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Why do you play guitar?
For fun (stress relief - study) 60%  60%  [ 43 ]
For the Ladies/Dudes (I need all the help I can get) 7%  7%  [ 5 ]
For the money (now or in the future - I love it) 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
For the money (I've lost my passion) 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
For the fame (I'm an attention seeker) 10%  10%  [ 7 ]
I think guitars are pretty (I'm a collector) 14%  14%  [ 10 ]
What is a guitar? 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
How dare you make a post on my forum and force me to read it! 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 12:32 pm
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I do it for fun and stress relief.

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I need an "other". I play guitar for song writing purposes, but I'm a bassist in that it is my preferred instrument and my "voice" musically.

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:08 pm
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For Fun. Used to do the band thing but I have terrible stagefright so didn’t really enjoy playing live. Last band situation I was in was strictly writing tunes for fun and taking advantage of the unlimited access to the equipment being employed at an audio post facility. I enjoyed that much more. We weren’t immune to band drama though… I watched in horror as the bass player decided to take over drums even though he had just taken up the hobby. Fell apart shortly thereafter.

Now I just plink on the couch. Hopefully one day I’ll find some dudes to jam with for fun but don’t really care about gigging really.

I also hope to get into building kits as a retirement hobby. I really enjoy soldering pickups and doing my own setups.

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:16 pm
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TheKingofPain wrote:
I need an "other". I play guitar for song writing purposes, but I'm a bassist in that it is my preferred instrument and my "voice" musically.


Good point, I didn't think of that. I've often wondered about what motivates others to play. I knew a drummer that played guitar for the same reason, he would never play for an audience but he wanted to be involved in the song writing process of the band. I thought that was pretty cool.

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For Fun. Used to do the band thing but I have terrible stagefright so didn’t really enjoy playing live. Last band situation I was in was strictly writing tunes for fun and taking advantage of the unlimited access to the equipment being employed at an audio post facility. I enjoyed that much more. We weren’t immune to band drama though… I watched in horror as the bass player decided to take over drums even though he had just taken up the hobby. Fell apart shortly thereafter.

Now I just plink on the couch. Hopefully one day I’ll find some dudes to jam with for fun but don’t really care about gigging really.

I also hope to get into building kits as a retirement hobby. I really enjoy soldering pickups and doing my own setups.


Same here, I don't have any desire to play for others but I enjoy it just the same. I don't have stage fright though. I did in college, I failed miserably in a speech one time. I could tell the audience felt sorry for me, thank goodness they took mercy on me. I put together a series of words that made no sense at all then just stood there, perhaps they were too confused to heckle me :lol: I got over it though.

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:48 pm
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A music influence from my family, singers dancers guitarists drummers and music lovers in general. I did not think of the choices in the poll until I had already learned to play guitar lol.

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I play guitar because of the beatles???????


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None of the above apply for a choice... I play guitar because... it's what I was meant to be doing here on this crazy Marble we revolve around the sun on...
It isn't about $$$... chicks... fame... It's what I love to do and because of this... It's how I make my living... If it was about $$$.... fame blah blah etc.... I would've went into politics or became a lawyer or something :lol:

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 2:32 pm
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Because I just love it, guitars are awsome!

I love they way they sound, the way they feel, the way they look......


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I used to do it for the Chicks but, now I'm married and I'm definitely not rich so, it's for fun and a stress reliever. Plus the love of creating music.


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Along with my poll answers, I would probably add, because I don't like watching TV.
I didn't choose "for the chicks", but I met my first fan, (that's not related to me), this past weekend, and I admit it was kind of cool.

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It's all about the chicks.


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I play guitar because I love music. My world without music is nothing because my music means the world to me and I've been kind of lucky to have some success with it.

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:20 pm
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Drew365 wrote:
Along with my poll answers, I would probably add, because I don't like watching TV.
I didn't choose "for the chicks", but I met my first fan, (that's not related to me), this past weekend, and I admit it was kind of cool.


+1 on the TV
Very few decent shows or programs anymore. It's just stress TV and bad drama. I have been watching "The Walking Dead" and "The Blacklist", the wife and I sit down together for those. The news programs are either bland (cat stuck in a tree) or extremely one sided agenda driven hype - on either side.

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omar59 wrote:
Because I just love it, guitars are awsome!

I love they way they sound, the way they feel, the way they look......


8)


+1, because I love it. Wasn't an option for that so I didn't vote.


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