When can one call themselves a guitar player?

[fraserhutch]

Nah, that just defines being a "pro " player.

Some of the best players I know make their living elsewhere. I know that I am a better musician now than I was when I was making a living at it. I also eat better now

IMHO



When playing guitar brings the food on yer table.


...which means I'll never be more than an amateur..


..can't go telling everyone you're a rocket scientist if you go around cleaning rooms for a living?...

 

[Druw]

You cant call yourslef a guitar player, until youre so good that the guitar plays you.
EDIT: You can however say that you play the guitar.

 

[mshilarious]

When you can get through the riff to "Smoke on the Water" and only stop two times for mistakes. OK, three times

 

[digmudvayne4lif]

when you can play a shadows fall song without looking at the guitar and be able to doing some hardcore headbanging while your at it.

 

[true-eurt]

Are my fingers bleeding yet?

Read my signature and the truth is told.

 

[DogFood]

When you put the monster down, metaphorically speaking, and pick it back up.

 

[grindpaul]

when someone asks you to bend your neck you dont have to pay a big hospital bill

 

[bileshake]

Your a guitar player when your with your pals and they're like "I seen this sweet peice of ass downtown this afternoon", and your like "I seen this sweet ass peice of wood on ebay..."

 

[mikemorgan]

You're a guitar player when you realize that nothing in Guitar Player magazine is particularly useful.

 

[ibanezrocks]

Your a guitar player when your with your pals and they're like "I seen this sweet peice of ass downtown this afternoon", and your like "I seen this sweet ass peice of wood on ebay..."

I'll take it one step further...

You know you're a guitar player when you catch yourself looking at the guitar in your bedroom while you're gettin' it on.

 

[gvarko]

If you watch MTV, VH1 & VH1 Classic just to spot sweet Les Pauls, you might be a DJ...

 

[gvarko]

You're a guitar player when you realize that nothing in Guitar Player magazine is particularly useful.

Excuse me!! I can't take a proper dump without one!!

 

[legionserial]

You're guitar player when your about to go off to bed, and you see that guitar sitting there, and proceed to spend the next 3 hours shredding, realise its got light, then when you do go to bed all you can hear is some scale or another going backwards and forwards in your head.

You're also a guitar player when the only company you have day in day out is a piece of wood with strings on it. And I'm not talking about a puppet.

Although.......

 

[espskully]

When can one call themselves a guitar player?

When one plays a guitar.

 

[mixmkr]

when you still smell like pizza sauce after a nights work...

 

[mandocaster]

Here is a variation on an old one.

These two guitar players get together and one of them has a really cool new guitar.

"Where did you get that?", the other asks.

"I went to the park today, and there was this really beautiful chick playing guitar. She took off all of her clothes and said I could have anything I wanted. So I took the guitar."

The other one says, "You made the right choice - her clothes probably wouldn't have fit you."

 

[mandocaster]

In a world where Kurt Kobain (even though he was a great songwriter, band leader, and performer) can be included as one of the top guitar players of all time by Rolling Stone, the term has gotten kind of fuzzy. I think if you are a guitar player in a band, or if you have done so in the past, you are a guitar player. Or... if you do (or did) solo gigs on guitar, you can call yourself a guitar player.

 

[ibanezrocks]

Being a guitar player isn't measured by what song you can learn to play but instead by what song you can write. Even if its technically horrible if you're able to write a song that satisfies you then you're a guitar player.

 

[faderbug]

doesn't that make you a song writer?

 

[Dani Pace]

If more people tell you to "Turn it up," instead of "Turn it down," you might be a guitar player.