Is it weird to miss your guitar (Page 1 of 2)

I take my guitar everywhere i go, I have missed it in the past so I take it everywhere when staying away overnight. Even if I dont play it, I know it is there to be played.

If the guitar is too big to take then the uke is a great replacement to strum out a few songs

get yerself a uke, very easy to play and they can fit into a holdall

Ken

funny you should mention this, i was just thinking the same thing. It's kinda funny how close people can become with inanimate objects.  I don't know about you guys, but my guitar is definately a part of me. In a sense i think we all become what we are passionate about, whether it be other people or objects like a guitar. I miss my guitar when i leave it!

::kori::

Hi
Just been away and the guitar came to.
If I'm able to take I will. My wife supports me in this all the years I've been playing.
I don't think I love the guitar as an object. Just love playing it.
Regards
Arkady

I'll shorlty be going away for 5 days.

Don't know what I'll do! My wife may kill me.

is it weird to daydream about your guitar? sometimes when im at work i zone out and think of my guitar. i dont think its weird to miss your guitar, thats part of being a musician. sometimes i miss my guitar more then my kids(sometimes) if i didnt have my family or guitar id be nothing

About baby guitars: how many are there on the market?

Congratulations on your anniversery!!  I have 21 years under my belt...but that's with two different wives so I don't think that's the same thing....
What's the old joke "I've had problems with both my wives, the first one left me and the second one hasn't."
And your guitar can be your emotional / spiritual voice...it's not just a thing--it say's what you're feeling, so no, I think it's a great thing that you miss your guitar.  I've only been playing for 5 years, and I don't know what I did before--not so much with my time, but I mean as an outlet.

As to that 'don't know what I did before' comment - me neither.  I was a musician as a kid.  But as a kid, it was easy to find other people to play with.  Schedules were pretty free compared to being an adult.  Friend's schedules were also free.  As I grew, space, finances, time all conspired against me and I left music for decades.  I tried here and there, but it didn't work out.  My wife made some teasing comments that she probably thought were just teasing but which hurt enough to interfere with my playing.  (dealt with, any advice on the matter will be promptly ignored) 

So I finally got to playing bass in a worship group a few years ago, but I had to leave that church for reasons I'd rather not discuss (nothing nepharious, it was a painful decision and I don't feel like going into it).  And I was once again adrift musically.  I played bass, and while it's fun to play with CD's it's just not the same as making music.  That's just practice.  In my mind anyway.  So, I took up guitar thinking that maybe it would improve on my theory and bass playing, and I could make music all on my own. 

HOLY MOLEY!!!  This is GREAT!!!  I don't need anyone else to play, but it's real easy to play with someone else too.  I don't know why I let all the baggage get in the way before.  So now, I guess I know exactly what I did before - which is stress and moan and whine - but playing guitar to satisfy that creative urge is just SOOOOOO much better. 

A buddy of mine who's been a jammer/gigger for years and years and years has taken me under his wing and is helping.  We don't get together often, but his encouragement has been immeasurable.  And then some other fellows (two of which are honest-to-goodness Nashville cats) took to encouraging me when they learned I was giving it a go.  So this time, rather than teasing all I've gotten is encouragement and help.  So cool.  Then I get involved here on Chordie, and folks are so supportive.  It's all good.  My bass hasn't been off the wall in months (though I did learn that my guitar playing HAS improved my bass playing). 

- Zurf

What I find myself doing is if I walk in to someone's house and I see a guitar, I just have an (almost) irresistible urge to go over and pick it up and start picking away. Bugger the social niceties, I just want to say "Here, check this out!"
I am new to Chordie, but just love the chat and the real feelin all you people have for the gitaar and sharing your skills, experiences, tips, etc.

Zurf, I read that you were a musician as a kid. One thing I don't get is the fact you wrote that it's more difficult now. But this is my question: what do you mean by difficult. Is it the fact that you "forgot" what you played? Even now, in my situation, I play a few chords, and suddenly THERE IT IS a song.
I have to go to the bathroom (there is also 1 guitar) so better picking up the telephone and 30 minutes blablabla, I want to play that, still subjective, nice song, and I am unable to find it back.
This is a painful thing, or I didn't notice until now, that song wasn't good and I forgot how to play.
About missing your guitar, I have a lot of them, take my stratocaster US made 1964, too expensive and the prices are going up, following the vintage book, with prices, 2005: 10.000$
2006: 15.000$ and 2007: 20.000$. I prefer more to play on my PRS guitars, and if I should sell the Fender, I can buy 2 really, even better guitars using 5000$ for a strat and 5000$ for a tele, and 10.000$ on my bank account, I CAN'T do it, and the prices of vintage guitars are better than buying a share from a big concern, but 20.000$ for a piece of wood with strings I have one strange question: who started things like this? I know that in 1980, a Gibson LP Standard 1959, was not expensive, so who determines the value. I was told that guitar guru's like Gruhn are responsable.

Doc,

What is more difficult as an adult is finding time in a schedule to play with others.  Playing bass along with CDs on my trainer is good practice, but it isn't FUN.  Playing with others is FUN for me.  As an adult, finding some regulars to play with and finding time in a schedule is what is difficult for me.  I have friends who want to get together, but we just can't make our schedules click. 

With the guitar, I feel like I can play by myself and be making music.  When I play my bass by myself, I feel like it is a nice backing track.  It's just not the same. 

- Zurf