Biggest issues when playing with other musicians?

I sometimes actually face a weird stigma for showing up with "fancy" equipment... two RCF wedges and an AX8 or Axe-Fx and MFC, etc. Then we inevitably spend half of the time NOT playing music when everyone wants what adds up to a Fractal commercial, or to hear war stories about my work. It kinda makes me long for the days of being the smallest fish and actually impressing with my playing (as if) -- where I'd lug a Music Man combo and three boss pedals through the Lincoln tunnel to play a show at Kenny's or the Bitter End on a Friday summer night. So the challenge is basically... me. Not to mention the crippling self-criticism that comes from hanging out with Dweezil, Vai, Petrucci, Edge... etc...

First-world guitarist problem :)
 
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