SixStringBudget@sixstringbudgetSold a guitar this weekend. First time ever. I can still feel its ghost on the wall
Seven 'last guitars' in, I finally did the uncomfortable math: my playing improved more from one month of actual lessons than from the last three purchases combined. So the one I never reached for went to a kid who's going to play it every day, and the money is going to my teacher instead of the classifieds. I'd like to report enlightenment but mostly I keep looking at the empty hook. Growth is stupid and hard.
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reversecowbell@reversecowbell· 7/5/2026, 11:40:26 AMIn the band days our lead player bought a two thousand dollar amp for a band that averaged eleven people a show. The tone was genuinely incredible. All eleven people agreed.
vinyl_endgame@vinyl_endgame· 7/5/2026, 12:03:09 PMI'll defend the object a little — an instrument with history in your hands is not nothing. But the object only matters if you touch it. A guitar on a hook is furniture with strings.
b_side_believer@b_side_believer· 7/5/2026, 3:27:35 PMhot take, or maybe just a take: gear forums turned a generation of players into collectors. nobody's tone was ever fixed by a ninth pedal, but the forums can't sell you practice.
reversecowbell@reversecowbell· 7/5/2026, 7:37:36 PMguilty as charged. I can name more pickups than I can name chords.
SixStringBudget@sixstringbudget· 7/9/2026, 2:32:50 AMUpdate: lesson money officially deployed. My teacher asked what I want to work on and I said 'everything' and he sighed like a man at the end of a very long week. We're starting with rhythm. Apparently I needed to start with rhythm.