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Slow Children Playing
There's another thread about buying a taylor for $3000. I never even thought about itt until today. First off, the thought of an expensive acoustic guitar does not appeal to me int he least at this stage of the game. I am getting older and caring more about having my gear battle ready and have invested more in the past 2 years than I had in the previous 20 probably. An acoustic is way low on the list. After decent banjo.
Why did you buy your expensive acoustic?
The qualities that an expensive one has are mostly imperceptible given the resolution of even the best sound recording and reproduction equipment - at least the the majority of listeners. Any edge that you gain by playing an expensive axe would only stand to impress a couple people, right? And those people are probably bigger dorks than you and me.
Maybe electronic reproduction or enforcement doesn't matter at all to you since you play acoustically with other acoustic instruments. So maybe you take it to the park and play in a bluegrass group or something. You need an efficient acoustic machine. It would seem that high end guitars could possibly have an edge. But maybe a carbon bowl acoustic could be enginieered to be even more efficient? I can't imagine thay're shaped that way just so they'll flip off your lap when you sit down and try to play one. You never see bluegrass guys with those do you? I don't. They always have really nice acoustics.
If you're playing hayrides and hootnannies, I'd think a more disposable acoustic would be in line. Something you could leave leaning against a tree while you take a piss and make a hitter out of a beer can that you sweat and slobber and spill and scratch and tie nots in the broken strings rather than replace them. How can one cultivate an afternoon outdoor buzz when you have to keep remembering where you left your 17 pound hardshell case?
Maybe you never play it in front of anyone. Is it just the way it fillls the room? Or the way it feels under your fingers? It touches you on a spiritual level. Did yo buy it primarily for the way it makes you feel? If so, how could you possibly have connected on that level while plunking on it in guitar center with pantera blasting through the store pa system or clicking through musician's friend's website after sorting acoustic guitars by price high to low?
Come on. Spill it. It's because it's got that hole right in the middle, isn't it? You can't help but think that you're stumming a vagina, can you?
sickos.
And I don't want to hear any sexual innuendo about me being a pillow biter because I've been going on an on about how much I love my new whammy bar.
Why did you buy your expensive acoustic?
The qualities that an expensive one has are mostly imperceptible given the resolution of even the best sound recording and reproduction equipment - at least the the majority of listeners. Any edge that you gain by playing an expensive axe would only stand to impress a couple people, right? And those people are probably bigger dorks than you and me.
Maybe electronic reproduction or enforcement doesn't matter at all to you since you play acoustically with other acoustic instruments. So maybe you take it to the park and play in a bluegrass group or something. You need an efficient acoustic machine. It would seem that high end guitars could possibly have an edge. But maybe a carbon bowl acoustic could be enginieered to be even more efficient? I can't imagine thay're shaped that way just so they'll flip off your lap when you sit down and try to play one. You never see bluegrass guys with those do you? I don't. They always have really nice acoustics.
If you're playing hayrides and hootnannies, I'd think a more disposable acoustic would be in line. Something you could leave leaning against a tree while you take a piss and make a hitter out of a beer can that you sweat and slobber and spill and scratch and tie nots in the broken strings rather than replace them. How can one cultivate an afternoon outdoor buzz when you have to keep remembering where you left your 17 pound hardshell case?
Maybe you never play it in front of anyone. Is it just the way it fillls the room? Or the way it feels under your fingers? It touches you on a spiritual level. Did yo buy it primarily for the way it makes you feel? If so, how could you possibly have connected on that level while plunking on it in guitar center with pantera blasting through the store pa system or clicking through musician's friend's website after sorting acoustic guitars by price high to low?
Come on. Spill it. It's because it's got that hole right in the middle, isn't it? You can't help but think that you're stumming a vagina, can you?
sickos.
And I don't want to hear any sexual innuendo about me being a pillow biter because I've been going on an on about how much I love my new whammy bar.