Do you ever get jelous of your friends?

NoOnesFang13 · May 16, 2008

i have a friend that has a 50's fender strat in seafoam green, like an original one... and also an all original mint chet atkins tenneseean (spelling) in wine red with the original users manual in perfect condition, and here is the kicker... HE DOESNT EVEN PLAY! he just inhareted the Gretch and the fender was given to him by his friends dad because it has a big ding on the face of it... BUT IT IS A FRIGGIN NICE STRAT! my other friend who plays bass recieved a Custom Washburn with and alder body swamp ash top, maple and walnut 5 piece neck through, rosewood fretboard, and some cool pickups that he is giving me the bridge pickup... too low output for him so he had a D-Sonic laying around that he put in it, which soon will have an A8. But it is a double cut in a transparent maroon colour. I am not so jelous that they have the guitars but rather that they have them and dont play them, not sell them to me, or even let me borrow lol. it bugs me when people get nice gear and leave it idle

wickedmartini · May 16, 2008

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I have buddies that constantly run into these crazy "deals" on stuff--guitars, amps, etc. One of them went to buy a guitar from a guy that he worked with. The guy used play guitar 30 years ago but hasn't really touched it since. He goes over to his place to buy a 60's Fender Jaguar. The guy sells it to him for $250. Barely a scratch on it. To top it off the guy says he has a box of old effects and cords and stuff and the wife has been yelling about the guitars and the old boxes laying around. He says to my buddy, "Why don't you just take the boxes, I know you'll use the stuff." The box was filled with old vintage effects all in great working condition--including an old Echoplex. And much like your friend, my buddy just picks up the guitar casually. I never find stuff like that.

crusty philtrum · May 16, 2008

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You will see plenty of this over the years, people buying the very best gear and being too busy working to ever play it, people lucking into outrageous fortune etc. It can be hard to take sometimes.....but......there is a way to have your evil revenge.......MwahahahHAAAAA!!!!.....

simply get awesomely good at playing......you'll win hands down every time........

Petrovsk Mizinski · May 16, 2008

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I've got a mate who has a Jackson Soloist SL1 (2000 or 2001 if I recall), always makes me feel jealous when I hear about it, even though my own guitar plays and sounds just as good.

theboatcandream · May 16, 2008

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I've never been jealous over equipment because my needs are modest and I've always been working enough that I can afford what I need.

I have been jealous of friends who seem to have opportunities fall in their lap when I feel I've worked and sacrificed to get where I am musically. But I see that as a personal weakness on my part.

ZoSo0789 · May 16, 2008

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yeah my friends parent's allow my buddies to buy literally whatever they want. My parents sure as hell don't let me buy anything. They still have the "you already have a guitar, you don't need another one" mindset. My friend's parents buy him guitars (just got him a Gretsch Electromatic for graduation), and my parents resent me buying ANYTHING guitar related. My dad rolls his eyes when I buy strings......

And I have a another friend who lets his dad's late 90s MIM Tele (sunburst) just rot in it's case. Back when I had serious Tele GAS, I was practically beggin him to sell it for me. Its strings are over 2 years old; they're only that new because I put them on there

NoOnesFang13 · May 16, 2008

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funny thing about my parents is my mom thinks i have enough gear 2amps 15 guitars, but my dad on the other hand wants to buy me stuff, just it is only when he is drunk lol... but yeah anyway also when he is in that condition he keeps trying to give me advice on how to get famous, and i just roll my eyes and ignore it, we use to go to guitarget once a year for one of the List Events, thats where i got my roland recording system for 200 and my line 6 flextone ii hd for 300. which even at regular price at the time was somthing like 8-900 so i lucked out. but the thing is i use them everyday... well the amp, i dont like the recording station i want to get an M-Audio Fast Track Ultra

ImmortalSix · May 16, 2008

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You know that Jackson I have that I got for $67.51? (Yeah, in that case, I'm the one to be jealous of)

Well, I got it from a friend in high school for that low low price because - take a deep breath - his parents got him a Paul Reed Smith Custom 24.

This guy could hardly get a "Mary Had a Little Lamb" out of a guitar.

I was always jealous of that guitar, because I knew I could rock it so much harder. I bet it's in a case somewhere oxidizing

phil_104 · May 16, 2008

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Me and my buddy are talking about this as we speak, and we only get jelous if someone was better gear and doesn't know how to use it, or doesn't use it period.

Me and my friends have good, but different gear. No reason to get jelous, caus they all play a lot.