echale3
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The other day I got the chance to go to the GC an hour north of here, and mess around while it was still quiet (no Zakk Wylde wannabees puching the master volume to at 11 and doing pinch harmonics over and over and over and over)...
I'm looking over a '72 Tele Custom RI (which I really liked) and a teenager boy and his dad come in. The boy has this sort of goth/emo look to him, and looks kind of bewildered/intimidated... The dad gets one of the "Dood, UR like, gonna LUV this GTR, its soooooo KEWL" sales associates over, and starts pointing to a guitar up on top of the wall. The "salesdood" drags the ladder over, and the dad keeps going "not that one, THAT one...." and pointing. "Salesdood" finally sets his hand on a $3400 gorgeous black LP Custom, and the dad says "Thats the one.." "Salesdood" takes it down and hands it to the kid... He puts it across his knee, and it's "plink, twang, dink clank"--the kid is a total newbee who hasn't learned to play a simple two-finger chord yet... We all gotta start at the bottom, I know, but "It's his first guitar, he's wanting to take lessons" the dad announces to "Salesdood" and everybody within earshot.
As I'm leaving, the kid is plugged into a Marshall combo (didn't see which one), and is going "plink, plank, twang, plung, tink" on a $3400 "first" guitar, and Dad is whipping out the plastic. At least the kid was smiling real big instead of looking like he swallowed a frog like he did when he came in...
I'm feeling a little jealous--it must be nice to be able to afford to drop that much coin on a "first" guitar.... As I was leaving the GC, I was thinking that having good gear to start with makes the process a lot smoother because you aren't getting discouraged by fighting crappy gear at the same time you are trying to learn, but that was bordering on ridiculous.....
I'm looking over a '72 Tele Custom RI (which I really liked) and a teenager boy and his dad come in. The boy has this sort of goth/emo look to him, and looks kind of bewildered/intimidated... The dad gets one of the "Dood, UR like, gonna LUV this GTR, its soooooo KEWL" sales associates over, and starts pointing to a guitar up on top of the wall. The "salesdood" drags the ladder over, and the dad keeps going "not that one, THAT one...." and pointing. "Salesdood" finally sets his hand on a $3400 gorgeous black LP Custom, and the dad says "Thats the one.." "Salesdood" takes it down and hands it to the kid... He puts it across his knee, and it's "plink, twang, dink clank"--the kid is a total newbee who hasn't learned to play a simple two-finger chord yet... We all gotta start at the bottom, I know, but "It's his first guitar, he's wanting to take lessons" the dad announces to "Salesdood" and everybody within earshot.
As I'm leaving, the kid is plugged into a Marshall combo (didn't see which one), and is going "plink, plank, twang, plung, tink" on a $3400 "first" guitar, and Dad is whipping out the plastic. At least the kid was smiling real big instead of looking like he swallowed a frog like he did when he came in...
I'm feeling a little jealous--it must be nice to be able to afford to drop that much coin on a "first" guitar.... As I was leaving the GC, I was thinking that having good gear to start with makes the process a lot smoother because you aren't getting discouraged by fighting crappy gear at the same time you are trying to learn, but that was bordering on ridiculous.....