Have you tried putting yourself up for adoption

Lent a nice Yamaha guitar to a cousin, i hadn't seen for a long time, not realizing he had a drug problem. he sold it, dirt cheap for his habit. he wasn't worth beating the hell out of. haven't talked to him in 18 years, now. mis that guitar though. I still have all my guitars except that one, and another yamaha(LP copy,) that was stolen.

I regret not buying a fender Twin from a successful musician 9who I won't name,) who lived down the street from me when i was a teen. ! didn't realize he was offering it at a quarter of what it was worth, to do me a huge favour, until a couple years later when i realized what gear was going for.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

No body would want me I'm to gruff. Of cource if Madonna wanted to save on airfare I would concider calling her Mommy when ever she wants

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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_9/

Yeah seeing my old Tele 72 Thinline on this last night brought a lump to my throat. Not saying its exactly the one, mine was only the RI and I'm not sure if he's playing an original or not. Traded mine in last November. Got a beautiful Gibson ES 355. The bit with the band is at 55mins, you drag the scroll thing along the bottom to get there.

Thinkin more of Brad & Angeline , Brad would be away doin his films and stuff , Angelina seems a dedicated woman I'm sure she'd do a great job raising you

I had a pair of Gon Bop congas... solid oak, made the same way as a wine barrette... a lost art, these days. Probably all they needed was a change of skins, but I sold them when I was a starving student for far less than they were worth. They're the only items I regret. I've had various guitars and amps pass through, but I only let go of them if they had no real personality to them. After I lost those congas I promised myself I'd never willingly part company with anything unique.

555 , bro , yes i think about every guitar and amp that i have ever had and sold or in one case had ripped off , but i'll stop thinking about that now and thanks for the memories .

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

June 11, 1983, I re-inlisted in the Navy. Got a giant bonus check. Went into a guitar shop to pick up a used accoustic. Wanted to be careful with the $. 3 hours later I walked out with the prettiest Les Paul I'd ever seen. A Gibson Heritage Standard 80 Elite.

Wife and I ran into some money troubles a few years later and I reluctantly sold it.

Ocassionally I still wake up screaming.

1971 sunburst Fender Mustang - a story told many times here. At the same time, I sold my Univox Super-Fuzz, the royal blue/red-orange model, highly prized by collectors today. Produced the longest sustain I ever heard.

Very seldom do I ever get rid of any of my gear. I've been playing for over 25 years now and I have about 90 percent of everything I've ever bought. In the very few instances where I have traded something off, it's been because I wasn't really fond of that piece of gear (which I probably got at a steal to begin with) and traded it for something that I really needed or wanted. For example I once had a Crestline acoustic which I had gotten for $50 which I traded for a beautiful Conn 12 string acoustic. I didn't really care of that old Crestline...it was a really cheap, "boxey" sounding acoustic and the Conn was/is just luscious. Most recently I traded a Behringer V-Amp for a Digitech RP-90 because the Digi really fit me much better than the Behringer and the Behringer has been purchased for cheap as an impulse buy anyways.

Very simply, in my many years of playing I've heard this -way- to often..."Yea I had a (insert guitar or amp here) that I sold years ago and I've been kicking myself in the butt ever since...". I just really never understood why anyone would get rid of something they actually liked...that just never made sense to me. I can almost see in some extreme cases...you're out of work and the tax man is coming to repossess your house or your car or something, but with most of the people I've known, that really hasn't been the case...they just up and decided one day to sell it or just trade it for something else. I actually see this from time to time on Craigslist for example "Want To Trade: Fender Standard Strat for X-Box" and you -know- that someday they're going to be one of those people kicking themselves in the butt...I just don't get it.

L8r

My first guitar, was a Knock off Gibson Les Paul...Hondo was the brand. I gave it to a kid who really wanted to play (I had since given up on it) Now that Im playing again, I think about it quite often.

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

My old Bassman (tube) head and 2 X 12 cab. I'd finished college and figured that I'd still have time for a weekend band, social life, time to sleep once in a while, etc. But jobs at the "professional level" don't work that way and by the end of my first year of working life, it was clear (then) that the next time I'd have any time for anything other than work was retirement day. So I sold the Bassman and a couple of pedals I had. (I defiantly tossed the guitar in the closet though ... just in case a rainy day ever came along and I actually had time off and ...).

14 years later, I left that particular career and occupation behind ... and all of a sudden discovered myself with an honest to goodness DAY OFF. So I pulled the old axe out of the closest -- strings long turned to rust and of course ... nothing to plug it into. That's when when it hit me ... I should have never sold the amp.

Fortunately, though, I had the good luck to run into a really sweet Super 210 a couple of years ago. Not quite the same, but close and this time around, there will be no selling it!

The way I figure it, there's no use crying over spilled milk. Besides, there's already enough water in it.

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Yeah nice tele , to be honest always headed straight to the strats in the guitar shops education lacking a bit, SG would be my choice of Gibson,always cast an eye over the arch tops the Joe Pass type guitars, they just look so well crafted & full of rich melody to me , need to rack up some overtime though

My Crafted in Japan RI Rosewood Tele...