" on it... quickly set it down, said it needed tuning... so I picked it up (had just tuned it actually) and started playing folk chords on it.