Shopping....

Do you spend more time shopping for guitars than playing them? Is the excuse that you are searching for the Holy Grail of Guitars? What does Keith Richards do? Ahhhh... all will be answered, please sit down. We are all similar. We are all looking for the perfect guitar. Ideally, we would like ONE guitar, that we can identify with in sound and feel, that we can strap to our bodies and also go to bed with. When we become famous and die, it will be the guitar they identify with the legend (haha). Bo Diddley had his square guitar, and B.B. had his Lucille... but how did they do it? How did they manage to pick just one? Isn't that what all greatness does... find one guitar at a time to lavish their time on? How about Clapton... and "Blackie"? How about Jeff Beck and his Esquire? I think most musicians know... to get great on guitar... you should connect with one, and make it an extension of your being. After that, when you ARE well known, roadies give you a guitar they've found for you, friends and luthiers send them to you, and you go shopping at the Vintage room in Hollywood... and your girl gets you one. Only when you are well known does the collection grow.... I know Mark Knopfler has tons... he actually owns one I used to have too...Mick Jagger admits to over one hundred now I think...so let's go to our closets, get all those guitars out, and pick one or two we feel we would take to our grave... and sell the rest.... then really...I mean REALLY... get to know those few remaining guitars well....