Oldskool Texas

One bicep tat: $200, two hours. I had a great artist (Brandi DiPietro at Atomic Tattoo in Austin) who does excellent work in a very clean shop. I have no regrets.

Dr. Wanker: it's no longer 1955 or 1975 or whenever it was that you formed your opinions on tattoos. Try to catch up.

Yeah I know, but I thought it was worth a shot.

"The only reason a man should own a John Mayer cd is to get a girl to take off her pants."

-----something I read somewhere

Yes, as has been established a thousand times, Gibson QC can be spotty. We've all seen good ones and bad ones and we've exhausted this topic.

So here are your options:

a) play a whole bunch of Gibsons until you find a good one.

b) buy something else

/thread, please?

In a band situation, I can't think of a more crucial skill than a good sense of rhythm; to me, it's more important than speed, licks, or even tone.

If you can't play in the pocket when you need to (and play out of it when it's right for the song) it doesn't much matter what else you can do.

Wow. I'm surprised you were able to tear yourself away from Antiques Roadshow long enough to respond.

Stunning comeback, ace.

If the day ever comes that I start watching other people buy {censored} for entertainment, shoot me.

Yeah well the boring way you run your stuff, I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Eat my {censored}. Nobody cares what you like.

Oh well. I don't sell my guitars on eBay so others can be entertained.

I just sold two guitars - one auction, one best-offer. At one point I had 25 watchers on the auction. Nobody bid until the last three seconds, so the opening bid won it. Glad I set a decent starting amount.

On the other, the BIN price was about a hundred fifty more than I thought I'd get, so I took the first offer that came in $75 under.

After you pay the listing fees and the PayPal fees, you don't clear all that much, so I take no chances.

Music and bicycles. That's it. The bike keeps my body fit, music my soul.

I guess that's the question the OP has to answer - would he miss it when it's gone.

Of course, this might depend on how much he likes what he replaces it with. I missed my Strat until I got my 339, but I haven't thought about it since.

OTOH, I once replaced a Tele with a Godin, and regret it to this day.

Anyone who followed my "I must be nuts" thread knows I just went through the same thing. You should keep it, for two reasons:

1) you said, "I like it a lot when I do play"

2) you said, "I do like playing it when I pick it up"

Why get a used Standard anything, when you have a more unique guitar that you know you like?