Chabenda wrote:
Dom, are you really sure that you want to do this? I sense that you may regret this really badly in the future. Is it really worth selling it??
dude, you are, naturally, quite correct. wanna know which guitar i regret selling the most? a yamaha pacifica 112. for all my protestations about strat-style guitars and their pickup configurations, this guitar positively sang, had just about the most playable neck i've ever experienced, and yet i still let it go. this was when andy mcgibbon still had his shop on jan smuts in randburg. so we're talking a long time ago, and i still miss the thing.
point being i'm one of those saps who regrets selling just about every piece of gear, ever - down to my zoom gfx707. i'm surprised i still have my old technics keyboard at the rate i go through gear. now, however, i'm looking to consolidate, and only end up with gear i actually play. thus, with my goldtop, my sg, and a les paul, i'd have the three guitars i think would deliver all the tonal range i could ever want - or need.
yes, i know, there are those who would argue that a prs does all of this in one guitar. and this used to be me, too. but i just don't play it any more, except every once in a while, and it just doesn't give me the playing satisfaction it once did. of course, there's the knowledge that you're playing one of the world's best production guitars, that you own it, it's yours, all of that good stuff, but i've been around enough blocks for that to not be enough. 'tis about the sound and feel of the guitar, the satisfaction of what comes out of the soundhole or the amp. for me, anyway.
i'm waffling. i'm over-rationalising. and so yes, i'm going to regret it. but it will finance a guitar i really, really want to have. and probably most of a new amp.
so i'll probably end up doing it. but thanks - a lot - for the lookout
dh
