I love acoustic guitars, but ... naw. I'll play the ones I got.
I know that a fine guitar is a fine guitar. They make music. Well made acoustics
just sound better. Acoustics make music when (not if) the power fails.
That's why there's an acoustic guitar section on this forum.
That said, I'm not willing to pay those kinda prices either. There are a number of fine guitar makers in Canada
and Canada has its own excellent music scene. The Government helps support their songwriters and
performers, which is a good thing because the US music scene is so huge and overbearing. AND closed minded
as well. *laughs.... that's why so much music from USA is so stupid. It's always been true.
Personally I believe that when you get above $2000, there is diminishing returns for each dollar spent.
So I would never even want to buy any guitar that costs more than that. Sure and a $4000 guitar of any
kind will ooze excellence. It had better do so, for that kind of money. I am just not interested.
My attitude is that it's all in the fingers, and in the songs you play, and in the way you present them.
If you ain't got the songs and the chops, then a fancy guitar won't help you much.
If you got the songs and the right way to play 'em, then a less expensive guitar that has some soul
won't hurt you at all.
If you got the songs and the chops AND the money to blow, then more power to ya.
If this, then that eh? That's logic. *grins
So my prejudice against pricey guitars rules out all the "so called best" of many types... Fancy Les Pauls, SG supremes,
"Vintage" guitars of any stripe (which repel me even though I've owned a few) ...I don't look at high grade Martin acoustics,
or high level Paul Reed Smith... what do they say in New Joyzee: "FAWGETABAWDIT".... BADDA BOOM BADDA BING."
Sometimes you pay thousands for the decorations... you pay, but not me... I'll buy the plain one that sounds good and
feels good.
I'm glad somebody makes the fancy ones. There's a place in the world for those... just not in my house. Nor bumping
around in the back of my car on the way to somewhere. The instruments loaded below are all excellent, but not too fancy
to be crammed in like that, and then driven all night to get somewhere else.
A musician is defined as: Someone who loads four thousand dollars worth of equipment into
a one thousand dollar car, and drives 500 miles to play a hundred dollar gig.
I played my whole career on guitars I bought used, for relatively small money. But hey, I never made "the show."
I played my whole career in smaller venues, at smaller festivals, smaller concert series, gazebo concerts, art fairs, house
concerts and schools. Mini van, not tour bus... We quit playing bars in the early 80s. So anyway we always played
for smaller money.
My guitar buying horizon was always smaller too. Before I retired, I only bought guitars that could pay for themselves
in performance or record sales. And mine all did. I'm sure I made
hundreds of dollars playing some of mine from 1974
to 2018.
