So who is willing to admit...

[ChickenScratch]

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Well I'm sorta guilty. Yes I do talk gear but I prefer talking music on here and since I don't have a technical cell in mybody I could never say I do any fixing or building or modding. I pretty much play and if something goes wrong I know a repair guy who's cheap.

[Zero Signal]

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Yeah... me too. I don't know why so many of us get like this?

When I first started visiting this forum back when it was linked to an old Jackson website, I thought having 2 or 3 guitars was a lot; and I also played a lot more. Now I have 15-20 guitars(not even sure), don't think much of it, and play rarely. After a while you have to think of yourself as something of a collector rather than a musician.

They need to put a pop up on this forum, that after you've spent 20 minutes or so surfing a little window comes up and says "Get off the computer and go play your guitar!".

[Snoogans]

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Add me to the list of offenders!

[StukaJU87]

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I will take it a step further. Not only am I a hack at playing, but I have all nice guitars and honestly, my playing doesn't warrant such nice axes. Sometimes I really feel guilty about having them all and playing so badly. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Sad, but true.

[hammer84]

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I will take it a step further. Not only am I a hack at playing, but I have all nice guitars and honestly, my playing doesn't warrant such nice axes. Sometimes I really feel guilty about having them all and playing so badly. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Sad, but true.

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+1 to what Stuka says [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[VulfgangPfuck]

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Totally fuckin' guilty here. I don't even play or work on my guitars as much as I sit here at the J C Fuckin' F talking about them!!
But then again....I'm broke, so I can't buy anything right now anyway.....*sigh*

[illumina]

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really guilty.

i can name specs on almost any guitar, but dont have fretboard memorized! (sue me)

... and this coming from 12 years of classical trumpet.. im ashamed.

[No Use]

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i can definitely admit to this. I spend literally every other second (when the guitar is out of my hands): Thinking aboiut playing, Imagining myself playing, talking about guitars, talking about playing guitars, discussing a new trick i learned somewhere, talking about one of the billions of riffs i forgot that came to my head in pre-calc, writing songs, learning about guitars, thinking about them...

it'll get worse too, because i probably won;t have a guitar around for a very long time (other than church practices).

no wonder i can't get a girlfriend.

[noodlesatf]

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Are you guilty if you spend more time looking at and talking about guitars...if you do it at work where you can't play one anyways? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Tetsuo]

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SO Guilty... In fact I may spend more time shipping gear than playing it

[donf]

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Yea, me too. But.....I work hard at it. Between practicing and playing live with the band, taking lesson for theory and learning songs "I" like to learn, I'm progressing. I got started late though (36 yo). 9 years later and I still can't unlock the fretboard. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[mwm70]

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Are you guilty if you spend more time looking at and talking about guitars...if you do it at work where you can't play one anyways? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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+1 Here.

I try to play every night. But with a pregnant wife and a 4 year old sometimes it is hard. 98% of my lurking is done at work, I guess I am lucky with regards to that.