Ever feel like the current generation of guitar players are more concerned with owning guitar culture than adding to it? Especially with boutique pedals it seems like a lot of people concern themselves more with who's products they consume rather than what they themselves express on an instrument.
I like modifying guitars because I like wood working in general, so I understand that aspect of it. But I'm talking different.
I own a little under a dozen guitar probably totaling $6k in value, probably another $3k in pedals, and an $300 amp [sic]. Sure I use a good bit of it live, but my default live rig is a Mexican strat I got for $250, a DS-1, ODR-1, and a TR-2. I feel half of my purchases were impulse buys, and the other half was stuff that at the time I thought would boost my creativity or have a noticeable impact on my audience but that hasn't really panned out the way it would. Sure I can get any sound I want, but all the sounds I use can be had with minimal hardware.
Seriously, my 2 most played instruments right now are a $300 classical guitar I bought because I wanted to learn how to emulate the wood burn pattern on it, and a $40 ukulele I keep in my trunk so I can play an instrument on my lunch break instead of eating. All the best sounds that come out of my hands come from low quality gear.
In closing, I feel that guitar culture has gone really far down a bad path such that one of the big struggles a lot of people have with it is wrestling with materialism.
I like modifying guitars because I like wood working in general, so I understand that aspect of it. But I'm talking different.
I own a little under a dozen guitar probably totaling $6k in value, probably another $3k in pedals, and an $300 amp [sic]. Sure I use a good bit of it live, but my default live rig is a Mexican strat I got for $250, a DS-1, ODR-1, and a TR-2. I feel half of my purchases were impulse buys, and the other half was stuff that at the time I thought would boost my creativity or have a noticeable impact on my audience but that hasn't really panned out the way it would. Sure I can get any sound I want, but all the sounds I use can be had with minimal hardware.
Seriously, my 2 most played instruments right now are a $300 classical guitar I bought because I wanted to learn how to emulate the wood burn pattern on it, and a $40 ukulele I keep in my trunk so I can play an instrument on my lunch break instead of eating. All the best sounds that come out of my hands come from low quality gear.
In closing, I feel that guitar culture has gone really far down a bad path such that one of the big struggles a lot of people have with it is wrestling with materialism.
