Multiple Guitars? Why?

Scrybe - best find a partner that can sing. I've found that to be a very useful characteristic. :lol:

Word of advice. Your wife/husband/significant-other or whatever should be your very best friend. You should be interested in similar things, and be willing to learn to like the things that you differ with -- within reasonable limitations, (Leilani wouldn't have lasted long if she were a country music fan) ;-)

I agree with this completely. I think I could hook up with a non-muso if they could understand my passion for music (and football. could never marry someone who called it 'soccer', for example, they'd have to compromise, by which I mean see sense).

Sorry, I'm a little distracted - best game of the cup so far!!!!!!!!!! proper serious old school football from the injured Slovakia dude. freakin' awesome!

But, yeah, I hope I can meet someone I can mesh with and build a good relationship with. Without music and football being major "issues" for us. Hope that happens.

and lamoo at Laz!

Notes, that's a very nice story and post. I got extremely lucky with my first wife. She's still the one. I used to introduce her to people as "my first wife" right after we got married, but the moniker "Battle Axe" was more fun and fit on her license plates better. :lol:

Anyhow, in order to collect these toys of mine, I've had to either keep the number down or buy less expensive units and make what I want out of them. I did the latter. Used, scratch and dents, etc. I also have to do my own upkeep just to keep it afforadable. Maybe leave the strings on 'em a bit too long. Be frugal when it doesn't hurt to be frugal. Buy gear that I can flip with reasonable return loss rates. I spent my biggest money on my Accoustic, only $1,100...which is low dollar in some circles. But of my 10 guitars, I have paid $100 (new), $127(used and abused), $189(new-my real starter), $150 (new - squire affinity Tele) and $300 amp trade for my mim tele. A gift, some reasonably priced pick-ups to toy with. Long story short, these special deal guitars lacked luster, but play very well and didn't smack the budget very hard.

I also used much of this as gifts, which makes shopping for me at holiday and b-day very easy. I can't afford to go get high dollar ones. For me, that $1,100 Breedlove was high dollar, but worth it. I actually looked in the minus $2k range and was prepared to wait if I had to.

Mistakes? Yup. Made a few of them. Gotten wiser, so hopefully less of them. My biggest mess up were with amps. Had I known I liked what i like, I would have purchased them to begin with. I didn't know, so I lost some money. I was able to trade or flip to get maybe 60% average.

And still I have the gas. Maybe someday I will get an Epiphone LP Prophecy GX (WOW, what an incredible guitar http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Epiphone-Les-Paul-Prophecy-GX-Electric-Guitar?sku=515617 ) and the Musician's Friends' exclusive Epiphone http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Epiphone-Limited-Edition-Riviera-Custom-P93-Electric-Guitar?sku=516284 . I don't see either one of these happening soon. I would also make room for the LP by flipping my honey-burst epi lp. That would fund 1/2 of the Prophecy. Hmmmmmm

<note to self <NO! don't do it!!!!>

i need an 'A' electric and an "A" acoustic and a bass. i also have a backup electric with p90s, just because i feel weird not having a p90 guitar.

I go through phases with this- the number of guitars I WANT is...
...well, I pretty much want them all.

NEED is a funny concept. SInce I don't do this for a living, you could argue that I don't NEED any. But that isn't really an option.

Due to what I do for a living, I travel too much, so have never really accumulated a big collection. (Never had more than 5 at once.) Probably had three times that number over the last 3-4 years. They come, they go.

A funny thing is, though- when I'm playing often, feel like I'm making good progress, and am satisfied and happy with my playing, the GAS settles down. Right now, There's really nothing I "need" to buy. (It's been a good week for playing.)

Two weeks ago, when I was struggling to get the practice time in, I was also dying for a new guitar.

Anyone else experience this?

Ande

Two weeks ago, when I was struggling to get the practice time in, I was also dying for a new guitar.
Anyone else experience this?
I wouldn't say dying for a new computer, but mine is a 2004 model. I've fought this thing over the past couple of years. It's actually still a servicable PC and will continue to use it. simply put, it cannot handle recording oe Guitar Pro software all that well. So I guess this new PC is to serve a musical purpose.

I can't run non-musical software on my old one while doing anything recording-wise. It also takes half a minute to open Guitar Pro and nearly twice as much time to open a file once in

Does anyone know if Windoze 7 comes with an equivekany to msc'd gararagr bsnf?

D space to make project after project in Audacity. I went from 190-ish to aterabyte.

I love spending my hard earned cash on guitars! I find they´re the most sensible thing I can get for my money, since I don´t really have any other money-sucking-interest besides playing the guitar.

My girlfriend thinks I´m mad, but then she doesn´t play any instrument. And she´s starting to see what it´s all about though, when I compare it to her shoe-collection: "Oh, now I see why you need ANOTHER guitar... (you´re insane just like me)" :lol: So, I guess we´ve got that in common (yeah, this relationship´s gonna last...).

Seriously though - to answer the question in this post of "why": Because I feel like it... and it´s my goddamn money 8)!

It's not that life is too short, it's that you are going to be dead for a long time, so why not make the most of the time you have here?

Some people collect shoes, some collect jewelry, some collect cars, some spend the price of a guitar every month on TV subscription services. As long as your pleasure doesn't harm anyone else, I say "go for it."

Notes ♫

And accept it for what it is- a lot of folks I work with spend a lot of nights in the bar. (We're usually all a long way from home.)

I do too, sometimes. Can easily spend $20-30 in a cheap bar in an evening. And nobody thinks that's weird. If I buy a cheap guitar, say, $180, that's 7 to 10 bar nights to skip, and it's paid for.

But if you go to a bar 50 nights a YEAR nobody thinks it's weird. (As a random number- for plenty of folks, it's more than one night a week!) If, instead, you get 6 new guitars, people think you're doing something odd.

I'm not anti-bar. Probly heading to one in a few hours. But some nights I want to stay home and play...

Best,
Ande

And accept it for what it is- a lot of folks I work with spend a lot of nights in the bar.

I agree with you Ande; some people spend A LOT of money on alcohol and partying (as did I when I was younger) and most people just shrug their shoulders at that. Thankfully, now I´ve (almost) lost interest in that stuff and see myself "saving" a lot of money that way... money that has to be spent in some other way 8)

As long as you´re actually using all that new gear, I say go for it! It´s when the newly bought stuff just sits in the corner and start to collect dust that maybe you should think about getting some treatment for that GAS of yours :shock:

I do too, sometimes. Can easily spend $20-30 in a cheap bar in an evening. And nobody thinks that's weird. If I buy a cheap guitar, say, $180, that's 7 to 10 bar nights to skip, and it's paid for.
I have a similar issue with magazines and books. I can buy a magazine just because it contains an interview or a review. I browse it and if I like it I buy it. Sometimes I have bought two or three magazines, 20-25€.

However, when I want a book I usually read all the reviews on Amazon and similar web sites, I try to read some pages if I can find them, etc. Each book is around 12€.

On the topic. I have several hobbies and always it is the same. Recently I started with biking. People has several bikes: mountain, road, etc. A friend has 5 bikes, he also participates in races.

Simply put...

I have to credit Twisted Lefty. I believe it was he that originally posted this picture. I adore this picture.

Physics broken down to it's simplist form. True beauty.

Funny thing, though- until recently, I thought that ALL guitar players were gear heads and GAS addicts.

Two of the guys I got together with on Sunday to jam are astoundiingly not interested in gear, though. One has an Epi LP, the other an Epi SG. Neither owns another guitar, wants one, or even seems to know a lot about them.

Both play something wicked, but neither seems the least bit interested in gear. Came to practice with a guitar, few picks, and a capo.

The SG guy has had it for years- it was a present, it's good enough, he knows it well, and...why get another.

The LP guy just bought it. Seems to do that- wherever he moves, he buys a guitar. Just one. Didn't seem the least bit depressed about the fact that, in another year when his contract is up here, he'll sell the LP, move, and get something else to play somewhere else.

Me, I'll probably buy his LP when he goes, get an SG cause they're cheap here, and then cry when it's time to move.

Best,
Ande

I'd bet you a dozen donuts that if I had stuck to one guitar, that I'd be a much better player. I no doubt about it, Hving cheap project guitars has been theraputic for me. Perhaps I'll trim down the collection sonce I'm not glued to the house and start riding motorcycle, playing golf or playing baseball. Until then, I'm keeping my toys.

Oh, I do have one open slot in one of my 5-slot stands, and a single stand is empty as well. I'm sure I've violated some sort of law. Be gentle. That Epi LP Prophecy GX and the Epi Casino P-93 with the three p-90s in it would look GREAT there. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: