Phostenix
Power User
In the interests of simplifying my life, I've been on a quest for the last few years to have just 1 or 2 guitars.
I was watching a YouTube video the other day where John Mayer tells the story of his black Strat & at one point he talks about how this guitar is so connected with him now because it has been his main guitar since 2004 (IIRC). It's the idea that people know that this is the guitar they hear on the recordings or have seen him play for years on stage & that the guitar itself has as much history as he does. This guitar has been there through everything with him.
I don't name guitars or feel that I'm in some sort of relationship with them, but I did find this aspect of the one guitar idea appealing in a way I hadn't thought of before. The idea that you have a shared history with the instrument in a way that you don't when you have a stable of gtuitars that are constantly being rotated.
I thought it was refreshing in a world where a lot of artist interviews are filled with going through "the collection" & a lot of players can't even remember which guitar got used on which track or where certain guitars ended up because there are so many of them.
Here's the video:
I was watching a YouTube video the other day where John Mayer tells the story of his black Strat & at one point he talks about how this guitar is so connected with him now because it has been his main guitar since 2004 (IIRC). It's the idea that people know that this is the guitar they hear on the recordings or have seen him play for years on stage & that the guitar itself has as much history as he does. This guitar has been there through everything with him.
I don't name guitars or feel that I'm in some sort of relationship with them, but I did find this aspect of the one guitar idea appealing in a way I hadn't thought of before. The idea that you have a shared history with the instrument in a way that you don't when you have a stable of gtuitars that are constantly being rotated.
I thought it was refreshing in a world where a lot of artist interviews are filled with going through "the collection" & a lot of players can't even remember which guitar got used on which track or where certain guitars ended up because there are so many of them.
Here's the video: