Members tlbonehead Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 I use 3-4 at each gig ordinarily, and not always the same 3-4. And I usually don't drage them out of the gig van between gigs, so I play different ones at home and not always the same ones there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 absence makes the heart grow fonder. I usually keep 2 within arms reach, and the others in a closet with new strings on. Once the strings start to fade I rotate them out. I only have 4 and would think many more and some would never get played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flatspotter Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 I play whichever one I feel like playing. Sometimes I pick one up, play it for a few minutes, and put it down in favor of another one. I don't worry about some of them not getting enough attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marc G Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 my cover band plays in Eb so I normally have two guitars in Eb for gigging.... my other 3 electrics stay in E so I can learn songs with out having to tune my giggin' guitars to E and I just play the one I feel like playing that day... Often I'd play one and like it drop the tuning to Eb and use it at a gig.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JonP Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 I have five guitars including one acoustic, and all but one fits a specific purpose for me. The other four get played as desired. It's that fifth, odd man out, that gets neglected. I've just been waiting around for the right one to come along so I can hopefully trade in the other and replace it... If that makes sense. I don't have a strat or a tele... So I'm thinking in going in that direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hozze Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 Different tunings. It's swell not having to worry about feel and intonation when you change key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members photon9 Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 I play whichever one I feel like at that particular moment. I do like to play the same one during band practice though. If I never touch them then they get sold. It happens sometimes. Once things calm down (I just moved) there's a couple I will be offing. I have yet to regret any of the guitars I've sold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members benzem Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 If I had entire days of no responsibility, I wouldn't have enough time to give to my guitars.Guitars give me (us) joy. I have a lot of them. If I don't play one for a while and then pull it out to play, it's a renewed love affair. The return of a somewhat forgotten love and the feeling why you chose it in the first place. I'm going through this with my graffiti yellow American Standard Strat. I'm playing at extremely low volume so that I can hear the strings against it's maple fretboard and squeezing out all these exaggerated bends. I get lost in these ridiculous phrases that seem to be a small time consuming moment but they are re-discovering time capsules. I get lost in the experience and realize there's more toys to play with.I have loads of toys that I don't give the proper time.I have one wife and don't give her enough time.I can't justify it. These things just happen.Sure I'd love to spend days just playing all these wonderful guitars, but I gotta make ends meet.More so in this {censored}ty economy.I've acquired so many cool guitars through the years. Kept some and foolishly let others go.I didn't have a goal or plan to have the amount of guitars that I have. It's like I was 13 in 1966 and these cool guitars followed me home through the years.I'm in the mind set of downsizing and it's a difficult process. I'm toying with the idea of parting with 2 Strats but when I play them.....it's no way.When you're a kid in a candy store, you don't think of the dentist. You just enjoy it. I'm at 106 guitars.I had well over 130 guitars a few years ago.Maintenance, or not dwelling on it, is the joy of the toys.You won't know of the experience unless you're in it. Great post. Very introspective. I can see, if I would have started way earlier in life( than 27) how I may have collected alot of guitars and amps. I keep stuff I like. OP: I had 1 electric guitar for many years and played it every day. I could do that again if I had to. There is something cool about playing just one guitar, it just gets so comfortable. Now I divide my time between about 7. I admit to always loving one a little more than the others, but the affair fades and I see the beauty of another fav in a new way....and so it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 I play whichever one I feel like at that particular moment. That's what I do...sometimes I will start at one end of a rack and play each one for a while moving through a rack at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members photon9 Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 That's what I do...sometimes I will start at one end of a rack and play each one for a while moving through a rack at a time. Yep. Done that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsupermanny14 Posted May 5, 2012 Author Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 OP: I had 1 electric guitar for many years and played it every day. I could do that again if I had to. There is something cool about playing just one guitar, it just gets so comfortable. That's how I feel about my Strat. It was my only player for almost a decade that I'm forever attached to that guitar. I'm very emotionally connected and if I had to I could get by my entire life with it. However, with that being said, nothing gives you the pure classic RAWK sound like a Les Paul. Don't get me wrong, I do have GAS, but at this point the GAS is for "non-essential" guitars. For example, I want an 1980s Fender Pink Floral guitar that I want to keep hung on my wall and look at, not actually play haha. In an ideal world I would have 5 guitars. My Strat, my LP, hollow-body, guitar in Eb, and guitar in D. Seeing as how I'm having trouble giving attention to just two guitars, I think 5 would be the most I could handle playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor Morbius Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 How do you guys give attention to more than two guitars?Didn't you see A Clockwork Orange where Alex was "giving attention" to the two girls he met at the record store in the mall? THAT'S how it's done. Now MAN UP and quit yer whining! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members docjeffrey Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 Ask this dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members docjeffrey Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 ^^He went through 3 fat wives before he finally scored one with a BMI below 30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stormin1155 Posted May 5, 2012 Members Share Posted May 5, 2012 It is a bit frustrating sometimes to have multiple guitars to choose from. Sometimes it's like I want to play them all... At other times I think, "now why in the world do I need so many guitars?... maybe I should sell them all except maybe one or two... maybe three..." Then I think, "Naaa!" and pick up another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 Just buy more amps so you can keep them all plugged in and ready beside each amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Matt Gnarly Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 I usually play my most recently acquired one most which is currently a Fender J Mascis Jazzmaster. Sometimes I feel I have too many guitars but I won't sell guitars that I received as gifts and the only guitar I'm selling isn't getting as much interest I would like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lonnie99 Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 I keep 2 guitars down off the wall on floor stands, whatever is on a stand gets played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Steadfastly Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 If I had entire days of no responsibility, I wouldn't have enough time to give to my guitars.Guitars give me (us) joy. I have a lot of them. If I don't play one for a while and then pull it out to play, it's a renewed love affair. The return of a somewhat forgotten love and the feeling why you chose it in the first place. I'm going through this with my graffiti yellow American Standard Strat. I'm playing at extremely low volume so that I can hear the strings against it's maple fretboard and squeezing out all these exaggerated bends. I get lost in these ridiculous phrases that seem to be a small time consuming moment but they are re-discovering time capsules. I get lost in the experience and realize there's more toys to play with.I have loads of toys that I don't give the proper time.I have one wife and don't give her enough time.I can't justify it. These things just happen.Sure I'd love to spend days just playing all these wonderful guitars, but I gotta make ends meet.More so in this @#!*% economy.I've acquired so many cool guitars through the years. Kept some and foolishly let others go.I didn't have a goal or plan to have the amount of guitars that I have. It's like I was 13 in 1966 and these cool guitars followed me home through the years.I'm in the mind set of downsizing and it's a difficult process. I'm toying with the idea of parting with 2 Strats but when I play them.....it's no way.When you're a kid in a candy store, you don't think of the dentist. You just enjoy it. I'm at 106 guitars.I had well over 130 guitars a few years ago.Maintenance, or not dwelling on it, is the joy of the toys.You won't know of the experience unless you're in it. So you have $50,000.00 or more just in guitars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bbreaker Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 So you have $50,000.00 or more just in guitars? See-This-forum-has-lost-its-way by Docjeffy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Steadfastly Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 See-This-forum-has-lost-its-way by Docjeffy Is that a yes or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaleH Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 Is that a yes or no? that might cover the cases and racks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nicholai Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 Is that a yes or no? I really don't see how his assets are your business or has any value in this discussion. It would be silly of him to reply. He shouldn't have even said that (but I'm glad he let us know the depth of his love for it, what this forum is about). People get shot over ridiculously small sums of money. On topic, I play one, but own nine. The one rotates, but is usually a strat of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 Ask this dude. my wife has 4 sisters. All in BMI They all look so alike there would be no point in being married to all of them. It would simply be Groundhog Day or Attack of the Clone Women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted May 6, 2012 Members Share Posted May 6, 2012 I just make a conscious effort to "rotate through" them, especially for shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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