Rich Yuppie Rant!

[Cmogi10]

So I'm sitting there minding my own buisness at my local music store lusting over martins and the sort and this old fat creep comes in. Guys decked out with his 300 dollar sunglasses and little friend

"yes m'am"ing him all over the place with a 5 thousand dollar guitar, not sure what kind, and I lean back because I figure anyone throwing that kind of money down on a guitar has to be able to play?

 

Well that was not the case, the guy was horrible, played like me when I was 12 and playing for 2 years. He's the kinda guy that rattled of the specs of the guitar only because he memorized that the night before.

 

God

 

Grrrr

[babablowfish]

Envy is a killer alright!

[Hudman]

 

Originally posted by Cmogi10 So I'm sitting there minding my own buisness at my local music store lusting over martins and the sort and this old fat creep comes in. Guys decked out with his 300 dollar sunglasses and little friend "yes m'am"ing him all over the place with a 5 thousand dollar guitar, not sure what kind, and I lean back because I figure anyone throwing that kind of money down on a guitar has to be able to play? Well that was not the case, the guy was horrible, played like me when I was 12 and playing for 2 years. He's the kinda guy that rattled of the specs of the guitar only because he memorized that the night before. God Grrrr

 

 

That's life friend. Your rant applies to most things in life.

 

You don't need to know how to play guitar to buy one. All you need is money or a credit card.

 

I listen to guys bitch about old guys buying sports cars and yuppies buying Harleys.

 

Good news is that one day you will be an old guy with money or a credit card too.

 

Keep living.

[Chirpy_72]

I hope you picked up your cell phone, dialed 911 and asked them to send a Waaaaa-ambulance.

 

A guy who makes some good scratch isn't allowed to learn to play guitar?

[Sweb]

Hey, my ex-boss bought them to hang on a wall in his house as decoration, per his interior decorator's grand plan, adjacent to a grand piano. The adjoining walls were decorated with all other stringed instruments including a harp. He doesn't play any instrument - just human beings by bullying. So, wasn't much fond of the guy as a human being but that room looked better than anything I've ever seen in any music store or boutique. Actually, he asked that I arrange the guitars on the wall in a particular manner. And, no, I had to wear cotton gloves lest I streak/mark them in some disgusting manner. So, I couldn't play them. He photographed the wall and I identified each guitar on the photo so he could later have brass escutcheons made to put beneath each guitar. Eccentricities are what they are and we all have them to some lesser or greater degree. The words that describe it in most forumites is by the acronym GAS.

[knockwood]

My GAS is no less stupid than the next guy's but at least it's relegated to {censored} I actually want to play. People have a right to do whatever they want with their money, but I think it's an awful shame to not use a beautiful instrument for its intended purpose. I hope to build guitars some day because I love them. If I'm ever able to turn out anything of quality, I pray it will actually be used to make music.

[kwakatak]

 

Originally posted by Sweb Hey, my ex-boss bought them to hang on a wall in his house as decoration, per his interior decorator's grand plan, adjacent to a grand piano. The adjoining walls were decorated with all other stringed instruments including a harp. He doesn't play any instrument - just human beings by bullying. So, wasn't much fond of the guy as a human being but that room looked better than anything I've ever seen in any music store or boutique. Actually, he asked that I arrange the guitars on the wall in a particular manner. And, no, I had to wear cotton gloves lest I streak/mark them in some disgusting manner. So, I couldn't play them. He photographed the wall and I identified each guitar on the photo so he could later have brass escutcheons made to put beneath each guitar. Eccentricities are what they are and we all have them to some lesser or greater degree. The words that describe it in most forumites is by the acronym GAS.

 

 

The man's living the dream, but yeah I know the type. Was calling you over to "arrange" his collection must have been his sick way of rubbing you nose in it?

[recordingtrack1]

Live and let live.

 

You know, I'd rather have a hundred dollar Esteban and know how to play it than five thousand dollar guitar and have to sit and look at it hanging on the wall. Where's the fun in that?

 

Not that I have anything against money or people who have it, I just don't let myself get caught up in that have and have not thing anymore. It ain't worth the stress.

 

RT1

[Sweb]

 

Originally posted by kwakatak The man's living the dream, but yeah I know the type. Was calling you over to "arrange" his collection must have been his sick way of rubbing you nose in it?

 

 

No. No dream present. I quite actually think he has no concept of human feelings/emotions. The example I gave is just an illustration but he looks at life with a certain objectivity that seems devoid of joy in the simplest sense of the word as if life is an assignment. Weird.

 

Knockwood - Couldn't agree with you more - especially on the GAS to build one. On another note, because vintage instruments are now considered safe bets for investment portfolios they are rapidly disappearing into vaults as assets never to be displayed/played again. I kinda wish they'd do something else and stay out of my psychosis.

[Cmogi10]

hey hey hey

 

I wont lie, it's envy.

 

I don't think he was a begginer, just a guy who tried to play and failed, he had that kind of ego.

 

 

And I dont play to "smoke" anyone, but I know when I'm a better player that the guy next to me...

 

 

Maybe with that 5 grand guitar will make him happy...

 

 

But it would make me just as happy and I could make it sound musical.

 

[riffmeister]

I drive a 13 year old car.

 

But I have loads of guitars.

 

Does that make me a Yuppie?

[min7b5]

Good for him. I wish I could do that. If I had the money I

[Cmogi10]

Originally posted by riffmeister I drive a 13 year old car. But I have loads of guitars. Does that make me a Yuppie?

 

I saw him in the parking lot rattling of the specs to his bmw bike...

 

Do you have Dior sunglasses?

 

if you can check both of those off you might be a yuppie.

 

I love you anyways:thu:

[Tony Burns]

Alot of these wannabees get their kicks out of pretending , probably in debt up to his eyeballs- Money wont buy you happiness but it can buy you some nice guitars !

[riffmeister]

Originally posted by Cmogi10 I saw him in the parking lot rattling off the specs to his bmw bike...

 

Uh Oh. My 13 year old car is a BMW 325i. But I don't talk to it much anymore.

[knockwood]

 

Originally posted by min7b5 I had a beginning student- no joke- got an EC model Martin because we were working on a tune from Clapton

[Sweb]

Originally posted by knockwood Scary to think what lengths he might have gone to if he'd taken a fancy to a Dolly Parton song...

 

- I need to see that guitar - hey, it might be appropriate to fashion it from Knockerwood.

 

Sorry...had to say it.

[riffmeister]

Originally posted by Sweb - I need to see that guitar - hey, it might be appropriate to fashion it from Knockerwood.

 

With a new twist on the double cutaway design.

 

[Cmogi10]

Originally posted by riffmeister Uh Oh. My 13 year old car is a BMW 325i. But I don't talk to it much anymore.

 

 

haha

 

funny guy

 

you win this one....but only because you made me literally laugh out loud

[scottgd]

My nicest guitar is a Martin 000-28EC. Do I have the skills to play it to the fullest? Hell no.

 

Are there people out there playing $250 guitars that could play it better? Hell yes.

 

I played one about 10 years ago and found it to be pretty much the dream guitar for me. So 4 months ago I had the means and the oppertunity to get one.

 

I make no excuses or appoligize.

 

BTW, I'm 49 with a credit card.

[fingerpicker]

You really shouldn't get bothered about stuff like that. In fact it's really noones business what that fella does with his money, if he can play, what he drives, etc.

 

Someone probably put those specs in his ear before he got there, maybe someone who knows how to play better and what to look for.

[T.B.]

Hey! It's folks like that, who keep the economy going.

[Cldplytkmn]

if you get upset about what other people spend their money on, its your fault...

 

who gives a {censored}.

[Andrewrg]

Who knows, he may have been buying it for someone else.

[knockwood]

Hey folks, I know for some it's instinctive to want to rush to the defense of the poor downtrodden rich against the envy-born hostility of those of us who are at least currently less fortunate, but ease up on the guy a wee bit, huh? Hating the rich is an American tradition. Like apple pie... and Martin...