Why are Guilds so cool?

[Opsimath]

Very good, pleasing, excellent, first-rate. Those are results of a Google search of the word "cool", and all are applicable to our very good, pleasing, excellent, first rate, and therefore "cool", Guild guitars.

 

[bobouz]

Very good, pleasing, excellent, first-rate. Those are results of a Google search of the word "cool", and all are applicable to our very good, pleasing, excellent, first rate, and therefore "cool", Guild guitars.

Add > Satisfying.

 

[fronobulax]

Continuing on my words and definition kick...

When I was in high school I was a reasonably competent tuba player. I was good at it and was getting better. But something was lacking. I decided to learn bass guitar to address that lack. I chose bass because I was lazy and already could read music, especially bass clef, and had an intuitive sense of what a bass part was. When I upgraded from my starter bass, I selected a Guild because the JS II "appealed" to me and the bass was not a Fender bass.

When I tell these stories I tend to say I switched because bass guitar was "cooler" than tuba and I bought Guild because having a less popular brand was "cooler" than playing a Fender like everyone else.

There is almost certainly a generational thing going on but most people seem to understand the stories even if we don't hash out a definition of "cool" or search for what I could use as a synonym. It is certainly less confusing then the slang usage of "bad" to mean "extremely good".

 

[eljayski]

my D-55 has cachet and that's kool to me

 

[Opsimath]

Continuing on my words and definition kick...

When I was in high school I was a reasonably competent tuba player. I was good at it and was getting better. But something was lacking. I decided to learn bass guitar to address that lack. I chose bass because I was lazy and already could read music, especially bass clef, and had an intuitive sense of what a bass part was. When I upgraded from my starter bass, I selected a Guild because the JS II "appealed" to me and the bass was not a Fender bass.

When I tell these stories I tend to say I switched because bass guitar was "cooler" than tuba and I bought Guild because having a less popular brand was "cooler" than playing a Fender like everyone else.

There is almost certainly a generational thing going on but most people seem to understand the stories even if we don't hash out a definition of "cool" or search for what I could use as a synonym. It is certainly less confusing then the slang usage of "bad" to mean "extremely good".

You're not kidding! My son and his friends consistently use words "incorrectly". I explain the meaning of those words to him, which he understands, but then he explains what the words mean the way they use them which I may "understand", but just don't "get".

Oh my, does this mean I'm becoming outdated??!!

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

When I tell these stories I tend to say I switched because bass guitar was "cooler" than tuba and I bought Guild because having a less popular brand was "cooler" than playing a Fender like everyone else.

Would have done a lot better with the chicks with the Fender!


(Not that you didn't to fine with the Guild!)

 

[Nuuska]

Waiting for Mrs Frono to answer Grot

 

[Br1ck]

Be very careful when spreading the word, because mass acceptance destroys cool. Once upon a time, it was cool to own one of the hundred Taylors in existence. I was there.