mardi, décembre 07, 2004 So I'm not in a band, so what? I recently told a friend that I had sold off my old guitar because I wanted to save up for a newer, better one - possibly a Taylor or a Takamine or a Gibson (if I was inclined towards the electric.) I'm eyeing a Taylor, which would cost close to a thousand dollars if I bought a medium-range one - well worth the money for the sound that it produces.My friend, who is a pretty good guitarist, asked me a series of questions: was I planning on taking up serious guitar lessons? (No.) Was I joining a band? (No.) Was I playing regularly in church without amplification? (No.) Then he asked incredulously, "Then what for you need a good guitar?" Do I need to want to be Sheryl Crow (and not just wish it) and do everything in my power to walk that road towards guitar superstardom in order to justify the purchase of a $900 guitar? Does anyone who wants to buy a Mac want to run AutoCAD and FinalCut Pro on it? (I'm not dissing Mac fans, just extending the argument.) Does someone need to justify the desire to buy a good instrument with the desire to become an expert in it? Can't someone just get a good instrument and use it for rudimentary stuff while dreaming of bigger things? I didn't play so much on my lower end guitar because I didn't like it as much, so I wasn't inclined to picking it up and strumming whenever. So I got quite ticked off with the lousy logic behind his thinking and tuned out as I let him ramble on about the merits and demerits of some lower range guitars which don't produce as good a sound as a Taylor. In other news, I'm just come home from a 6 day trip in Thailand. Pictures of Japan and Thailand up soon, I promise. I went parasailing! And braided my hair. (I should go to K-Box and sing Joss Stone songs.) NEW - Pix of my hair! Before I unravel it tmrw.
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