Anyone else getting sick of GAS?

[paisleywookiee]

Yeah, I had taco dip on Christmas Eve, and then brussle sprouts yesterday, as well as cauliflower. Goddamn, I can’t stop letting em fly!

 

[jellodog]

Yeah, I had taco dip on Christmas Eve, and then brussle sprouts yesterday, as well as cauliflower. Goddamn, I can’t stop letting em fly!

No parpsnips?

 

[paisleywookiee]

No parpsnips?

Nah, I stuck to the old reliable flammables.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Nah, I stuck to the old reliable flammables.

Bro do you even rootebega?

 

[paisleywookiee]

Bro do you even rootebega?

Dear lord you don't want me eating anything vaguely related to cabbage.

 

[Richard_G]

I like gear! Did I really need every item I've bought over the years? No. By far! Did some of the acquisitions make me play more guitar than I would otherwise do? Definitely! Am I inspired by the gear I'm currently using? Yes! Do I have many regrets (gear wise)? Not really. I've sold a lot of gear that didn't fit the bill. I've taken my losses, but nothing extreme. I'm more worried about a few pieces of gear I should never have sold. And my collection is modest in comparison to others

I guess I'm fine.

 

[GTR37]

Whenever I just want a quick solution to get a riff down for a demo , I always ask myself what would GASP100 use

 

[la szum]

the relentless advertising is exhausting and kind of numbs the excitement for everything.

Factor in a load of people in youtube getting a load of freebies and pretending to be excited for 5 minutes before moving onto the next thing they don’t actually care about, and it makes me not care in turn.

I don’t think most gear needs to be as important or amazing as companies want us to believe. The best gear I have is largely boring stuff that just does what I want it to reliably and without fuss.

Brilliant, Ed. Brilliant.

I wonder if this is why the younger generations (Gen Z, and Millenials to a lesser degree) are so
deeply disaffected. What is there to be motivated about? There is no mystery anymore. There is
nothing worthy of pursuing. Not even sex for some. It's so eerie to me... and yet maybe there is
an upside in that they are not deluded into thinking there is One Big Thing out there waiting for
them to chase it.

 

[la szum]

If everything was free, we could try everything and have a set of amps/pedals/gear that worked for us and that would be it.

But its not free. The only reason GAS exists is because shit isn't free.

There are boomers who came from the middle class in the 50s and now are wealthy just riding the stock market. And the married couples inherited even more wealth when their parents passed. (And because they had high paying jobs, they are getting large free money social security disbursements even though they don't need it.) And their kids who didn't have to pay for their college and hit the ground running with a 150K salary at age 21.

There is lots of wealth out there. And these people like to stack it up behind them when they make YouTube videos. If we lived in a better world, stacking up gear in the background would be perceived as gauche, rotten, braggy, materialistic behaviour, and these people wouldn't get any views.

The internet has shown us wealth disparity, and it makes people feel worse about themselves. It feeds GAS.

But that doesn't mean we don't love gear.

In some cultures it is an high indicator of douchery. Not in Mad Max Consumer Driven Heaven that is the West, though.

 

[la szum]

No parpsnips?

Parsnips are out. Kohlrabi is in.

 

[Frodebro]

Brilliant, Ed. Brilliant.

I wonder if this is why the younger generations (Gen Z, and Millenials to a lesser degree) are so
deeply disaffected. What is there to be motivated about? There is no mystery anymore. There is
nothing worthy of pursuing. Not even sex for some. It's so eerie to me... and yet maybe there is
an upside in that they are not deluded into thinking there is One Big Thing out there waiting for
them to chase it.

I think living in the age of instant gratification has had a very negative impact on people. I learned to play the guitar by sitting down with a record player, and shortly after that a CD player, and plugging away until I learned the song. And when I did, there was a feeling of accomplishment that excited me about learning the next one. Now, all you have to do is go online and there are hundreds of tutorials out there that show you exactly what to do. While there is still some sense of accomplishment, I honestly believe that the harder something is to achieve, the greater the sense of reward once you finally do achieve it.

 

[la szum]

You mean we have to work it??

It's still not easy for me to play guitar, or sing, or do anything musically related.
It's all a grind. A glorious, never-ending. want to impale yourself, delight that
rewards time on task and effort. Just like Life was meant to be.

 

[Karl Houseknecht]

I’ve come to the conclusion that I have far more gear than I really need and that I can make all of it sound great. I’ve actually sold gear this year instead of buying. Only thing I bought this year is a pedal steel. I’m committed to not buy anything next year. When I start GASing for something it usually just takes a few minutes of playing to make it go away.

 

[ucnick]

Not GAS per se, but I have been having this recurring dream in which I see myself playing a silver guitar, not sure if it was a Tele or not but seem to think it was a bolt-on. Anyways, there was this silver Blacktop Tele that popped up on Reverb and price was good so bought for myself as a Christmas gift, it was a reasonable price. Seems to be a good guitar, I played it some but have caught the flu so don't feel like doing much but it's getting a setup plus locking Hipshot tuners and new strings as soon as I feel better. We'll see if it takes care of the recurring dream...

 

[Frodebro]

You mean we have to work it??

It's still not easy for me to play guitar, or sing, or do anything musically related.
It's all a grind. A glorious, never-ending. want to impale yourself, delight that
rewards time on task and effort. Just like Life was meant to be.

Bingo. The harder the effort, the greater the reward once accomplished, and the greater the boost to our confidence and overall happiness. So now we have people who don't want to work hard at anything, and are denying themselves that mental boost that comes with accomplishing things. No wonder so many people are fucked in the head these days.

 

[Frodebro]

Also, there are alot of guitarists making videos that you can see playing songs, but their technique is quite bad, they lack articulations, vibrato. They are just doing the bare minimum of plucking the notes in time.

There are advantages to taking the long, hard road.

You can see that just walking into any Guitar Center. People are mostly playing the right notes, but their timing and phrasing is all over the place.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Bro do you even rootebega?

You guys are addicted to some jacked up porn. Damn algorithms will suck you into some dark ass places.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

You can see that just walking into any Guitar Center. People are mostly playing the right notes, but their timing and phrasing is all over the place.

As opposed to 30 years ago when they were playing the wrong notes and timing and phrasing were all over the place…

There are no short cuts. Nobody gets good at guitar without sitting down and playing along with the record for hours and hours. Getting to the right notes may come a little faster/easier now, but sounding good still takes time and work and is still rewarding.

There are plenty of people that either won’t be willing to put in the time, don’t hear where they are off and won’t correct it, or whatever - that’s the same as it ever was. Same as it ever was, there are still some that stick with it and play with a voice.

 

[Stone]

No GAS here my current gear does everything I could want or dream of, yes that center is the FM9 and my PowerCabs, they have totally eliminated most of my GAS, mind you ill Get GAS for an axe if its required for what i want to achieve

 

[Orvillain]

I found my Asian queen. Go find yourrrrrssssss.