After spending about four hours of my day off at school practicing my Kryptonite game, Omaha Hi-Low, I took off around 3pm this afternoon. Instead of going straight home, or going down to the Plaza and playing in a sit-n-go tourney, I decided to stop by the Sam Ash music store down on Maryland Pkwy.
I literally have not picked up a guitar in over four years, but I felt like maybe it's time to do something that I used to really enjoy. Back in the day, I had a veritable music studio going--several very nice guitars, a window-shattering amp stack, a rack full of the latest effects and gizmos, pedals, and enough cords and electrical cable to outfit Apollo 11.
Hell, one year, I even got into the Guiness Book of World Records for being part of the World's Largest Rock n Roll band, when me and about 2000 of my closest friends got together in a parking lot in Mesa Arizona and played Louie Louie at the same time.
Admittedly, I was never that good--I used to get a lot of compliments from non-musicians, and a lot of encouragement for fellow musicians. I could play in a band, onstage, and in front of a crowd, but I was never what you'd consider a virtuoso.
Anyhow, when the market crash and recession took me out a few years ago, I had to sell everything to avoid foreclosure on my condo. Tough times. Since then, I never played again, figuring some cosmic force in the universe was telling me that as much as I wanted to, I'd never look good with big hair and spandex pants. But I never lost the dream of having a sailboat, and all that electrical stuff doesn't do well in the marine environment anyways. I've also made the choice that any new 'hobby' purchases have to be something that I can take with me, and I just don't know where I'd put a Marshall stack on a 41-foot Formosa ketch.
However, being a big fan of Jimmy Buffett's music and realizing that all his songs easily lend themselves to the acoustic guitar, I've been thinking that a new acoustic might be the way to go. So I spent about a half hour or so kicking around the vault at Sam Ash, 'test driving' new guitars, and found one that I really like, the Takamini EG 360 in a beautiful wine-red finish. And yeah, it's acoustic/electric, so I could actually have some fun with a small amp. It's not like I can use it to rip into the opening riff of Sweet Child O' Mine like I did on my old Les Paul, but Every Rose Has It's Thorn isn't out of the question.
So it goes on the shopping list, along with the new gun, the Ipod, the new computer, and the new truck.
Mikey
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