I Just Couldn't Help Myself

[alantig]

Most of us have run into the tired old "PRS guitars have no soul" claim in various forums. It's an argument you can't win - these people have their mind made up and they know Brand X just has more soul/mojo/vibe than a PRS, and they know it because they spent 37 hours going through various Brand X guitars to find THE ONE (with no comment about the ones that didn't measure up). I try to stay out of these discussions unless they're legitimate, intelligent conversations as opposed to diatribes.

Tonight, on another guitar forum, someone posted about the GC sell-off, and one of the posters said something like, "Meh, PRS have no soul. They're the Taylor of electric guitars." And I said to myself, "I'm not going to respond. I'm not going to respond. I'm not going to respond."

I lost that fight. The hell I'm not going to respond.

It was a very simple response.

"Yeah. No soul. Right."

And then I played my trump card.

I tried to take the high road, really I did.

I failed.

But it felt good.

 

[László]

Haha! Excellent choice, my friend!

 

[tbp0701]

I'm often torn between my desire to take the high road and my inherent need to call out BS for what it is.

As an aside, my first thought in reading the comment from the other forum is that Taylor electrics seem pretty cool, too.

 

[jfine]

Let's get one thing straight right now. Your soul is not in your guitar. They're inanimate objects, tools if you will, into which we project our soul. Or not, depending on the player. Players have soul. Or not. Guitars don't. Back in the mid-'60's, when I was a teenager, Mosrite's advertising slogan was "The guitar with built-in soul." I remember thinking, "I don't want my guitar to have a soul--I've already got one!"