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Re: Gear advice for my younger self

24 by penningtron
jason from volo wrote:
penningtron wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:52 am If the guitar neck feels too flat, fat, and wide for you, my god find one that doesn't. That's cheaper than the 5 grand it costs to remove a ganglion cyst.
This made me look up ganglion cyst.

Fuck.

The injuries and medical conditions we suffer through for our passions.
It gets worse..

Back in the olde days the home remedy was to break it up with a heavy object like a Bible, so they earned the name "bible cysts". I tried that a few times with an encyclopedia or whatever, it hurt like hell, but at most would reduce for a week or two then come back. Hence surgery, and I still have the Zoro scar..

Play a guitar that fits, even if that means a 22" scale Strat or whatever. Also get it set up properly with low action, stretch your hands, don't over squeeze, etc..
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Re: Gear advice for my younger self

25 by twelvepoint
Garth wrote: Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:43 pm Don't buy anything. Go in to accounting or lawyering or doctoring or computering or whatever. Live in a shack, put everything into google, apple, microsoft, bitcoin, whatever. Make as fuck of a ton of money as you can, retire early, buy a place on lake superior and get right w/ god or whatever while waiting for the end. You're going to hate yourself either way, so you may as well have access to clean air/water and a pile of loot instead of a pile of gear and trying to console yourself with thoughts like "well at least I sorta half-ass tried to something."
I also find myself wondering if the time I put into doing obscure music, at great personal expense, was really worth it or not. I'm currently thinking, "yes, it was," but I understand the self doubt, and I wonder if this something that deserves its own topic.
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Re: Gear advice for my younger self

26 by BrendanK
You don't need that sparkly new Ludwig kit, focus on making your '70s one sound good. Take better care of it, especially by not throwing it in a van without resonant head / hoop and fucking up the bearing edge.

Don't buy that minidisc 4 track. You don't need to record those songs, and anyway no one's going to hear them, ever.
https://grassjaw.bandcamp.com/
https://eighteenhundredandfrozetodeath.bandcamp.com/
https://www.landspeedrecording.com/
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Re: Gear advice for my younger self

27 by losthighway
jason from volo wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:52 am
As I'm now a middle-aged man and going through my own little crises, I'm now longing for what never happened. I fucking wish I would have done something more than I did back when I was in my 20s.

I know this is headed towards being off-topic of this thread, so I'll stop there.
As much as my long gone visions of grandeur were absurd and added a note of frustration to some otherwise fantastic experiences I've never regretted any of the bands that fizzled, the records that didn't sell great, or the ill fated tours. The creativity, rituals and comradery of the process is never lost on me. I suspect I'll be doing some goofy little band when I'm 60.
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