Thursday, January 17, 2008
Don't feel bad... I worked out the other day that most guitar players are lucky to break even after trading all their guitars (don't tell that to your wife) back and forth over the years. Those that DO make a profit, tend to end up owning stores... first on-line stores, then an actual location on the street. They have that knack that most musicians don't have... the ability to barter, and come out ahead. We musicians are not into that.. not really. We know what we want, when we want it... and if someone is offering us $320 less than we originally paid for it... we tend to take it. When we need new equipment, we need it NOW. Maybe it's time for a humbucker, or a thinner neck... or a different brand guitar that will continue to inspire you. But then I think we all feel bad... we add up the losses, and lament. Could we have been more careful... not to have bought the guitar we now want to sell again (on EBay)? But let me end on one note... if you take your girlfriend (or wife) to Carmel-By-the-Sea, and eat lunch and stay the night... let's say it cost you $900.00. Do you lament over money you no longer have, and an 'intangible' memory of the happy trip? NO. YOU DONT. So if you enjoyed that Day-Glo Orange Jackson for a week, and had never had a fretboard with shark teeth inlays, and got to play it a while...before selling it for a $900 loss... why lament? You have the memory...ONLY lament if you did nothing with that guitar...at all, while you owned it.