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Location: Flahdaw | You DARED to use the words "Squire" and "Martin" in THIS forum!!!??? VA-KAAAAA-TION!!! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There are plenty of players that can make most anything sound good, although I suspect they would prefer a good instrument, and there are some of us that can't make a great instrument sound good. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I'm one.... That is why I love Ovations.
A great sounding instrument can make some simple chords sound awesome.
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| That's why I always loved hearing stories about guys like Jaco... never even had a case for his "Bass of Doom", just carried it around with him slung over his shoulder for years. Didn't change his strings for years from what I'm told. Yet everytime he plugged in it was just magic. But Jaco was a one in a million player, of course. |
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | darkbarguitar - 2012-10-22 11:10 AM
I was once called a "troll" on the AGF for questioning why guys that couldn't play very well were routinely buying $5000 to $10,000 guitars. I really felt it was a legitimate question, and I was looking for explanations as to why they wouldn't wait until they got reasonably good to invest THAT kind of money.
Well Holy Crap...you'd think I had pooped on the Pope. I really started a firestorm. I tried a couple of posts trying to explain my position, but quickly saw it wasn't going to help matters. So I did the reasonable thing.... I BACKED OFF and let things settle down. I didn't post again for a few months and all was fine. Others would have kept pressing their point.
Not to worry Bob. I was just handed a three month ban for calling them fascist censors for editing one sentence about a parlor guitar I am going to sell in a long thread about playing scales. They referenced a previous thread of mine about the luthier I came to know courtesy of dwgpreacher and an OM build of his I sold to an AGF'r after posting about it there. They made an assumption I must be a dealer for this guy and promptly told me to buy a $99.00 a month merchant account. For selling two guitars that weren't mine. The first time it was my fault for not being aware of the rules about owning the git you are selling. I apologized for that and bought a charter membership for good measure. They accused me this time of surreptitiously trying to sell one of his guitars by mentioning it in another thread. I merely meant to communicate I wasn't keeping it, hence the fascist censor comment. The really f'd up part of it is I can't even get into the site to request a prorated refund of my membership! Oh well, WWJD (Jon) |
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