Members Northstar Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 You buy the guitar, bring it home, play it for a while, maybe keep it for a few years, untouched and then realize WTF was I thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pixelchemist Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 buying my first strat... playing it on and off for a year or so and then not touching it (or any other guitar) for close to a decade... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jr_vw2 Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Think Im going to have to agree with Pixel on that one. Setting down guitar for all of last year. Just picking it back up the past few months....and I am very disapointed with myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor Morbius Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Buying way too many guitars and amps. Should have bought one nice Strat and amp and left it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RufusFussbuster Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 The AS73 I bought last fall. It is really a good guitar for the price, but I never bonded with it. I've never named a guitar, but if I did, this one would be "Dusty", haw haw. That, and not replacing the pickups in my Epi LP sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DIEZELPOWER77 Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Becoming a gearhead, and having bad cases of GAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scuzzo Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 thinking that gear would get you there..spending lots of coin on gear just to sell it off.not realizing that all i needed was one guitar.. and a good amp.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jcat5150 Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Bought a Jackson dinky guitar after i graduated and havent played it in a long time. I really like the pick ups but for the guitar its self dont care much for it. The main problem of it is the FR trem just not a big fan. I am starting to think it was a waste. I wish I would have bought a really nice Les Paul like I have now and a nice amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Assumer Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Selling some guitars I should have kept. Posting here instead of practicing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Spike Li Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Probably my Dan Armstrong. Its my most expensive and least favourite guitar, but at the same time its just something that I have to have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members diagrammatiks Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 epi lp special - failepi dot - was so excited when I got it but just not right. not realizing that guitars needed to be setup properly - total faildown. getting a hollowbody spruce instead of a 513...regret in the making? time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members V-Type Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 I had a Doh! back in 87 when I sold my amazing 1985 Gibson Les Paul Custom Black Beauty. And of all thing too fund the purchase of a new 87 Kramer Barretta.I had too kick in another $200 on top of the Gibby btw.Both are gone one costs about $4000 too replace and the other can be had for under $700 when they surface.Next dumb thing was amp related. Traded a non working(easy fix) Marshall Major head for a SS Crate head and 2 4x12 cabs in the 80's as well.I blame the hairspray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members poolshark Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Not yet starting my own band. I play out, but I really want a project that's just mine. Anything bought with the justification of "just in case," as in, "just in case I need to play surf/jazz/metal." My equipment and I are already more than capable of fitting into most genres just fine, and buying gear on the off-chance that I'll use it one day is just vain. Thinking for too long that guitars really sound significantly different from one another, due to any number of truly minor factors, and are limited as such. They're just wood, magnets and strings. Not learning to read music early on. Ultimate Going through a pedal-geek phase. It really just kept me from developing as a guitarist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Not getting after it when I was 10. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flyinbryan Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 not buying a les paul when an upper end model was 400-500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gergbee Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Trading my first electric guitar for a 12 string acoustic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members chuck1016 Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 I get caught up "chasing tone", it's a big mistake. I spend a lot more time modding, tweaking, changing pickup configurations, etc. than I do actually playing. It's all fun and exciting for awhile, but sooner or later I realized just how much time & money I've wasted dinking around while my recording gear gathers dust and my friends talk about their last show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 I get caught up "chasing tone", it's a big mistake. I spend a lot more time modding, tweaking, changing pickup configurations, etc. than I do actually playing. It's all fun and exciting for awhile, but sooner or later I realized just how much time & money I've wasted dinking around while my recording gear gathers dust and my friends talk about their last show. You took the words right out of my mouth! I haven't recorded anything new in a long long time. Probably over a year. Weird thing is I still GAS for recording gear but what's the point if I don't use what I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jpnyc Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Wasting years and dollars on an instructor who was hung up on teaching with boring old method books full of dumbed-down folk, classical, and jazz. I was always bored with what I learned but never got off my butt and focused on other stuff. I could have spent the cost of one month of his lessons on Metal Method and used all the rest to pay for more guitars. Instead I was lazy and just stopped playing for ten years. That was pretty pathetic on my part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Surfdude Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Selling an early 80's Gibson Explorer. 2nd biggest, selling and early 80's Aria zebra striped strat. Surfy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mistersully Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 missing the boat because i was wasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fewlio Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 reading this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Superrust Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Trading a 91 custom SG in 96 for a new 96 strat. Love the strat but wish I would have had the SG now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bluffalo Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 getting a guitar with a licenced floyd rose as my 2nd guitar (ie not a beginners guitar like my first) great guitar, sounds awesome, looks cool. (its an explorer). but the licenced floyd is really really stuffed now. its unplayable at the moment. I didnt know that there were any differences between floyds... i thought if it had "a" floyd rose it was going to be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Muddslide Posted March 18, 2010 Members Share Posted March 18, 2010 Biggest mistake(s) was accumulating too much gear at different periods. The upside-downside of this is that I was able to collect a lot of great old guitars before "old guitar" meant "vintage collector's item." Essentially, I had a bunch of stuff--including old pre-CBS Fender amps, Strats, Teles, P-basses, J-basses, as well as cool old analog pedals, etc., etc. that I sold in the late 1990s not long before the Internet became ubiquitous, eBay came on the scene and the collector/vintage market really exploded. If I had held onto that stuff, I could have sold it for ten times what I actually sold it for. However, the only stuff I got rid of that I regret no longer having is a '73 Tele and an 80s Tokai P-bass. Oh, and a '65 Vibro-Champ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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