updates
feb 2011 - feb 2012, $150, mi-audio tubezone, -$125
february 2010 - dec 2011, $1500, 01' gibson les paul standard, cherry sunburst, -$1730
it's funny, i never liked the tubezone until the day i was to sell it. i mean, it was still a bit loose sounding and all, and i still hadn't found a sweet spot with all the fiddly knobs it came with (damn thing had 6 knobs). but i came pretty close, and working the volume on the guitar gave it a heck of a tone range. but i had to sell it. oh, at least i still got the sahasrara, which sounds good at any dial. god damn!
i should probably get a fuzz. i mean, what's the point of listening to so much hendrix if i ain't gonna get a fuzz? it doesn't make sense. and of course, someday i'm gonna get a joe b signature goldtop les paul. it's like what 3.8k USD? come on, they're giving it away here.
there was a pretty funny 9gag post about guitars lately. let me see if i can find it.
http://9gag.com/gag/2690821
love his look. i bet he plays killer.
so it's been almost 8 years since i've been playing. i like the guitar. i like the way i like it. i mean, honestly, i've never truly felt frustrated with my playing, if i wanted to play something and worked at it, it generally came to me. importantly, i play it for myself. it's like my fingers are talking to me. which isn't a bad thing because i dunno it doesn't really impress the girls anymore. hahaha. well i guess if there's one thing i don't do enough, it's playing with other people. but that's just the way it is. and yeah it's an expensive hobby, but it's a fairly liquid one, and i haven't really bought anything for awhile. and... when it comes down to it, really, music is something i feel is worth doing. the magic of stevie ray vaughan, duane allman, jimi, joe b, richie blackmore, their playing is a really big part of my life. and i'm pretty sure if i didn't listen to so much rock, i'd not have come to like classical music. i love classical music.
anyway yesterday i was just thinking to myself, golly, i played in a musical. i mean the music was all there, but it was pretty cool to have played in a musical. if i was honest i'd admit that i probably wasn't the nicest guy i could have been during those few months, for reasons unrelated to the guys or the music. does that make my recollection of it a little regretful? yeah, it does a little. but you know, feelings are feelings. i tend to fall back on my oft-cited line that i'm not used to being around people, and sometimes i think i'm making use of it as an excuse. but that's the way it is, again. a lot of the time i feel that people in general are difficult to accept, and i get a little bit detached. it's the norwegian wood in me.
anyhoo, i'm thankful to my dad for being so supportive of me. really. i think he's funded all my significant purchases. i mean my army and pre-uni pay i've never really squandered, but essentially i've been managing his money for awhile, responsibly so, and that's how i got most of the stuff. i mean, i think i've more or less been net with my buy/sells. it's funny, i admit most of the old stuff i listen to are developments from listening to purple, which is really from my dad. my dad is quite something. he's a resilient old man. we understand each other very well, and i've got a lot of sympathy for him. i know that he's more proud of me than anything in this world. well, i could probably say the same about my mom. but my dad is proud of me as a person, whereas my mom is proud of me as a son. i guess we'll try to fix that come may when i go over to adelaide.
looking at my gear, there are so many stories, but i guess none that really pop out as much as the first guitar i got. and happily enough, whenever i go back to draw on that well i find that i dig the sound it makes. it tells me that my technique isn't half bad. it tells me that i can hear the feelings in my playing. and it tells me that as long as i treat it nicely it'll be there and well. i may never play it like tommy e plays it, but i can get over on it once in awhile. hell, it was the guitar i learnt to play blurry on. now that one felt fun.
