Have fun — be popular — make money!
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As Sir Paul McCartney related, they did it to "pull in chicks" 
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I love his stories about going to parties as a kid, sitting in the corner w/ a guitar mimicking a French accent. He said, if anything, he was a chick repellant!As Sir Paul McCartney related, they did it to "pull in chicks"
FNG
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Hope no poor schmuck checked banjo!
Charlie Bernstein
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At least I'm having fun!
Charlie Bernstein
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The only part that matters!
FNG
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Should have said buy 10 Gene Autry SJ-200s and then sell them in 2021...with all the money you made you could go to Vegas and have lots of fun and be popular!
Neal
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Yeah, make money...Sure.
Spend $20 in gas to drive your $5,000 worth of gear to do a gig for $200.
Spend $20 in gas to drive your $5,000 worth of gear to do a gig for $200.
You forgot "in your $2,000 car."
Neal
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I was into road cycling for a number of years, and there were lots of times that the car I was driving was worth well less than the bike perched on top of it. Priorities!
I drove a series of crappy cars well into my sixties, long after I could afford something a lot nicer. The last of them was a 2002 Honda Civic with no air conditioning. That was pretty much the last straw for my wife.
But here's the thing. Two years ago I plunked down $25,000 on a used, late model Subaru Outback. Leather seats, premium sound system, sunroof, all tricked out. It has been slowly but surely depreciating every single day since then, and will be worth nothing one day. Meanwhile, my guitars are headed the other direction in value.
I drove a series of crappy cars well into my sixties, long after I could afford something a lot nicer. The last of them was a 2002 Honda Civic with no air conditioning. That was pretty much the last straw for my wife.
But here's the thing. Two years ago I plunked down $25,000 on a used, late model Subaru Outback. Leather seats, premium sound system, sunroof, all tricked out. It has been slowly but surely depreciating every single day since then, and will be worth nothing one day. Meanwhile, my guitars are headed the other direction in value.
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That Outback may very well be worth more now than you paid for it. Used car prices have shot up significantly thanks to all the issues with new car production and availability.
Neal
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You may be right about that in the short term, but it is inevitable that my Subaru will be a worthless piece of junk in 20 years, both because I will run the wheels off of it visiting my grandkid 700 miles north in Boston, and also because the days of internal combustion engines are numbered.
I love my '11 Outback. 115K miles and still running perfectly (knocks on wood).
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Yeah. Last year, my wife finally put her foot down, too. No more beaters. Now we have a late-model Mazda that I'm afraid to drive.
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Neal, here is what I don't understand, how can you live in Charlottesville and not have a Rockbridge guitar?
Oh, I know, that $$$ thing again
Well, you have an H&D...close, but other side of the mountain aren't they?
Oh, I know, that $$$ thing again
Well, you have an H&D...close, but other side of the mountain aren't they?
Guildedagain
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The guitars had bigger moustaches than the players back then.
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Neal
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I have owned two Rockbridge guitars. They were both nice.
One was a slope-shouldered dread that got kicked out by a ‘49 J-50.
The other was a D-18 style square-shouldered dread that got kicked out by the H&D.
It is very Darwinian around my house.
One was a slope-shouldered dread that got kicked out by a ‘49 J-50.
The other was a D-18 style square-shouldered dread that got kicked out by the H&D.
It is very Darwinian around my house.