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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
I'd keep the strat and save up for the keyboard, but that's just me  How happy are you really going to be downgrading on the guitar, assuming your relatively proficient at it already? |
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Originally Posted by troutman
Girls prefer the guitar player.
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The thing with guitars is that practically every dude on the block can play the guitar. It doesn't really impress a girl in my experience - unless you have a decent voice and sing sappy songs along with it. I don't have that.
A great musician can make a crappy guitar sound amazing. A mediocre musician can try all he wants with an expensive instrument and still sound mediocre. That's me. The EJ Strat is fantastic guitar but it's probably wasted on me in my opinion. I went to the Prince concert tonight and while it wasn't fantastic, I realized I could never be as good as I wanted to be because his playing, funk, rhythm, tone, and phrasing was other-worldly as usual.
Truth be told, I went through the whole "girls prefer the guitar player" in my early 20s banging out metal guitar solos and I've mellowed to the point where I just want to sit back and play some jazzy lounge music and blues on a piano while I sip on a single malt whisky and fall asleep looking at old photographs which may or may not be my own memories... and dream of unicorns.