All of my stuff is second hand. I bought my current bass, Musicman Stingray on ebay for £600 around 10 years ago. They start at around £1200 new. Bought my Bike second hand from a bike park rental centre and I've upgraded all of the components from ebay sales. Probably spent around £1500 on it all told, but new all of that would be £3k+ Current Surfboard is a 10'7" old noserider that I picked up from a place called El Segundo in LA at a consignment shop $200 and I even got it shipped back to the UK for free because a mate surfs for a company called Bing and they were shipping his board back, so I put it in the same container.
I'm gonna take up golf again when I'm old and can't surf anymore. Hang on to them for me mate, cheers
With all due respect, you haven't got a clue. Firstly, you have completely misunderstood the point I was making. Secondly, if you genuinely believe that a badly set up guitar is going to enable, let alone encourage, a beginner to play the instrument, then either you have never played guitar, or you have been extremely fortunate with the guitar you bought. Cheap guitars are cheap for a reason - usually a number of them. Poor tuners, unset neck, crappy plastic nut, dodgy lightweight bridges - all of these factors combine to make some instruments unplayable and difficult to make playable without the input of a decent/costly tech, and often replacement parts.
This is an example of a cheap guitar that I bought, on the recommendation of guitarists whose opinions I respect, and even this needed a set up, despite being "set up" by the Thomann workshop.
Yep. I taught myself to read music at a young age. No doubt I would have progressed faster on the instrument had I taken lessons, but I have always been highly motivated to learn as much as possible. I never stop learning. Only today, I devised a scalar exercise to perfect my alternate picking, that has prevented me from playing certain scales over parts of the neck, during live performance. I'm also working on bettering my sweeps.
You're self taught, ie you've never had anyone teach you, and you've obviously not taught anyone either is more or less what you've said. You completely contradicted yourself about learners buying cheap guitars, when in a later comment you admitted to starting on two cheap guitars yourself, even converting a twelve string to a six which I thought was even funnier, after your earlier bolloxs. It's much like when I first walked in the door and you didn't know your California from your Nevada. So now I'm prone to disbelieve much of what you tell me.
That would be ****ing hilarious tbf. Could draft @brb and @Commachio in to do some dad dancing in front of the stage while you and Piskie go head to head in the battle of the bands. Brb, make this happen, please...
Yeah, I just sort of shuffle about on the spot a bit at gigs now. Used to own the dancefloor back in the day though. Half a gram of amphetamine sulphate used to help with that tbf.
Back in 1996 my missus gave me a blow job. It wasn't the best ever, but we were young(er) and it felt great!
