JokerMachine wrote:
Adveser wrote:
I could have been a great guitarist. But $2000 amps and 3000 dollar guitars have never been anywhere close to reality
What did Eddie Van Halen start off playing?
You seem to be drawing a parallel between being a great producer (having a shit-ton of expensive equipment) and being a great guitarist (having lots of skill and at least a pinch of talent) as being the same thing.
Give me a $4000 guitar and a $10,000 amp and twenty pedalboards full of boutique pedals, racks full of effects units and the best soundman in the business and I still won't be good enough to be even a Z-rated metal guitarist... because I know I'm not good enough. I don't practice near enough. I fail to see what money has to do with anything in regards to being a great guitar player.
Playing in a band is what makes people good. No band is going to let a guy come in with a 15watt solid-state combo amp. You can't even hear that over the drums. Learning how to play through a proper amp is a skill in itself that shouldn't be taken too lightly.
You guys would have to meet me. I'm a thousand times more abrasive in print than I am in real life. I don't run around with some huge ego in real life. This is the internet where things get magnified and exaggerated to ridiculous degrees.
If I were an egotistical ass would I have worked with the same people for so long? The reality is that I am easy to get along with, but like here, I tend to ramble because of the severe ADHD and wind up apologizing for doing it a dozen times when I meet people. Some people downright love my personality for some reason, which I don't understand at all.
If you are not an egomaniac in real life please stop acting like one here. You are pissing a lot of people off.
