Funny you should ask....all my life I've wanted to learn to play electric guitar and finally at age 50 I'm going for it. Went to GC this week and bought an HSS Strat and Peavy Bandit 65 combo. I am going to teach myself the basics then maybe take a lessons. It's amazing what's available online to get you started.
I gotta say just holding the thing and making some noise is very exciting. It's probably better I waited till now though as I'm older and have hell allot more discipline than I did in the 80s
cheers DG