Doesn't it make y' crazy when...

Somebody plays a guitar you "know" is a piece o' junk and you cannot bear...and they make it SING?

Somebody plugs into an amp, pretty much the above?

Somebody plays a piece of music you could never get into, and suddenly you can't get it out of your head and can't wait to prowl the fretboard, looking for it?

Somebody plays your UN-favourite type of/gauge of strings and you really like the sound?

Somebody plays some instrument you always thought was cosmic stupid, and you fall in love with it?

Please feel free to extrapolate here from.

Some parent buys his kid a $2500 guitars to learn on and the kid promptly covers it with stickers and almost totally destroys it from bashing "the stupid guitar" about when he can't play like Steve Vai in 2 weeks.-This actually happened to a dealer friend of mine. Momy and Daddy pulled up to the store in their $80,000 car to but Daddy's pride and joy a Christmas gift and the little darling wanted a guitar -and he wouldn't settle for anything less than a Steve Vai Ibanez Jem.Anyway my buddy pleaded with him and his parents to start him off on a nice Squier starter kit.The parents agreed but young fella would have no part of it and threw a tantrum right there in the store of Titanic proportions-he was 14 or 15 too.Mommy and Daddy caved in to the little darling's theatrics and bought him the guitar.The next March a very sheepish Dad returned to the store with the once proud beauty in a state of total destruction and wondered if he could get at least some money for it.My buddy told him that the guitar was now practically worthless as the little snot was much stronger than he looked and had done irrepairable damage to it.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

It makes me crazy when I think of all those years I stumbled along with junk for gear. and never knew why I wasn't quite as good as those other guys. I thought it was all skill. Now I finally get it. Like being a good Mechanic If you want to do good work you need good tools. I think I knew it all along I was just being cheep.
----Danny,

It makes me crazy when I walk into a music box store and among the metal head wannabe's endlessly trying to outshred the next guy on their line6 Spyder demo amps you find a 15 year old in the corner killing "Cliffs of Dover" on a Squier. That kid deserves a nice guitar...

I hate seeing truly talented musicians wasting their talent in cover bands.

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I empathise with all of that. 'Cept it all makes me delighted, not crazy.

Cheers - C

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When idiotic 12 year olds get expensive gibsons and other guitars and destroy them with stickers and mods unless they want them to be on there for the rest of the guitar's life?

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Musos can be a pain!!!

But if you have 15,000 they will give you free Fenders

when the person you inspired to pick up a guitar is heaps better than you in 4 months.

when you spend lots of money modding your guitar to your perfect tone, and then you see a cheaper guitar with exactly th tone you were after, possibly better.

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riley

When stores have these stupid in July sales,it may have been cute and novel when the first store came up with the idea umpteen years ago but now it's just annoying when everybody has them and still posts it like it's an amusing,funny and original idea.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

When people ONLY listen to what they hear playing on the radio and their iTunes library consists of maybe 20 bands and s***load of single tracks..... at least give something different a chance for Christ's sake

People learn how to sweep pick and think they are god

Good music goes out of print/is impossible to find

People say that any music after X year is garbage.... again, at least give something slightly different than the five classic rock bands you listen to a chance

Good bands turn into absolute whores.... I'm looking at you, The Offspring

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Favorite bands:

Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

You let somebody play your pride and joy and they bring out the best of the guitar and there only your nef, and he,s only 18, going on 61 with 40 years of talent,and a hupe full of skills that you wish you could assertain, then gives you back your pride and joy and looks ya right in eye and says, that was a pleasure, wish I could have one someday, knowing that when you flat line theres no one else your going to give it to then him,smiles and walks away, leaving you realizeing that it's a god given gift and all your efforts amount to old timers syndrome, and Mr Fender made it knowing that this guitar was going to end up in this young mans hands, thus be the legacey of Mr Fender.!!
To carry on, to carry on!

Keeps telling you they want to jam or start a band and everytime you make an effort, they are busy or just don't return your calls or email.

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WHEN SOMEBODY PLAYS YOUR GUITAR AND PUTS HUGE $@! DINGS IN IT AND THEN ACTS LIKE IT WAS ALREADY THERE! AND NO APOLOGY! I am sorry but why is it EVERY guitar player who sees another guitar player HAS TO, ABSOLUTELY HAS TO play their guitar?? Sorry, but I don't let people touch mine now, not after too many dings.

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1965 Fender Precision Bass, 1994 Fender '54 Reissue Precision Bass, 2007 Applause Celebrity, 2011 Fender American Special Jazz Bass, 2012 Squier Vintage Modified Jazzmaster, 2013 Fender American Special Stratocaster, 2013 Gibson LPJ

There are just a handful of people whoI let touch my guitars,anyone else is risking life and limb.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

My guitars are all beat up and that's how I like em. I throw em around, hit $@!& with them, beat the $@!& out of em while I'm playsing to get interesting noises, lol. I have some $@!& that is not so cheap either, my J5 Triple Tele is my go to song for some of our bigger spngs. $@!& I miss being back in the US and playing. Anyone in VA is free to come check us out at the Jewish Mother in VA Beach, The Rebel Flesh.

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