Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:50 am
If I'm not going to be doing a drastic tuning change at a gig (we play in Standard and dropD generally), I just take one guitar because I restring the week of a gig and have never broken a string since I started doing that. Plus I'm quick anyway if it needs to be done. We play a song which is in half a step down and drop D (well C#) these days and I'll bring the Duo-Sonic with 12s for that.dots wrote:with it gone, what's your backup or have you forgone that in favor of lightning fast string changes @ gigs?Mike wrote:I miss some guitars but I don't regret any of them, I only sell stuff for a reason (it ain't getting played) and that reason is generally enough for me to rationalise the sale afterwards.
The Baja is typical of that, is it a great guitar? Yes.
Is it one of the best guitars I have owned? Yes.
Will I miss it when it's gone? Yes
But am I playing it enough now, while I own it? No.
for me, i'm glad i never ditched my avri jag when we got really low on moneys about a year ago. not only is it a very spendy guitar that i'd likely not be able to replace any time soon, but it was the sole survivor of the burglary a few months ago. it's been great using that guitar exclusively again.
the other guitars i ditched the previous year (toronado, mustang, and strat) are missed, but i don't regret the decision. like mike, i wasn't playing them anywhere near enough to justify having them, plus we reeeeeally needed the cash they brought in.
