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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:29 am
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It's a cruel-and-vicious cycle, FSB -- no doubt.

Same with my prolific stash of Strat parts.

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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 1:17 pm
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I'm a ok player but a incredible collector. :wink:


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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:34 pm
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If I had the cash, it would probably be all three. :P Actually, I'd like to collect other instruments besides basses or guitars. More so amps and other random stringed instruments.

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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 5:42 pm
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I couldn't part with any of them so guess that might make me a hoarder, but they all do get played semi-regularly so they aren't strictly just hoarded away.

My collecting has definitely drifted from practical though. I started out thinking 3 would do it for electrics - one Tele for country, a Strat with Texas Specials for Blues, and another Strat for everything else. None of the above really did it for me when it came to playing Black Sabbath type of music so got Blackie, then came across a 12 string Strat that needed a home and everything snowballed from there. And every guitar player should have at least one Les Paul after all. When a friend of a friend came out of retirement and started making guitars again, I jumped at the chance to get one of his first. That turned out to double as an investment since his prices have doubled since then.

Played acoustic guitar and banjo for decades before getting into electrics and things seemed much simpler then. One banjo. One or two decent acoustics and a beatup but good sounding Ovation to pass around the campfire. And one amp with two inputs for a guitar and mic. Still have the same banjo, the same Ovation, same amp, and main acoustics are now a Martin and a Taylor so I don't feel too bad about the ones I parted with. Simpler days.

Just looking for the right deal on a Martin 12 string and think I'll be done collecting.


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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 7:41 pm
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Yes, yes and yes.
I realise what I call my weakness is quite likely, in all reality, a mental illness. I've lived with this condition most of my life. From time to time I have forced myself to refuse to give in to my appetites and cull my herds in an attempt to lead something more closely resembling a normal life but like the crazy cat lady down the street, somehow new items just seem to find their way into my place.

If there were local chapters of GASaholics Anonymous I would prolly go to a few meetings.
I know I need help.

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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:09 pm
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fenderfan wrote:
Just looking for the right deal on a Martin 12 string and think I'll be done collecting.

BMW-KTM wrote:
Yes, yes and yes. I know I need help.

:lol: :lol: :lol: ...(please forgive my editing)...yes...we know...it's OK...really...you're OK :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:36 pm
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Premier Guitar article wrote:
Ultimately, there are three types of guitar owners: the player, the collector, and the hoarder
While the title is a good tag for an article that strikes close to home with me, I don't think it is a very good categorization. Especially on these forums, where users are in at least one of these categories.

If I was to categorize myself, I'd have to say collector. Like Larry DeMarzio in the article, I have a small (to some) collection what I consider to be excellent examples.
I wouldn't call myself a player, because I don't do any live work.
I wouldn't call myself a hoarder, because I can't justify all the stuff I'm GASsing for. I need more dollars and less sense. :wink:
Also, keep in mind that this is only my perspective. When it comes to guitars, my mother says I'm a hoarder.
I guess, as with anything Terran or Martian, YMMV.

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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:50 pm
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danagos wrote:
fenderfan wrote:
Just looking for the right deal on a Martin 12 string and think I'll be done collecting.

BMW-KTM wrote:
Yes, yes and yes. I know I need help.

:lol: :lol: :lol: ...(please forgive my editing)...yes...we know...it's OK...really...you're OK :lol: :lol: :lol:

OK - I know. I'm in denial and haven't hit rock-bottom yet! Still need to replace my dearly departed Rumble and there are some Custom Shop amps I've been drooling over.


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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:48 pm
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Uh, huh ..... Who are you kidding?
A Martin 12 and then you're done.
Right.
You're already talking CS amps and you haven't even done the Martin thing yet.
You realize rock bottom is relative ....
Just sayin'.

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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:58 am
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Definitely the Rumble before the 12 string! Doubt if a CS amp will ever come my way though.


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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 6:23 am
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Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

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and the Wisdom to know the difference

between a Genuine pre-CBS Strat and a copy

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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:01 am
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I'm a reasonable collector of player's instruments.

I amassed a decent-sized collection pretty quickly when I first started playing guitar...I was a 19 year old kid with a good job (who got a great job a year later), there were a lot of good-to-great guitars out there at cheap prices, and I was somewhat indiscriminate about what I bought.

Consequently, I stumbled upon some great instruments, as well as some that were not so good.

The collection got decimated terribly by the Great Mortgage Payment Guitar and Amp Collection Massacre of 1994-1996, and never really completely recovered...but...

I found out what constituted a good or great guitar or amp for me.
I discovered that an instrument that works so well for Player A might not "fit" Player B.
I became less brand-snobbish, less country-of-origin-snobbish, and more open-minded about "lesser" instruments (whatever that means).

20 years on, I have re-built a decent collection of player's instruments... And if I'm not playing one of those instruments (for whatever reason), I sell it for something I will play.

I have one semi-collectable, semi-valuable instrument left in my herd, and it's only valuable to a specific type of collector or enthusiast. If it weren't my first electric guitar, I would probably sell it...but the fact it is hard to find a person who realizes the historical (and monetary) value of the instrument, as well as the sentimental value of it (being my first guitar) makes me keep it...there's the only touch of "hoarder" I have...and every time I play it, it remember how well-made it is and how good it sounds.

There are a few instruments I still GAS for (a Thinline Telecaster, a 12-string electric, a 12-string acoustic and a Fender Bass VI come to mind), but I'm not out there grasping wildly at those instruments, even when I have the cash in my pocket. I'll get them when I happen upon "the one."

...and I'm happier for it.

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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:26 am
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Accused of the last two and guilty of all 3.


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Post subject: Re: Player, Collector, or Hoarder
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 1:52 pm
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Yes I Play
Yes I collect
No I do not get rid of anything that has value and use, I guess I hoard
Piles of speaker good and more that need recone
From Hammond B3 , drums, sax, clarinet, guitars, bells, amps, piles of tubes, old pu's that were replaced by better pu's, lots of old stereo speaker cabinets, PA with racks of gear, more cable than I need XLR, 1/4, speaker cable
Between my shed and my downstairs I look like a music store, but I don't sell anything I guess that why I still have a Roland Space Echo 201, Delta lab, ashley, Otari and a Revox 1/2 in 8 channel Reel to reel, 2 4 tracks, a wollensack tube mono recorder ( this by the way make a great tube overdrive) Heck I even have a snoopy AM transistor radio down there, and the list goes on and on and on
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