…Guitars are even more addictive than whistles? My WHOA has settled a bit. I’m still drooling over whistles on the net, but I have sort of settled for a set of whistles that seems to suit my needs perfectly (Syn).
I’ve been playing guitar for a couple of years now, lots of different kinds of music. Right now I’m playing lots of latino and jazz stuff on the guitar. I’m having a bad, bad case of guitar acquisition disorder. I currently own one acustic guitar and one electric, both are fine, but first of all I want to upgrade those, then I want to get other guitars with different styles.
I want another classical (nylon stringed) guitar very bad.
Then I want a half acustic (steel stringed) guitar. I’ve been drooling over a metalic blue Takamine
Then I want one of those:
Fender Stratocaster with a Diamondback humbucker and two single coil pickups
Then I NEED one of those:
Fender American Deluxe Telecaster with double Enforcer humbuckers, maple neck and ebony fingerboard.
And I feel like I absolutely couldn’t live without one of those:
Gibson SG '61 Reissue (need I say more?)
And as if this weren’t enough, of course I need a fat Marshall half-stack. My Roland amp is great, but it would feel like blasphemy to play those guitars on a Roland amp.
Henke, you might be setting your sights too low. Now, take that SG and add a Pete Rose bridge microtuner, and a 24-fret neck and you will be getting into the right zone. Also, the guitarist for The Tea Party has a computerized string tension device that retunes his guitar to various open tunings on the fly. Gotta have one of them! And don’t forget a complete Roland MIDI retrofit with pedal controller,. That leads into a complete synth and effects rack, and then you’re in business … until you get the next urge to upgrade.
I’m a little bit of a traditionalist I guess Sure, lots of high-tech stuff are very cool. But the guys that seem to do best are still using stuff that came out in the '50s. I think that’s cool. Give me a Fender Stratocaster and a Marshall amp any day.
Yeah, that thought has crossed my mind a few times
You guys who have read the other thread must think I’m a total idiot. The fact that I often get to play Fender Stratocasters on Marshall amps when I’m in school, and I get payed to do it makes me sound soooo silly for not going there as often as I should. Again, I have a hard time understanding the problem myself.
But I’m doing a bit better right now, I only missed one day last week. Progress…
I am no longer addicted to any musical instrument. I overcame all diseases related to aquiring instruments (although I aquired a few diseases in the process). I will likely never again seriously plan a musical instrument (other than singing, but you can’t collect voices). People seem to ignore my testimony, though, and they think that aquiring musical instruments is incurable. I assure you, it’s not.
Charlene had just the same thought I did. Congratulations on getting to school more . That does not sound like something a total idiot would be doing. So you are on the right track. It is
progress. Keep it up. I’d say just keep practicing, limit your catalog browsing severely, and then the day will come when you can take some steps to upgrade. I bet the really great players didn’t have the really fancy stuff at first, so maybe it’s even better not to. Maybe it would be too distracting. Or maybe you have to earn the instrument before it will love you. I don’t know.
My wife says I’ve got GAS but I have a suspicion she’s not referring to musical instruments - though M. Petomane comes to mind… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pétomane
If I really wanted to become truly “good” on a musical instrument, I’d pick flute over whistle any day. A “good” flute player does such wonders to the ear, more than even the “goodest” whistle player, in my opinion.
Stratocasters are the Generations of the guitar world. Ocassionally they are great (for some people. . . blach) but often. . . meh.
Henke - there are two electric guitars worth owning: A Rickenbacker and an ES-335. I have a Rick 330, the Gibby will have to wait until I get a keyed Olwell and a harp
I don’t think I’ll ever get rid of the need to own lots of fancy stuff (until I become a Buddhist munk at age 70 and live my last years in peace and tranquility in some remote monastery somewhere in Asia).
Somehow, the process of learning to play an instrument is totaly separated from the need to collect them, and they seem to have almost nothing to do with each other. I’m not planning on becoming a pro guitarist. I wouldn’t mind if a band I played in went pro and I maybe played a bit of guitar in that band. Of course I want to become better, but that has nothing to do with owning guitars.
Wormdiet, I know, they vary immensely. Luckily I have a shop nearby here who always stock loads of Fenders, both used and new, so I get to go there and try out a few until I’m happy. I love the feel of a good Stratocaster, but even the least good ones I’ve played, I’ve liked.
Actually I was kinda giving you crap about strats;P I like 'em fine when other folks play them.. . I cannot for some reason make them sound good. Then again, i have not a shred of blues in my buddy, and I think strats can sense that.
I am playing my 330 while typing this. . .through a VOx tonelab. Nice piece o gear, that.
Charlene had just the same thought I did. Congratulations on getting to school more 
. That does not sound like something a total idiot would be doing. So you are on the right track. It 
