Guitar love: Is it wrong?

I think you're ok for now Dave. But if you give it a girl's name, start putting dresses on it, caressing and kissing it, then you might have a problem.

I love my guitars too.Especially my rickenbacker.What`s not to love.When was the last time your guitars whined at you for something.When did a guitar complain that you do nothing around the house after you come home from working 12 hours straight.When was the last time......you get the idea.No matter how well or bad you treat them they give you unconditional love(unless you smash them).Just a little TLC and they will stay your friends for life.Here`s another one for you.Do you ever picture them conversing with each other when no one is around.The ones you had forever telling the newbies they can be replaced.I always pictured my ric and yamaha acoustic telling the newer ones how they seen them come and go over the years.When a new guitar thinks it will nudge out the old timers.The old timers tell them who is going.Wow,I think I hijacked this post.NOTE:NO NEW GUITARS WERE HARMED IN THE WRITING OF THIS POST

I care about my guitars,I guess I will get warm and fuzzy when I get a Martin.

UH, Joey, I don't want to tell you that you're crazy. But you might want to ask a therapist and see what he says. Talking guitars....next thing you know your kids will have fish names. Oh, wait a minute......

"Guitar love, is it wrong" ?

no

badeye   

I second that HannahBeth, for the very same reason we have a hard time parting
with an old friend we've known a long time. We bond and yes there are memories
good and bad.   Right now I am considering parting with one of these friends, my
Aria pro II bass I've had since 86. Having played on other inexpensive models that
weigh much less, sound as good or better and are great to look at I want to sell but
there are a lot of memories and though I play guitar I've been filling in on bass for
groups getting together that are lacking a bass player and so just to fill in occasionally
doesn't warrant saying goodbye to "her". I always can find another friend and keep
the old ones.    mike

Dear Penthouse forums,
I have a relationship with a Strat that goes back to 1986.  She makes me buy her new pickups and pickguards every 10 years or so.  She makes me feel sleezy but she feels so good when I hold her..

Really though, some things in our lives make deep impressions.  Some of these relationships with inanimate objects seem silly to some people,  but those of us that had these types of relationships have, in some small way, learned something from them.  Or its the tequila again..  In any case, its less dangerous than some of things you could get involved with.  Just don't try to marry your guitar.. That's only legal in Oregon and New Hampshire.

Wouldnt a strat drink beer(Corona if it`s a mexican,Bud if it`s an american) and a tele would drink tequila. A martin or a taylor would drink Jack Daniels.Think of it.What would your guitars drink.What kind of music do they play.That will help decide what they drink.Use your imagination.

I don't know, arkady. I have a very old, very beat up Gianini 12er that I absolutely love.
It was given to me for storage, back in 1969, and belonged to an army buddy of mine who accompanied me to Vietnam. He didn't make it back, and that guitar sat in its case in a closet for over ten years, because it reminded me of Myles, who was its previous owner. I couldn't bring myself to play it. When I took it out, the neck had broken away from the body and the saddle had lifted up. It was a mess.
I took it to a luthier, got it repaired and learned to play (I had been a bassist).
The instrument is over 60 years old and it absolutely rings and the sustain is incredible. It has great action and a nice wide fretboard. It never leaves my house, but I carress it daily, and what I feel for it is akin to love.
As to value, it's not a "collector's" item, it's a low end Gianini, probably sold around $100.00 or less when new, but when I play it, I am reminded of my dear friend, a Newfie from Cornerbrook who could make people smile simply by picking it up. It was my campfire guitar as my kids were growing up and served as an accompaniment to my student's singing during my teaching career, and went to a multitude of Scout camps. I've used it on stage numerous times, and now I cherish it like an old lover, which is why it stays indoors now.
Yes, it is possible to feel "love" for a guitar, not because of its value as an object, but as a momento of a lifetime of memories, of glowing campfire embers, of the joy on the children's faces while they sang along with it, a reminder of the fleeting nature of friendships, of the fragility of humanity, as well as the incredible feel and sound of a vintage instrument.
I have other instruments, but none that I "love" like I love this guitar.

attitude I mean ha

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