guidothepimmp
obsession... ☹
heres the rationale.. i love my guits. spend time taking them apart... cleaning... putting back together... upgrading..modding etc.
recently i found how protective i am over them.. it started when i sold 2 guits that i stopped using after my gigging days. I wasnt playing them.. so i sold them. immediately after the guys left with the guits i had this overwhelming sense of loss.. like a loved one had left.
yesterday i borrowed my acoustic to a work colleague so he can practice ( work band playing year end). same thing.. im obsessing about how this guy is treating my guit.. how he is... gulp... handling it..
my wife says ive lost it a bit ans says its over the top.
am i alone here or do you fellers feel the same about your babes.. errr.. guits?
love to hear your comments
singemonkey
Haha. Sounds like you really need to get a kitten, just for you ?
I'm actually more than open to lending my guitars to any of my friends, but they never ask :? Finally, I only sell the ones I don't like.
A lot of people on these various fora - MIKA being a conspicuous exampe - trade one guitar for another looking for the right one. Means you have to give up the one you've got even if you don't hate it. I totally see that, but I've never really felt like that myself. The only one I'm in a position like that with is my SG - and I refuse to play it in case it tricks me into falling in love with it. If I don't find a buyer for it, I'll open my heart to the poor dear. ?
inflames
I think the day I got my first electric! Was obsessed with guitars and amps since that day!
guidothepimmp
a kitten? :-[
funny enough my 1st electric is the only one i felt nothing for when i took it apart and butchered it. it does though live on in a guitar i built myself. i wasnt confident enough to try building a neck so i salvaged the neck from that one..
flatfourfan
hmmmmm, I think I'm coming down with this as well. Funnily enough it was after I sent you a text regarding the gear to bring along and I added something along the lines of " I have 2 spare guits if you need to try something else".
When I sent that I was thinking, sh*t..............did I just say that?
And to top it off the one guitar that is not my daily is one that i built myself..............I mean common.............lol.
I never really used to give a hoot who played with my gear....................lately..........well, times they are a changing....
guidothepimmp
haha.. i wont hold it against you if you retract that statement. i dont mind dudes jamming on mine provided im there and can see the dude isnt being a plonker.
now when im not there... hmm. problem
flatfourfan
guidothepimmp wrote:
haha.. i wont hold it against you if you retract that statement. i dont mind dudes jamming on mine provided im there and can see the dude isnt being a plonker.
now when im not there... hmm. problem
lmao...........nah if someone who can play, plays it in front of me, then I have no problems with it, many guys like to try out the warlock, just because it's so unique and it's cool seeing them play it, usually followed by a "damn, solid maple body hey?" and they rub their neck and lower back........lol.
I think if I owned an ultra rare/ expensive guitar then things would be different, I mean no-one ever jumps over my Gio.
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AlanRatcliffe
I used to feel that way, but got over it as more and more went through my hands. Now I'm downright callous about it. Most guitars are easily replaced, and usually with something better. It's the unique ones that are the worst - vintage guitars or something unusual that isn't easily replaced if you decide you want another.
Maybe the key is like it is with farm animals - don't name them and you'll feel less attachment/loss when they are up on the auction/chopping block. ?
FruitarGeek
My friend phoned me on Saturday wanting to know if he could use my Fender.
My immediate response was: Are you Joking? :-\
I loaned him my epiphone instead.
guidothepimmp
haha..
Alan.. too true.. and your signature sums it up perfectly too...
spot the amateurs ?
BMU
I love my guitars but I don't anthropomorphize them. They're just objects. This was proven to me in a very clear way when two got stolen - sure I was p*d off, but I honestly can't say I felt any emotional loss. And besides I soon had better ones, woohoo. ?
Reinhard
I give them names and make them little outfits in my free time. Tonight I am getting us pizza and we will be watching AC/DC live at Donnington. So the archtops don't feel left out, I have some Freddie King scheduled for next friday. My fenders are a bit" kommin", they don't mind what we watch as long as I put Some Rory Galagher or the Strat Pack dvd on once in a blue moon.
I'm pretty protective over my hear, the ones I can't afford to replace are insured and the Fenders with their poly finishes can take care of themselves. I don't mind people trying my gear as long as they aren't packing cowboy sized belt buckles or studded jewellery ? but yes, it's cool hearing your instruments in someone else's hands, but loan them out, no chance.
Reinhard
I'm so obsessed I posted twice, damn blackberry
aubs1
My dad bought my first guitar, a Fender Strat MIA, many years ago, and I had no emotional ties......not to anything at the time anyway! When the time came to "move on", I sold it......."needed" the money.........hahahaha.......
However, since I started having to buy my guitars myself, with my own hard-earned bucks, that changed the whole dynamic.......I will not part with them, unless my life depended on it. I find it rather difficult to understand how guys (like our friend Mika.....no offence....) buys and sells guitars every second week..... The thing is I know what I want, and save up until I can get it, without having to sacrifice any one of my other babies......
I agree with some of you, it's nice hearing someone else play your guitars, I like that.........but only where I can see them!!!....hahahahaha
I only hope that my boys will value what they will inherit one day ...........if not, I hope I won't be around to see them sell them for "date money" .... ? ?
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I'm fine with letting people play my guitars (heck I let toddlers play them), but lending things out, well, experience has taught me that people treat things badly when it's someone else's.
stu
I start freaking out when people touch my guitars. Even if they just pick it up to have a look.
I hate it, I cant stand people putting their dirty hands on my babies. I get really stressed and try persuade them to gently put the guitar down.
I usually get a comment like "relax dude, Im not going to break it".
MIKA-the-better-one
For all my trading and selling I dont think I am obsessed.... every guitar I bring in is either one I will intend to keep or one I will not *and I know this the day I get it"
For example in past weeks i have sold certain strats without playing the more than an hour........ others I kept 2 weeks..... I realised at this time they really didnt click.... And I realises such things by playing them for a few minutes and then taking out my true love (john mayer fender strat) and playing that. Often I just go "woah that is so much better"
A guitar has to be drastically different or better to stay..... the only guitar to date I wish I had kept is my 64 mustang....... but if I hadnt sold that then i would not have my jazzmaster now, which is to my ears a glorified mustang, better in so many ways. just not a 64!!! But I am not a collector so this hould not matter. I have wanted a jazzmaster for like 5 years since I saw the guy from incubus using one 8)
The thing I will try keep away from is collecting, everything I buy is for the purpose of playing shows, and stuff. When I am at home my guitars are in the corner in there cases, not out on display. I dont need 200 guitars at the moment because gogs require no more than 2 often. I think the obsession comes when you just collect guitars for anything but really playing them.
And when it comes to people playing my guitars, I trust some people, theo ther day at a show some guy in another band in skinny jeans and a perm in his hair like Prince broke a string, I didnt lend him my guitar because for 1 his hair was stupid..... and 2 he should have had a backup or at least strings which were not 2 months old. Save money on hair and spend on guitar....
Wizard
The guitar I'm most bonded to is my self-assembled Strat clone.
It's also the guitar I'm most happy for others to play ... and even encourage others to play ... as I know I can fix it if it gets broken.
My classical guitar gets touched by me ... and only me.
(seems so fragile and delicate by comparison)
vic
Apparently there are several forms of Obession... here are a few pointers ?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/obsession
have a bee in one’s bonnet To be obsessed by a delusive notion or fantasy; to be preoccupied by a whimsical or perverse fancy; to be eccentric or crotchety. Variants of this phrase, such as bees in the head or brains, and maggots in the head or brains, were used as early as the beginning of the 16th century, although bee in one’s bonnet is heard almost exclusively today. As for its origin, it seems evident that anyone with a live bee buzzing inside his hat would be preoccupied indeed. Perhaps the use of alliteration accounts for its currency.
one-track mind A mind completely obsessed with a single thought, idea, or desire; an extremely narrow point of view. This common expression alludes to a single set of railroad tracks on which trains can move in only one direction. As used today, the phrase often carries the disparaging implication that the possessor of such a mind stubbornly resists any consideration of alternative viewpoints.
ride a hobbyhorse To pursue a favorite project or idea relentlessly and unceasingly; to be obsessed with a single notion or scheme. A hobbyhorse was the term given to a wickerwork horselike frame used in the old Morris dances, as well as to the stick toy with a horse’s head ridden in mock fashion by children. The expression originally meant to play an infantile game of which one soon tired, since riding such a hobbyhorse involved little more than monotonous repetition of unvaried movements. In the 1700s John Wesley referred to hobbyhorse as “the cant term of the day.”
Now where do I/we fit in...? ?
guidothepimmp
hehee,
i need the wife to come read this.. ?
figured this was more common than seems.. :-[
Vic, interesting post, the question is indeed where do I/ we fit in in all that? ?
My colleague came over to me yesterday carrying on about how nice the tone was on my acoustic ☹
she'll be back in 2 weeks though :woohoo:
