don't worry, you'll get another more after you graduated and work

i started off with an ibanez gio, then upgraded to an ibanez SA, so i guess the next guitar will be my last, cause my wallet is crying day and night from all this GAS

haha, buying guitar is like something addictive. right?

Yup. Planning to buy a dethklok guitar or an epiphone prophesy AND the biggest purchase of all, the Herman Li E-Gen hopefully by the end of the year......

It's DAMN addictive.

that's sounds like a LOT of money.

my 1st guitar is a squier strat, with no amp!
just using a mini compo(is tat wat its called?)

Me squier california strat here, but the difference is I definitely could afford those high end guitar on my own if I wanted to. Money isn't that much of an issue.

But the thing is, I never think it's the gear that matters, so why waste the money ?

As long as it's good enough, I will learn until I feel I need better gears to bring out the sound I want.

Right now, I don't even know what kind of sound i want to go for, and i don't really care much about the guitar's tone, as long it's good enough to play, I am happy. To me they're all the same, until I learn to appreciate better tone.

I find that it is a good challenge to bring out good playing/sound out of an average/cheap guitar , so I could correct my mistakes and improve and then when I do play with a good gear, I will sound better.

And also in case i break or scratch my guitar so bad, not so sakit hati as all the mistakes I make would not be repeated in the newer/expensive gear.

This post has been edited by bman: Jan 25 2008, 02:45 AM

I never bought a single guitar hahaha

Dude,

No point being jealous. Some people just happen to pick things up late in their lives but at that point they have the means to buy something which to you might seem expensive but think of it from a newbies point of view. When any newbie opens a book on "How to Learn Blah Blah Blah", one of the main themes would be to buy the best you can afford.

So could it be he's misguided? I picked up the guitar just over a month ago, still struggling but been practicing daily and I have seen some improvements. I've since bought 9. Does that make me arsehole? I tried my hand at DJing sometime last year. I now have 6 turntables. But I've worked hard for all I have and will continue to do so. Just so happens that music came along late in life for me - I didn't have piano lessons at 8 like some people did.

Maybe I'm over-compensating to make up for lost time but I do practice a couple of hours daily and plus, all beginner's books do say "BUY THE BEST YOU CAN AFFORD". Forgive me for trusting them.

Peace bro.

yupe, that's called GAS. haha


wow. 9 guitars in one month? or did I misunderstood your statement.

you must be filthy rich

Don't see what's wrong with a noob guitarist getting a 10k guitar...
If he can afford it, by all means do it...

A friend of mine got a highly figured Peavey Wolfgang EVH guitar for his 4 year-old son...
He bought it around A$5.5k, and tried to sell it to me when he kinda "figured" that his son is too young to play a full size electric guitar...
He also bought a Taylor for his 5 year-old daughter to learn guitar on...

He builds ships and his wife runs an oil company...

He's darn good in guitar too, hear all the sounds/ring tone in your old Nokias?
It's all recorded by him...

Ah... This reminds me to visit him... It's been a while...

This post has been edited by Rossie: Jan 25 2008, 12:14 PM

meh.. I started about 3 years back on a Yamaha ERG-121, have brought it for at least 4 gigs

4 gigs on a RM500 guitar, anyone? haha!

wah rossie, ur friend really kaya la. im jealous as i wish i could afford all those. being jealous of them doesnt mean theyre wrong or anything. if im earning big bucks like him, im definitely getting my kids really good instruments to play with. in my opinion, one of the best things MONEY can buy for your kids besides education(hey, education costs a bomb!) is the chance to truly enjoy music by getting them good instruments.

nerd, ive played God knows how many shows with my old zoom505

Nice guitar.How much will that be?

Anyways,I started of with a 400 bucks TGM paired with a Laney HCM 10 and Zoom505II.At least now I have a better guitar now.Savin up for a new amp.Did feel kinda jealous when I see some guy getting 2 guitars when he plays is Blink 182.

The Gibson LP Zakk Wylde dude is sure lucky.Just hope he doesn't get bored of playing guitar.

Yeah, I would buy the best for my kids if I can afford it...
Really don't mind at all if he/she eventually gives up...

He also added, he have a few friends in the recording industry and their instruments are like few hundred ks (some vintage violins saxophone etc.), and looking back to his guitars, he feels that he's lucky to be playing guitars

His most prized possession is a USD30k Hamer... The wood on that thing is just crazy...
He only goes for rare/highly figured wood guitars though...
The guitars are just a very minor thing about his gears; he spent more than RM1m on his home recording studio...

i've been playing for 12 years... the first 5 i leached off guys who bought guitars but can't play... never had a single guitar until about 7 years...

sometimes it's good to have friends like this... i had one friend who bought a brand new superbike valued at 80k for half the price cause his rich friend got bored of it after riding it for only 8000km... lucky...

yea i know. ive been with friends (musicians) who carry around their 100+k cellos and stuff.

haha, i played few shows with my squier bullet. played in front of datuk hishammudin during some school event using squier bullet playing girl in ipanema. @.@

my first guitar was a sx strats-,-

lulz...........

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lulz........................

Nice song. Dont like the original one, i like the Kenny G one. You must be pro.

I also noob in music. My first bass guitar is SX SBG Sting. My friends said it was a good instrument. So yeah

my first guitar was sx LP copy..
i had no idea on guitar specs or anyting.. i just wanted the LP shape so look like sugizo's guitar.. and pata's guitar