pre-distressed guitars hahahahahaha
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:09 pm
I enjoy old, played, scratched guitars etc. for all the reasons above.
My favourite instrument of all the ones I own is my Les Paul Custom, black, early 70s. It doesn't look totally destroyed although it's very obviously been played a lot. I don't know it's full history, but I know (cue hippie bit) that people enjoyed themselves and made music with the thing. Every bit of wear was due to someone enjoying themselves and or entertaining people. Obviously this is cobblers, because it could have been the main guitar in some Nazi skinhead band for all I know. But there was something about it when I first picked it up....man....just something, spiritual.....he he he. (end hippie bit).
Instruments do have certain imprinted psychologies and 'characters' which develop over their life in use. How much is on the astral plane (man) and how much is just perception and psychology I don't know. But it's more fun to wonder (or bullshit other people) about where the cigarette burns came from.
My favourite instrument of all the ones I own is my Les Paul Custom, black, early 70s. It doesn't look totally destroyed although it's very obviously been played a lot. I don't know it's full history, but I know (cue hippie bit) that people enjoyed themselves and made music with the thing. Every bit of wear was due to someone enjoying themselves and or entertaining people. Obviously this is cobblers, because it could have been the main guitar in some Nazi skinhead band for all I know. But there was something about it when I first picked it up....man....just something, spiritual.....he he he. (end hippie bit).
Instruments do have certain imprinted psychologies and 'characters' which develop over their life in use. How much is on the astral plane (man) and how much is just perception and psychology I don't know. But it's more fun to wonder (or bullshit other people) about where the cigarette burns came from.