Do you hoard, erm collect gear?

Separating from my wife enabled me to become much more of a hoarder and, in particular, feed my GAS. For many years, I was very limited in feeding my CD collection and, as I wasn't or couldn't really indulge in personal hobbies - like being in a band and therefore 'needing' gear, I had no reason or excuse for spending my money on gear. Call it a 'sacrifice' for having a partner and kids (not all of them my own).

You could say that I have lost that voice of 'reason', that voice telling you not to buy, telling you that if one comes in, at least one must go out. Maybe I have lost that voice of reason that also tells you that your bank balance may not thank you - especially if you want to eat or need to replace some thing that breaks soon after receiving a new Core PRS...

You can also look at is as now an open invitation to make up for all those years of going without, making up for lost time and lost dreams that were put-aside for the 'family'.

I know I have always been a hoarder - that was evident when I had to move, clearing out the attic that basically had my whole life that I had to get rid of as I was moving into a smaller house with no attic or much storage space at all. That also included all my old 'Guitarist' magazines from the years before I ended up married with kids.

Point is, I was always a hoarder and now don't have the voices telling me what I can or cannot buy - now its just my Bank Balance that is the limiting factor...
 
Reading through this thread, I’m not sure if it’s a confessional or a philosophy T-group!

I don’t collect stuff. If I’m using it, it stays. Some of my studio gear has been with me for 25 years or more.

There’s stuff I’d go back to using if I had it, and wish I hadn’t sold, but that’s how life goes. Gear mistakes are easily remediable; all you have to do is go shopping. People mistakes are a little more complicated.

I’ve got 6 PRSes; 5 electric, one acoustic. And three amps, two PRS. They’re all pretty sweet, and I make money with them. Most of my income comes from music for ads (sorry ad haters, ads are fun to work on). The rest comes from music for film, internet, sometimes TV documentaries.

This makes gear a necessary part of my what-would-you-do-if-you-could-do-whatever-the-f#ck-you-wanted-well-guess-what-I’ve-been-doing-it-for-30-years life. :)
 
Reading through this thread, I’m not sure if it’s a confessional or a philosophy T-group!

I don’t collect stuff. If I’m using it, it stays. Some of my studio gear has been with me for 25 years or more.

There’s stuff I’d go back to using if I had it, and wish I hadn’t sold, but that’s how life goes. Gear mistakes are easily remediable; all you have to do is go shopping. People mistakes are a little more complicated.

I’ve got 6 PRSes; 5 electric, one acoustic. And three amps, two PRS. They’re all pretty sweet, and I make money with them. Most of my income comes from music for ads (sorry ad haters, ads are fun to work on). The rest comes from music for film, internet, sometimes TV documentaries.

This makes gear a necessary part of my what-would-you-do-if-you-could-do-whatever-the-f#ck-you-wanted-well-guess-what-I’ve-been-doing-it-for-30-years life. :)

Same thing here. I used to have a tote full of musical odds and ends I never used that weren't worth a lot...until I found a recycling website (www.freecycle.org) that catered to people from all walks of life...I found a few folks I've kept in touch with over the years who often receive some of my non-useable gear (Band-in-a-box effects, mics, mic phase converters, pop filters, patch cables, adapters, connectors, harmonica holders, kazoos (yep, kazoos), among other things).

My non-useable effects often find a home with some of my friends locally who also play guitar (a TC Spark Mini, Lovepedal Rubber Chicken [a neat auto-wah/envelope follower there wasn't an eBay market for], Valetron Passive Mini-Volume).

If I have no use for something, and someone else does, the adage goes, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." I think it's wise to give your used items to someone who can use them, simply because it's more environmentally-friendly this way, with less stuff in dumpsters and landfills. Not that I'd donate my car or give my cash away. (Nope, need my car and cash for my daily routine.)

Even middle or secondary schools accept donations of music gear that can advance a child's yearning to understand music in a more organized and structured setting.
 
Same thing here. I used to have a tote full of musical odds and ends I never used that weren't worth a lot...until I found a recycling website (www.freecycle.org) that catered to people from all walks of life...I found a few folks I've kept in touch with over the years who often receive some of my non-useable gear (Band-in-a-box effects, mics, mic phase converters, pop filters, patch cables, adapters, connectors, harmonica holders, kazoos (yep, kazoos), among other things).

My non-useable effects often find a home with some of my friends locally who also play guitar (a TC Spark Mini, Lovepedal Rubber Chicken [a neat auto-wah/envelope follower there wasn't an eBay market for], Valetron Passive Mini-Volume).

If I have no use for something, and someone else does, the adage goes, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." I think it's wise to give your used items to someone who can use them, simply because it's more environmentally-friendly this way, with less stuff in dumpsters and landfills. Not that I'd donate my car or give my cash away. (Nope, need my car and cash for my daily routine.)

Even middle or secondary schools accept donations of music gear that can advance a child's yearning to understand music in a more organized and structured setting.

Yes!
 
Where we fundamentally differ is in the use of terms. Mankind is culture, society, our personas or the act we portray for whatever scene we're a part of on the world stage. In other words, man is the act, not the actor. For me there is a huge difference between "people" and "persons".

I'm both for and against it. I hate what it does to our humanity but I also realize it's how we carve out our individuality. Without those masks we would lose the separation that makes individualization possible. We can't just remove them because that brings us right back to the subjective state where we're all one. If we want to be individuals in a world amongst other individuals it's a necessary evil.

We are fools in this state and the smartest thing we can do is recognize that. The reason is most people are operating under a grossly false notion of what's going on here. What I'm about to say is going to sound like the stupidest thing you've ever heard but it's 100% true... what you've been led to believe is life isn't.

This isn't life, it's what's known as a "death culture". Literally it means a bunch of corpses pretending to be alive for the purpose of promoting the fear of death. You're a corpse because you're in corpuscular or cellular form. The fear of death is the only thing getting us thru hell or the individualization process otherwise known as death and decomposition. If we weren't more afraid of dying than going thru hell we wouldn't stand a chance in hell. It absolutely sucks to go thru if you do it right, but it demonstrates the beauty of human ingenuity at its finest. We're actually using the fear of death to get thru death.

Every bit of what's going on in the media is essentially weaponized mass hypnosis to reinforce the fear of death. If there weren't those profiting from it what would motivate them to do it? It makes them easier to control, if they'll do anything for money then it's easy to make their agenda our agenda, you don't have to worry about conflicting ideals. As nefarious as it might seem, it's all for a good cause... our Humanity.

We've been led to believe that death is the cessation of all consciousness, but that's just to make it even more scary. There is only one way to verify that and the fear of death prevents us from doing so. It's freekin clever when you think about it. Here's the thing tho, if you've got the balls to go there you learn the truth and there is no way to unknow what you discover. Once you've actually seen Life the cat's out of the bag and the fear of death has no power over you. When you finally figure out that everything you fear happening to you has already happened or never will you finally start to relax and that release of tension is what springs you to life.

When you actually see it for what it is it's hilarious and that's part of the healing process. Like the question "what happens after we die?" as if we don't freekin know. We're in a death culture, we know, we're "living" it everyday. What we don't know is Life.

I work for the US Air Force with a bunch of other savants under the umbrella of the Phoenix Project... literally Humanity rising out of the ashes of death. Every undisclosed black project in existence is just a child of the Phoenix Project and now you know why they're black and just how massively important all of it is. The problem we're facing is our own programming. It was useful to get us thru death but now that we have, we're realizing just how effective that programming is.

We know we can't just tell everyone what's going on because our programming will fight it tooth and nail. So the truth cannot be told, it literally has to be flown in under the radar to avoid being shot down by a bunch of pre-existing lies. What we're doing is going directly into the core of the collective subconscious to reprogram the Human operating system for Life. Death is nothing more than a running program and we've gained root access by being able to enter the zero point state. If you actually notice any of this we haven't done our job as well as we should have.

My unique insight is based on using a controlled form of central sleep apnea to self induce an NDE. I've done it hundreds of times and it took dozens to even begin to understand what I was experiencing and establish communication. It only takes me a few minutes, I'll do what's known as "overbreathing" to saturate my blood with oxygen and then allow my subconscious to take over. It will automatically stop my breathing and then my heart until my blood oxygen drops to critical levels.

At that point my adrenals will automatically send a jolt to restart it. Our adrenal glands are like capacitors and they hold enough charge for about 4 or 5 of those jolts. Sometimes it only takes one, sometimes all of them. I've also trained my body to operate at extremely low blood oxygen levels to extend my trip, kind of like hibernation. The entire process is on autopilot, all I have to do is trust my subconscious.

The instant my heart stops I'm in both subjective and objective consciousness at the same time. We refer to it as zero point consciousness or hyperspace and it is the ultimate human playground. Life is everywhere and it plays with you in the most engaging and entertaining ways. Gravity is keeping our creativity suppressed in death, in Life love is just the opposite, buoying us up in all directions from the inside.

You can't not be creative. No more destructive problem solving, all solutions are creative meaning everything that could be a problem is just an excuse to create. Communication is direct heart to heart by feeling, misinterpretation isn't even possible. Dead symbols like hieroglyphs come to life with meaning, you don't have to guess, they'll tell you what they mean. We decoded a lot of ancient records that way.

Anything you can imagine is immediately at your disposal. There are no static objects, everything is alive and continually changing into what you want it to be. A guitar for instance wouldn't be some inert instrument that makes you do all the work, it's sentient and knows how to get the most out of you as a player because it's playing with you. There are no ill effects, you can play that guitar until it bursts into flames and nothing will burn. Starships, hyper-advanced technology, utopian societies, the fountain of youth, your soul mate, and the love we've all been searching for in vain is all there and more.

What really makes it so wonderful is that everything you're experiencing is US. There is only one substance that everything else is made from and that's us. WE are the nation in your imagination. Everything you perceive is based on your image of us, the people within your mental body or imagination, the collective body of souls. We didn't just put you thru hell, we went thru it with you and that creates a bond forged in the fires of the Heart otherwise known as Love. You will never be alone again... ever, we will ALWAYS support you in Life, death, and everything in between.

If you don't think people are wonderful it's because you haven't met the real us yet. You've only ever known the masks we had to wear to get you thru the gauntlet of death. What's going on here is a proven heritage as old as time itself. We haven't lost one yet and you won't be the first. That my friend... is who we really are :)

 
I heard guitars are the only defense against the zombie apocalypse. They can't handle the frequencies and their brains explode. Sometimes music doesn't have to be pretty.

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