Big money guitars? IE PRS Private reserve etc..

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Big money guitars? IE PRS Private reserve etc..

You can always look at the stuff you own and think that you can do with less... or more... this is somewhat pointless as it could be taken to any direction, at will.

Which is kind of the point of my entire post.

Where did you read any negative thoughts about others in my post? I didn't call them 'Blues Lawyers' or anything.

I'm talking about the entire thread, and the countless others like it. ("I don't mean to pick on you specifically. I thought about this a lot on the drive home, about how jealousy and cognitive dissonance play into threads like this.")

There's north and then of course there's outer space.

North of what? What's outer space? One person's "reasonable" $1,000 guitar is outer space to another.

If someone is driving 7 or 8 times faster than I am, then yes, he's a maniac, and will probably have problems staying attached to the surface. If someone spends more money than I do on anything - it's his right... however there is a point where it starts looking a little funny.

Let's be honest. It only takes an extra 20-30mph or so to make a driver stand out at freeway speeds and look like a psychopath. And it doesn't look funny; it looks dangerous. The commonality is that we make these snap judgments all the time, based on gut reaction. To that driver, the rest of us are just slowpokes getting in his way. To the person buying the $10,000 guitar, the rest of us… does it matter? Is that guy putting anyone in danger? Is he on Internet forums pissing and moaning about what other people do with their money and how it "looks" to him? Usually, no, not around here. Those guys are usually too busy looking for high-end cigars to smoke while they play, or managing their stock portfolios, or standing around at a Santana concert waiting for the meet-and-greet so they can have Carlos signed their Private Reserve PRS. Or, they're working an extra job to pay for the thing because they wanted it badly enough to sacrifice. Because some people stretch pretty far to get things that are important to them. Maybe some of those guys are DINKs (or even SINKs) and decide to spend the extra on toys for themselves. Does it matter? No, no it doesn't.

If we all spent this time learning music theory or taking lessons or playing mini golf instead of philosophizing about products we're not interested in buying, we'd probably be a lot happier. That goes for you, me, the next guy, his buddy, and his neighbor, whether it's a Private Reserve PRS, an EMG-loaded LTD at Sam Ash, a granite trem block, a fretboard with no inlays, or a guitar made out of pasta. Jesus Christ. Who ****ing cares? Why are we wasting our time with this ****? Thread after thread of the same thing. That's what's crazy.

And jealousy is really not the case here. If the oil billionaires of the UAE want to build their houses on artificial islands do you think that I don't like it because I'm jealous or because I consider it to be just a little over the top??? (even if one ignores the damage to environment, and literally throwing money in to the ocean). Really, if someone else here agrees that this is stupid, is he also jealous?

I think the island thing is kinda cool.

 

[JohnnyGuitar]

Re: Big money guitars? IE PRS Private reserve etc..

North of what? What's outer space? One person's "reasonable" $1,000 guitar is outer space to another.

I don't know. You were the one who started with the directions.
The OP asked about our opinions on such guitars so everyone use their point of reference which could be social, functional or whatever... so yeah, the answers would be relative and it seems like I fall in a pretty big camp that doesn't understand the reason of spending such money on a guitar. I don't think that anyone takes it too hard though...

Let's be honest. It only takes an extra 20-30mph or so to make a driver stand out at freeway speeds and look like a psychopath. And it doesn't look funny; it looks dangerous. The commonality is that we make these snap judgments all the time, based on gut reaction. To that driver, the rest of us are just slowpokes getting in his way. To the person buying the $10,000 guitar, the rest of us… does it matter? Is that guy putting anyone in danger? Is he on Internet forums pissing and moaning about what other people do with their money and how it "looks" to him? Usually, no, not around here. Those guys are usually too busy looking for high-end cigars to smoke while they play, or managing their stock portfolios, or standing around at a Santana concert waiting for the meet-and-greet so they can have Carlos signed their Private Reserve PRS. Or, they're working an extra job to pay for the thing because they wanted it badly enough to sacrifice. Because some people stretch pretty far to get things that are important to them. Maybe some of those guys are DINKs (or even SINKs) and decide to spend the extra on toys for themselves. Does it matter? No, no it doesn't.

I agree. I don't think that the answer should revolve about who the person is and what he was thinking to himself.

If we all spent this time learning music theory or taking lessons or playing mini golf instead of philosophizing about products we're not interested in buying, we'd probably be a lot happier. That goes for you, me, the next guy, his buddy, and his neighbor, whether it's a Private Reserve PRS, an EMG-loaded LTD at Sam Ash, a granite trem block, a fretboard with no inlays, or a guitar made out of pasta. Jesus Christ. Who ****ing cares? Why are we wasting our time with this ****? Thread after thread of the same thing. That's what's crazy.

It's like you said above, people have their reasons. Does it matter? No, no it doesn't.

I think the island thing is kinda cool.

And I respect it. However, no chance I can find a way around still calling these islands 'stupid'.

They are also sinking.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Big money guitars? IE PRS Private reserve etc..

They are also sinking.

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