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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:49 pm
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I have been through a lot of this type of sh*t. Those people I couldn't care less about, you know what I mean? Well, one time, when I was 17, this guy came up to me at a gig and said "You call that a guitar? That thing is a piece of crap! Get a REAL guitar!". I was 17 years old and I had 6 guitars at the time. (I had my Epiphone Les Paul Standard with me then) So I tell him, 'Look at this...." I took of my jacket as I was in front of him. I was back from Karate practice and I still had my Gi (suit) on. He saw my black 3rd degree belt and completely backed off. He was such a damn loser...

Anyways man, don't take it personally. They are just people that are materialistic. :roll:

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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:50 pm
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It's never cool to knock anyone's gear - or their ability for that matter. The only thing that counts in my book is attitude. Clearly these clowns are total losers, and they only have anything to say because they feel the need to compensate for their insecurity. Personally I would just patronize someone like that and laugh. It's their problem, not yours.

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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:43 am
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I have never actually played in public, as I've only been playing for a few months; A few folks have seen my guitars {'08 MIM Strat & ?? MIC Squier Tele} as I transported it and a few have commented negatively about it. I just tell them I tried out some $3,000 guitars, but they only made me sound $50 better than the ones I have.

My FIL has played in several bands in the past 30+ years and he said he runs into this crap once in a while. He said he just ignores them, they're never worth the trouble to argue with them.

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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:06 am
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That's a terrible story. People can be so terrible to musicians - ego is horrendous.

I used to gig all the time with a squire p-bass, the cheapest one I could get for a rental when ALL of my gear was stolen right after my car was in an accident. I was 19 and I was poor. I'd take flack for playing an el-cheapo bass but I'd smile and keep playing. I'd casually mention that whenever I played it in a 'session' the producer seemed to love it and the pickup band I was playing with that night, well the bandleader loves the sound. Then I'd list off the dates where I was playing and told the guy to go check it out (I played with 4 pickup bands). It was really, really satisfying to then ask when I could check his rig out at a venue and if he by chance did have a gig I could say I couldn't make it because I was already booked.

Who cares what you play. What I don't get about these tone-guru guys is that if you're running the amp through the P.A. which usually involves a terrible mixer, beat up dynamic microphones, going through a cheap stereo class-b amplifier, into crap FOH speakers your 'perfect' tone is going to be screwed anyway. Everything (outside of sitting with an acoustic instrument) is a compromise down the line. I guess if you start with the best components less is going to be lost but nothing is ever 'prefect' tonally wise. Does spending an extra $1000 get you a 1000% increase in tone? No, probably like 5%. And don't they realize that the tone you get out of the FOH is going to be (usually) hi-passed and notched so the guitars full frequency isn't even being represented, not to mention when you layer it with a cheap crappy behringer reverb unit because the FOH engineer thinks it's awesome. Or better yet, slap some compression on it so there's absolutely no life or dynamic in it. Awesome.

Maybe I'm just too much of an (young) old road guy but people who quest after the 'tone' are sooner or later going to wake up, get married, and start dumping money into RRSP's or saving for their kids college funds rather then buying the newest marketing gimmick the big 2 think up. Hooker played a frikken' epiphone and made better music then we ever will but you never hear about that. Just that Slash's guitar is only $3420934.99 before tax, and that's the guitar you NEED to have.

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Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:24 pm
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Been through this many times with my basses. All are non-USA. All play and sound just fine. So where's the problem?

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