So today I was thinking about cryptocurrency (as most of us cannot avoid doing), looking at all the new bazillionaires, and wondering what would have been, if I had put all the money that I put into guitars, into this latest Tulip craze.
I will not lie. I did feel a pang of regret. But it also led me to open up the cases of the two most expensive guitars I have ever bought, just to kind of see what it was all for.
There is a beautiful smell when you unbox a cased nitro guitar that's been in there for some time (in my case two months since I had been travelling). Some say it improves your mood 10 percentage points (50 index if you are a guitarist). The feelings of regret started receding replaced perhaps by an epicurean view which reminded me that money had no utility in it of itself. A heavy bank account is little cure for the life not lived to the fullest.
I wish that I could take you into the jam room with me. Instead, please see below, in their full glory, my beloved Graveyard II (gotten from Korea after a year of trying to find one. Story on a post somewhere else on the forum) and my 24 fret Modern Eagle V, the craziest impulse purchase of my life (story on a different post)
What do you think? Is there any point in owning expensive guitars or should we all just play $500 utilitarian instruments (let's be clear a used Korean SE can probably do everything one needs) and invest the rest trying to get rich. I know which camp I am on. Forget Bitcoin. I need me a Burst
I will not lie. I did feel a pang of regret. But it also led me to open up the cases of the two most expensive guitars I have ever bought, just to kind of see what it was all for.
There is a beautiful smell when you unbox a cased nitro guitar that's been in there for some time (in my case two months since I had been travelling). Some say it improves your mood 10 percentage points (50 index if you are a guitarist). The feelings of regret started receding replaced perhaps by an epicurean view which reminded me that money had no utility in it of itself. A heavy bank account is little cure for the life not lived to the fullest.
I wish that I could take you into the jam room with me. Instead, please see below, in their full glory, my beloved Graveyard II (gotten from Korea after a year of trying to find one. Story on a post somewhere else on the forum) and my 24 fret Modern Eagle V, the craziest impulse purchase of my life (story on a different post)
What do you think? Is there any point in owning expensive guitars or should we all just play $500 utilitarian instruments (let's be clear a used Korean SE can probably do everything one needs) and invest the rest trying to get rich. I know which camp I am on. Forget Bitcoin. I need me a Burst