Addicted to the sound of an electric guitar?

[DeanS]

No definitely not, no way err, not at all..never, wouldn't happen to me.....

[Philly Q]

I don't know about addicted... but I do love the sound of an electric guitar.  There's not much music I listen to that isn't guitar based, one way or another.  But I also love the sound of a voice, especially in simple arrangements that aren't swamped by elaborate production or studio trickery. 

I guess what I really love is music that sounds like it's made by humans, not machines - the little mistakes, accidental sounds and slight mis-timings.  And the guitar is wonderful for that, there are so many ways to change the tone with just the way you pick, or how hard you squeeze the strings.  It's almost impossible to play anything exactly the same way twice.

I'm not so crazy about the sounds I make myself.  I do pick up a guitar nearly every day, but maybe only for a few minutes at a time - and usually it's unplugged.

 

[JDC]

when your at the download festival and you've got guitar withdrawal symptoms, that's a bad sign!!!

[hamfist]

I love the electric guitar.

I love all sorts of styles of music too (some of them barely involving the guitar).

HOWEVER, I also very much like silence too. If I'm not playing then, most often, I'm enjoying the quiet.

 I actually listen to very little music these days.

Perhaps it's something to do with my house being rather noisy (daughter alert !!), that I appreciate the absence of noise so much !

[Ratrod]

No day passes without me hearing an electric guitar.

[AndyR]

For me it's music in general - and I go through phases of particular types of music. Guitars obviously figure BIG time for me, but also nice "classic sounding" keyboard (mainly piano and organ) sounds. Think bashed up Fender Rhodes or Hammond organ sounds :D (I am not a fan of the "DX7 chorused piano" sound that was so prevalent in the 80s, although, if you play one on its own, it is rather a sweet sound and you can see why every keyboard player used it :lol:)

However, when averaged out over time, I think the human voice actually takes first place over guitars for me.

[MDV]

I can stop any time I want.

[Johnny Mac]

I've blown out girlfriends so i can play my guitars more. They always try and get between me and what i love so they have to be sacked. I am addicted to playing guitars and I'm happy to stay this way. As for girlfriends I think I'll just stick to whores, less hassle and crying.  :D

[Spitfire]

I've blown out girlfriends so i can play my guitars more. They always try and get between me and what i love so they have to be sacked. I am addicted to playing guitars and I'm happy to stay this way. As for girlfriends I think I'll just stick to whores, less hassle and crying.  :D

virgin

[Johnny Mac]

I've blown out girlfriends so i can play my guitars more. They always try and get between me and what i love so they have to be sacked. I am addicted to playing guitars and I'm happy to stay this way. As for girlfriends I think I'll just stick to whores, less hassle and crying.  :D

virgin

Not since I had your Mum's ringpiece!  :P

[Will]

I've blown out girlfriends so i can play my guitars more. They always try and get between me and what i love so they have to be sacked. I am addicted to playing guitars and I'm happy to stay this way. As for girlfriends I think I'll just stick to whores, less hassle and crying.  :D

:lol: nice one!
And to quote Sex Drive "Duuuude, you can't get your right hand pregnant" :roll:

[Perandor]

yeah, I may be addicted to great guitar music, but can't play at all

[_tom_]

I think I'm just addicted to music. Cant go a day without listening to something. I can go days or weeks without playing a guitar though, and when I do play its never for more than an hour at a time. I just get bored of playing the same stuff all the time :\

[Johnny Mac]

I think I'm just addicted to music. Cant go a day without listening to something. I can go days or weeks without playing a guitar though, and when I do play its never for more than an hour at a time. I just get bored of playing the same stuff all the time :\

You have to get out of your comfort zone and into new playing ideas. Its hard though as I'm the same. I may buy some different lick library DVDs to try and do it, i find it easier than books.

[Johnny Mac]

I've blown out girlfriends so i can play my guitars more. They always try and get between me and what i love so they have to be sacked. I am addicted to playing guitars and I'm happy to stay this way. As for girlfriends I think I'll just stick to whores, less hassle and crying.  :D

:lol: nice one!
And to quote Sex Drive "Duuuude, you can't get your right hand pregnant" :roll:

Yes thats true! Still I haven't been able to shag even if I had a bird on the go as my back was too painful. I dumped my bird Julie just after the new year cos I wasn't getting enough time on my Feline Lion. It was doing my nut in. I was at her house miles from me in Kent each weekend and I had a 2.5 grand custom guitar that was getting around 30 minutes of playing time each evening. She used to eat into my practise time with her 2 hour phone calls each night. It had to end. I've only just bonded with my Feline custom in recent weeks and I've had it since October! I love it now. The ex thought it was a phaze that I would grow bored of! Silly bloody cow, they haven't got a clue have they. The alternative was a whole lifetimes worth of baggage, a physco ex husband who stalked us, 3 grown up kids who hate each other, all her mates baggage, jade goody worship, Take that, Luther Vandross, The spice Girls,  endless cr@p tv, soap omnibuses, X $%&#ter, Britains Got (chavvy) Talent and all the rest of the bloody awful shite that passes for entertainment and at the end of the televisual feast a shag, which you can get anywhere and a lot better.
Rant Over.