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lost in music wrote:Last week when the Powerball was getting up there, I started having this fantasy about lurking on Reverb and snapping up every Klon Centaur and King of Tone I could buy. I'd corner the market on those fuckers over the course of a year or two. Then I'd make a youtube video with them all hooked up together, slowly panning over the dozens of pedals. Then, at the last pedal, the instrument cord is fed into one of those industrial shredders and the pedlols are lowered in, one by one. Then just drop that link off at TGP bright and early on a Monday morning.

Then, I'd make another one, with old vintage tape delays. It would start out exactly the same and people were gonna think I was gonna shred 'em up too. But instead of throwing them in the shredder, I'd give one to each of you guys and we'd have a bitchin' mega delay jam right there at the junkyard.

Acquiring "Dream" Guitars... Now What?

So this has happened in every aspect in my life so its an issue for me. But recently its happened in the guitar world and now I feel like Im over it. I always owned nice custom shop Fenders, R8-R8 Gibsons, Danocasters, built my own teles which came out great, Ron Ellis pickups (and whatever else is the new thing), Collings acoustics, Bourgious acoustics, Martin Authentics, etc...

Then I decided that I should just start getting the real stuff and thin down from 6-8 teles to 2-3, same with strats, same with acoustics. So I got a 68 tele, 69 sg, 68 es335, 64 strat, 54 tele, 43 j45 banner, 47 LG2, and whatever else. And you know what? Eh, nothing great here. My SG and 68 tele have some magic in them but it goes with the same idea on new guitars and some just have it. My point is that I understand the chase and the journey but when you get there, its not all that fun anymore. Im over it. I pick up a custom shop or my Collings over anything else. Do the old guitars sound good? Yes, but Im not a collector and for playing they all have their quirks, just like an old car. Do you really want old suspension, brakes, carborators, no power steering? Guitars havent improved like cars have but old is old. Yes its cool but dont think that if you get that 56 strat the seas will part and the tone and play ability will make you a 3x better player instantly. Its just wood.

Again, Im not bashing anyone who wants these guitars. I have them and I wanted and still like to have them. But just like chasing dumble tones or trainwreck tones (Ive been there too), its not magic. Same with pickups. Do Ellis pickups sound better? They sure sound great and I like them in my guitar because when I install them I stop searching. But Ive went back and forth on pickups in guitars just to change the smallest differences that nobody would notice. Im sure if I turned the mids down 1 notch, nobody would know.

Snufkino wrote:It's almost like mindlessly buying things doesn't equate to any real emotional contentment or intellectual or creative development.

Snufkino wrote:It's almost like mindlessly buying things doesn't equate to any real emotional contentment or intellectual or creative development.