Holy shit I own 20 guitars!

I had to use my EB list to enumerate, but I own 20 guitars.... shit. I don't use them all so frequently... oh well.

and if you count all my ac30s I am at 9 tube amps

I'm down to 12. Working on selling one of them. I tend to give away the ones that aren't super valuable. I'm selling my LTD Elite-1 Eclipse right now..........

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.......just say'in

not an esp guy or I would buy it

y'know whats fucked up is that I haven't played some of them since I bought them! the hamer I bought with IRS cash, but the rest have bee piling up unused for a year.

But I genuinely like all of them. GAS is a sickness. I need the cure! I will die with hundreds of guitars, amps and synths! I have 8 tube amps sitting around...I have problems.

They are an investment if they are high end guitars. Good for if times get tough, you can sell them and put food on the table or send Lucian to college with.

there's definitely a year or 2 of tuition in my whole home studio if not the guitars.

my mother tried to make me pay for college by selling my instruments. i said fuck off.

There are a bunch of states that have decided to make their community colleges free to all. I don't know how that would work at ALL, but it is happening.

about fucking time. they've been that way in Canada and Australia since... always.

ill help you thin the heard if needed, I'm at 1 electric and 1 acoustic but later this year ill be adding a real bass and a either used les paul special, or a fender thats not a strat

i wish i lived in the uk so i could go to college and drop out in band and nit have to pay back 20-60k and the guitar music scene there is still alive and well unlike in most of the us where hip hop and electronic is the current scene

not to mention the fact that a lot of hip hop songs have the laziest beat ever made by holding down one button on garageband and they all use the same backing track for their "raps," which are really just slowed-down slam poetry.

i wish i lived in the uk so i could go to college and drop out in band and nit have to pay back 20-60k and the guitar music scene there is still alive and well unlike in most of the us where hip hop and electronic is the current scene

you know they'll subsidize your band there? Not only can you be a college drop out but if you fill out the proper forms you can get paid by the fucking Queen to attempt to make it. Of course if you do happen to make it Britain taxes its entertainment industry at around 50%, so the queen makes it back.

have you been to England? dance music is bigger than rock there and ahs been for years, its like their hiphop to a certaine xtent.... their rock music is more of a state-sponsored export commodity like jazz here

and I don't think I plan to thin the herd subtantially

I wouldn't thin that herd.

all those double cuts........mmmm!

But I agree with Blake, British rock is at least alive. American rock doesn't exist anymore.

what about.... umm, those American guys, who are young and rock and sold a lot of records and and and.... oh wait, I guess you guys are right. I can't think of any new mainstream rock bands from the states.

I have a real thing for double cuts.... its not so much that I use the upper frets but that I like to know that I can. I wanna get some off-brand new doublecuts, like a revstar and a reverend sensei and/or manta-ray. I think they make a silver sparkle sensei so I kinda need that. And I really want an inca silver hardtail strat. I said I'd never buy another stock fender but the Robert cray signature model really hits the mark. Comes in silver, hardtail, rosewood fingerboard.

I'm liking 20 as a number though so I might dump the harmony I bough at a flea market recently. She's fixed up okay now and is probably worth good money to some hipster doofus. I could probably turn a hefty profit on a guitar that I bought for 100 dollars and invested maybe 20 bucks of parts and labor into repairing. I'm kinda back and forth on this epi bonamassa signature firebird I impulse bought at sam ash. It has all the appointments I want in a firebird, 1 pickup, big neck etc, but I have only played it twice and one of those times was yesterday when I reviewed it. I hate that its a bonamassa. Even though he and I agree on stuff in theory I think he's such a tool bag. There's something about that guy's face, and style and inexplicable popularity that rubs me the wrong way. But its the only non-custom-shop current production firebird I, right? Nashville doesn't make one! And I want a firebird like Clapton played when he was in blind faith. Thing is, its a 700 dollar axe that feels like a 700 dollar axe, not like some guitars where they feel much nicer than you expect based on the pricetag. And Bonamassa is a tool bag. Decisions, decisions.

my mother tried to make me pay for college by selling my instruments. i said fuck off.

I had to pay my way.... it limited where I could go and instead of getting to attend some of the A list art schools I was admitted to and getting to move to NYC I went to the state school's art school that had its own campus back then. So I wound up commuting, living at home the first 2 years, working at a recording studio and falling out of love with illustration and graphic art in general and it was a wasted education I never use. But thanks to a pretty comprehensive scholarship and the low in-state tuition my loan debt was so small I paid it right off in 1 or 2 big lumps and was done with it.

The Revstar is an excellent guitar and I highly recommend it. The best one is the 420, it's affordable and has excellent QC. Missing some of the appearance bells and whistles from a higher end RS, but it gets the job done and then some. It also has a weird fucking "not-coil-tap" thing that just kind of rolls off the humbucker-ness and gives you a single coil sound without losing the power of the pickup.

I played a 600 dollar one awhile ago at the same sam ash I got the firebird from later on. If they had had the color I wanted when I bought the firebird I probably woulda bought the revstar instead. I've been in the market for a firebird for years now but the revstar is nice as hell. To my ear the 'single coil' control is a some extreme treble bleed network values.. I don't ehar single coil from it, but its neat. A little different than the reverend reverse tone control on the lows but the same basic spirit. I thnk Yamaha took a lot of cues from joe naylor on the revstars. I mean, REVerend, REVstar? Its like if reverend made a modern Super Flighter. Anyway. I am kinda looking at a beat up silver robert cray on ebay right now. If I pull the trigger I'll sell something.

The harmony must go, I am iffy on the firebird and I could do without my talman which I forot I owned until this weekend when I found it neglected in a case in a closet. If I ever get around to fixing up my Carvin I might sell that too.

now I own 19 guitars. My old harmony lasted a few horus on craigslist. Guy's meeting me tomorrow with cash. Wow.

I've only had one person who really wanted my ESP Elite and he only wants to trade guitars and pedals for it. sigh

yeah, I hate that... i wound up doing a partial trade for one of my Marshall Superleads because it was so valuable and the economy was tanked. No one could get near my very reasonable asking price in cash and I didn't want to ebay it. I broke down and wound up slowly selling and trading off the trade gear.

I think your trouble is that the ESP les paul style are not the best regarded japanese singlecut. Decent singlecuts though they are, they don't have a huge rep outside of heavy music circles and when i think ESP I think shredder guitars... when i think classic styles I think of their Edwards and Navigator sub-brands.