When gear addiction long surpasses your ability
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Ball&Chain
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Re: When gear addiction long surpasses your ability
Not a frankenstein here, but a wolfgang, heh. I can actually even recognize dokken in there. "in my dreams". & "breaking the chains"
Not a frankenstein here, but a wolfgang, heh. I can actually even recognize dokken in there. "in my dreams". & "breaking the chains"
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J Moose
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Re: When gear addiction long surpasses your ability
Truth is that if you actually USE your gear... gigging or not, dings are gonna happen. Doesn't matter how big or small the stage is. I've dropped microphones and stuff... it happens. I've still never seen a guitar or anything else smashed by accident either.
Maimed? Yeah... once. But not destroyed. And that's over thousands of gigs all over the country on everything from a postage stamp 'bar stage' to huge multi-day festivals and places like MSG.
Truth is that stuff can happen anywhere... even at home.
I know a guy who cracked the headstock off his prized mid '70s Lester at home. He never gigged with it. Didn't want to risk anything happening, like not even a scratch on his favorite guitar... but there he was at home when the straplock failed.
At least if he had gigged with the thing it wouldn't have been so bad... he'd have gotten a lot more play time out of the instrument and not have been so torn up over the break. That's in his own words btw.
To me a guitar, amp, mic... whatever... they're all just tools. Like a framing hammer, table saw or belt sander. What do I need today? Some are inexpensive, some are not but they all carry equal weight.
Truth is that if you actually USE your gear... gigging or not, dings are gonna happen. Doesn't matter how big or small the stage is. I've dropped microphones and stuff... it happens. I've still never seen a guitar or anything else smashed by accident either.
Maimed? Yeah... once. But not destroyed. And that's over thousands of gigs all over the country on everything from a postage stamp 'bar stage' to huge multi-day festivals and places like MSG.
Truth is that stuff can happen anywhere... even at home.
I know a guy who cracked the headstock off his prized mid '70s Lester at home. He never gigged with it. Didn't want to risk anything happening, like not even a scratch on his favorite guitar... but there he was at home when the straplock failed.
At least if he had gigged with the thing it wouldn't have been so bad... he'd have gotten a lot more play time out of the instrument and not have been so torn up over the break. That's in his own words btw.
To me a guitar, amp, mic... whatever... they're all just tools. Like a framing hammer, table saw or belt sander. What do I need today? Some are inexpensive, some are not but they all carry equal weight.
Metalblaze
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Re: When gear addiction long surpasses your ability
Sometimes it takes something like that ^^^ to happen to realize this vvv.
Of course the more expensive the guitar the more sad you'll be. By expensive I don't only mean real value but sentimental one too.
But making it playbale again it's another great feeling. Check this -----> http://vimeo.com/9835015
I love Jon Sullivan's videos.
Sometimes it takes something like that ^^^ to happen to realize this vvv.
Of course the more expensive the guitar the more sad you'll be. By expensive I don't only mean real value but sentimental one too.
But making it playbale again it's another great feeling. Check this -----> http://vimeo.com/9835015I love Jon Sullivan's videos.