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Location: South of most, North of few | How do you know you have GAS?
If you enthusiastically talk to non-playing friends about guitars all the time (regardless of their yawns and eye-rolls) You probably have GAS.
If you get excited when you see a guitar positioned in the corner of a movie scene . You probably have GAS.
If you sit close to the TV when a band is playing trying to work out what make and model they are playing, you probably have GAS.
If you have more guitars than your can physically play......you've got GAS
If you have some guitars that you haven't played in over six months....You've got GAS
IF you don't know the exact number of guitars you have, You've got GAS
If you get excited about when someone else buys a guitar in the forum...you've probably got GAS.
IF you spend more time scouring forums, Ebay, Craig's List, than you do PLAYING your guitars.....You've probably got GAS.
If you are sneaking Guitars into the house so that your wife doesn't see them, .....You've probably got GAS.
If you are thinking like this, " You know, I don't have a guitar with (fill in the blank) (Koa, Walnut, Blackwood)......tonewoods on the back and sides yet.....You've got GAS
If you already have a hand built custom designed guitar by a world reknowned Luthier, AND you are still looking for another custom designed guitar, You've got GAS
If you have some guitars under the bed, in the closet, in the attic AND your music room is full already AND you are still looking for another guitar.....You've got GAS
If you explain away all your guitars by saying."I am holding on to these as investments", You've got GAS
If the spouse is saying, "honey, please come to bed" and you'd rather sit up and pore over eBay lisitngs.....You probably have GAS.
If you find yourself short of breath every time you see a UPS truck.....You probably have GAS.
If you've ever caught yourself thinking, "boy, if I wasn't married..."...You probably have GAS.
If you have more than one guitar shop on speed-dial...
If you're offered an early retirement buyout and don't take it because you haven't got all the guitars you want yet...You probably have GAS.
if you haven't got time to play guitar because you're working a second job to pay for guitars...You probably have GAS.
if you read any of these and thought, "THAT'S just normal"....You probably have GAS.
If you are looking at a wooden table top and you are thinking, "Man, that would make a great back and sides to a guitar"......You probably have GAS.
If you have to build an extra wing on your house to accomodate guitar cases.....you probably have Gas
If you can't have house guests, because your guest room is filled with guitars......most likely you have GAS.
If you have more guitars than you do pairs of bluejeans....you probably have GAS. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Well I can't honestly say they all apply to me, BUT, enough to were I do have GAS!! :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | If you can't one of your guitars after you have searched though all your empty cases and you go on an internet bulletin board asking for help on where it might be, you have GAS and your name is Dave. |
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Location: GA USA | I saw Iron Man last night. There are guitars in Tony Starks house, and you think... awesome! |
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Location: south east Michigan | I noticed that too.
I think it was a Les Paul and maybe an Epiphone semi-hollow body.
Good flick. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | OK, I'm batting .700 (14 for 20). Does that qualify as Major League GAS?  |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Right up there with you Johnny. If it weren't true, It'd be funny. :rolleyes: |
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Location: East Tennessee | You could have titled this thread "The Life Of The Ol' Trader".
Or any number of us,(myself included). |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "Are all those Your Guitars?"
That is not just a line from Pink Floyd's "The Wall", people have actually asked me that.
[And I bite my tongue before I say something rude like, "Who the hell else's would they be?"
or "No, I just supplement my income by storing them."
But TJ, alot of yours are "Just Passing Thru" :cool:
(one of these days I oughta read this book) |
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Location: Jet City | Jim, you already know I'm sick. SICK SICK SICK.
OMA, that book is for SWMBO for sure. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Or, when your 25-year-old son pokes his head into your bedroom, looks around at all the guitar cases and opines, "You're sick, Mom, SICK!", why then, you know you've got GAS. (And all the guitars weren't home at the time, either....) :D
--Karen
My manifestations of the syndrome:
Gertrude (1111-4), Jewel (CE868LX-4), Rosa (Artist), Johanna (Country Artist), Jazzey (Tornado), Ivory (Viper), Jacquita (Guild classical MKI) Gilda (Guild D-50), Sugar (Cheap Steinberger 5-string bass), Plink (the mando), Twang (the banjo) and Shriek (the fiddle of undetermined antecedents) |
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Location: Jet City | You may have GAS if....
You've ever said, "Well really, I'm a drummer, but how much is that Collings again?"
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Location: South of most, North of few | Now that's funny Damon! And OMA, as far as them passing thru,...does that mean I'm passing GAS? :D |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
does that mean I'm passing GAS? ...yeah but very classy GAS!  |
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Location: Jet City | Tradin's been good today.
I posted the Alvarez 12 string last night at 2AM, and when I woke at 8, I had a note in my inbox. SOLD!
I just put that semi-hollow Washburn I bought a couple of weeks ago up on Craigslist.
Takes about 15 minutes for the ad to post...
I had it sold 3 minutes after it posted. If you all have stuff to sell, today's the day!
That was a record for me on CL! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Tradin's good every day. :D |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Just thinking... I have been looking at guitars and amps on eBarf... and researching them on Google!
I have 4 amps that are 15 watts or larger...
Plus a Pignose, Microcube, and some of them 5 & 10 watt amps you get free when you buy a cheap electric...
I have eight Ovations, and one riding to my house in a railroad car,
Plus a Celebrity, a Tak, and others that I refuse to put on my signature...
I am trying to decide which one of these guitars I really ought to part with,
cuz my room is getting smaller and my current job ends this month...
So, WHY am I looking at Guitars and Amps... AND PUTTING THEM ON MY WATCH LIST? :confused: |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
So, WHY am I looking at Guitars and Amps... AND PUTTING THEM ON MY WATCH LIST? :confused: I'm going to go out on a limb here OMA. Do you think it is possible you have a slight case of GAS? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | If you claim that you don't have any of the symtoms listed above, you've got GAS. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | We all got it!
Compliments of the former GAS station owner!!
Thanks Bill!!
AJ |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | At its worst, you stop looking for deals on used stuff and start working with the factories to build you one-off custom models. Then you attend guitar store liquidation auctions and buy more stuff in bulk, like three identical pedals and a dozen high-end A-frame stands because the price was right, picks by the gross, strings by the dozens, cases for guitars you don't even own. And, of course, each model needs its own strap, plus a bunch of matching display junk. I need to be in the terminal ward. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Mate , looking forward to meeting you at the Jam
AJ |
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