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In my late 60's my fingers have gone and are too painful for more than a few minutes of playing. Sadly I never got to own the guitars I really wanted - by the time I could afford them children came along so the money went in other directions. All I can say is follow your dreams as long as you can because when the time to own your dreams is gone that's it. I get huge pleasure from seeing the smile on your face Dave when you play something you love. Long may it continue.
I'm a little over a month away from 70. I can relate. It's disappointed knowing I played better years ago solely due to age related stiffer fingers. Les Paul played until 94. I'm certain he could relate, too.
I have advice for helping to restore strength in the hands. Go to a massage therapist and ask for a deep tissue massage on both forearms. It changed my life for the better. Good luck.
Well I suppose the "not getting what you want" made me a guitar polygamist. My first guitar was a beaten up teared down second hand the second was brand new but not the one I wanted (a Strat) no but the guitar was far more expensive so I had to promize to take well care and keep it for life. A beast of burdon, humungus lead heavy and hard to play so it gave me problems with my left hand and the hip. I was told that premium guitars are hard to play! You will grow in to it boy!
Totally with you bro. I came into some money lately and after responsibly paying all debt, bills, rent in advance, I bought a fender amp and three new (cheap/mid priced) guitars. People who don’t play question my little spree but if you play you know it’s basically having a different palette to paint with. They’re a joy to look at, they all sound different and each one can inspire a different mood.
I agree and I’ll pick up on one undervalued point you make - the joy of looking at the guitars. While I own a couple of US Fenders they sit in cases and very rarely seen or played. I have a bunch (well about 14 guitars) displayed throughout the house. All those on display are current model Epiphones, Gretschs and Squiers (and one MX Fender). I only get so much time to play but I enjoy looking at them as I walk down the hall for example. That’s the beauty of having a number of different styles and colours.
Thanks for all the content Dave- I've been going through it recently with some university stuff and life troubles but your content really does provide an escape from the stress of the world for me. It means a lot that you consistently put out this long format quality content on a platform that fights you for doing so- I appreciate it, and I'm sure it's obvious that many others do too. Also, sick intro jam on this one good job!
I'm 60 and I am still playing my ars off and still growing as a player and I will never stop collecting amps and guitars for the love of my art and the music I have them setup for different needs and colors that the painting requires same with amps and pedals love this channel man the best on utube for inspiration and knowledge thanks Dave.
As a man rapidly approaching Thirty guitars in my collection I can totally relate. Every single one of them has a place for me even though I know that not all of them will stay with me for the rest of their lives or mine. I do have one that will be in my coffin
You're going to love this. I had a friend who wasn't into guitar and was giving me a hard time about why I had so many. As we both played golf I asked him why he had so many clubs in his bag. 🤔😁 Point taken. Keep on rocking.👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎵
Dave, honestly the first time i watched one of your gear reviews i was not impressed with your channel...however i re-discovered you again and now have subscribed too. I now look forward to more of your videos, and you are an excellent guitarist !!! BRAVO !!!
I’m so glad you made this video on this topic. I am in process of selling a heap ton of gear and just buying a Boss Katana 100 and the Fender Mustang GTX 100. I’m to the point where convenience in my playing is most important. Having every sound imaginable in one small little amp, without any pedals or any additional wiring, is perfect for my guitar situation right now. Again, thanks for bringing up this topic, Dave.
Thanks so much Dave! If I had to play only one guitar or amp I wouldn't play! Like you I'm inspired by different instruments at different times, I totally agree it would be like a painter " with a white canvas and only black paint." Well said! Great intro jam, I'm partial to the simplicity of T types! Be well, and Rock On
Great video Dave. I’m with you on owning and wanting guitars and amps, and for the same reasons. You inspired me to do my own channel, Pork Pie Pilgrim. Currently I have 17 guitars and 6 amps. Got a Roland Jc22 on order and want a Mel9
Hi Dave👋. Binge watching your content and Queenies too. Fabulous!! Really like the paint 🎨 analogy. Been thinking the same lately. Although I am a Painter……I am also huge guitar 🎸 fan. Best wishes. Hugh. 👍🤝☕️☕️👋
At one point in my tone quest I had eleven electric guitars. Now, after I've found what suits me, I only have six. Two are full size hollowbodies, and the rest are full size semi-hollows. All of them are modded with different types of pickups to give me loads of sonic versatility. P90s, Filter'Trons, Guild 'Lil Buckers, and plain old humbuckers. They're all keepers and the good thing is, with all the pickup variation, I essentially keep the G.A.S. at bay. It wasn't a new guitar I was after, it was a new sound. Modding an existing, and familiar, guitar with a different style of pickup may just be what scratches your itch to acquire a new possession.
Yep, spot on Dave! I have a miriad of "budget" guitars and they all speak to me in a different way! My go to guitar right now is a 40 euro Squier Strat "Special". I have added a decent trem system and a TUSQ nut with a decent set up and it plays so much better than my MIM Fender Strat! My 100 euro Tele has had a full makeover including some custom hand wound pickups. It absolutely rocks! My HB DC Jr FAT is my "punk" guitar but I love playing some jazz on it for laughs. I was worried that you had gone a bit funny - "Do you need that many guitars???" The answer is clearly YES! 🙂
Dave, 100% with you with all this. Listen to what music wants, not to what your ego is thinking it should be, and the angels will sing through their chosen guitar and pedal settings of the day.
Dave, At the end of the day it's your choice, and yours alone. If it makes you happy, and it's not harming anyone, then go for it and enjoy! I have 6 guitars and each one has its individual sound personality. I don't [play them all each day - sometimes I won't play a particular guitar for a few weeks. Then, I'll pick that guitar up and it will say, 'hello old pal, how's it going? We're going to have fun today'....
You're obviously great with whatever guitar you play, but to me you seem to get an extraordinarily compelling sound out of the Tele. Really great and inspiring.
I agree with you 1000% I was very late to the guitar world. I started to play because my son played and I wanted to do something with him. I pulled out a 1982 Hondo Strat that my parents bought me when I was 4 or 5 and had it set up. Well fast forward a few years and I must have bought 50 guitars since. You are totally correct, every one is different. Some connected with me and stayed and some I liked a lot, got bored with them and sold it to someone else to enjoy. Buying, playing and collecting them is a very innocent, fulfilling hobby for me. Love doing it.
Wow! You look great with the new clean shaven face, dude! Don't hide behind the wild-man beard anymore, you look a good decade younger without it. Rock on 🤘
For me, owning more than a couple of guitars is distracting and pointless. I was once somebody who had ten guitars and multiple amps at once but I’m just a hobbyist and play in my room. After being very irresponsible with money, I lost everything to pay off debt. I’m now in a rebuilding process but I’m only going to have two guitars. I wish I had all the time and money I wasted shopping and nodding guitars that could of been put into practicing.
Love you ❤️🙏 Dave........thanx for the video..the world is in fire .so I Wana tell those whos company I enjoy I care before it's too late.. ..........I've gotten toba if enjoyment here.. cheers
We can’t never have enough of different guitars to jam with .. I have several guitars and like you said , it’s what em I in the mood for when my amp is turn to on position and even then I have switch maybe 2-3 times.
totally agree with U Dave, I started playing with a punk/rock band recently, despite having an Epiphone Les Paul 1960 tribute plus with gorgeous Gibson pickups that sounds amazing (pawn shop), also a 1993 telecaster Squier series from FENDER JAPAN (before Squier brand), that I also love the sound of (that one from wallapop), also An Epiphone Sheraton that I truly love (buyed to a friend that took it from Venezuela to Spain) and also a Bullet Stratocaster that I modified with fender pickups and hardware (that one originally traded for a pair of used jordans in wallapop)😝 but that feels amazing too, none of them where feeling right playing with this band tho, I recently quited a seven year job because I was burned out, when I got the money first thing I did was go to the guitar shop and got a new one, tried like 7 or 8 guitars but the one that speaked to me since I saw it was the cheapest, a Gretsch streamliner junior jet P90 on the neck.. dude I'm in love with that guitar now, the only one I'v got new in a store, and probably the cheapest I own except the bullet strat (Before the mods of course)...I'm also a pawn shop lover cos at the end is not about the money, but the feeling. PD, I also recetly traded a pair of AKG mic's for a 50's classic vibe Squier strat that is gorgeous....great deal, and now I love it too!!!😛
Hi Dave =) I completley agree with the how it is the personalties of the guitars, i have 16 guitars and when i think it is enough, i fall in love with a another,..=D Thanks dear Dave for all interesting sessions. Love cheers,....and Dave =D you look great without the beard,...=)
I currently have 13 and they are all different. Also I am a tinker junkie. They are all changed from stock in various ways and 4 of them I built. 2 are Warmoth parts I had custom made "both are strats", and 2 I built from scratch....almost. They are both V style. The bodies I built from local lumber store wood and the necks "I do not have the tools to make a proper neck" are from 1980's Ibanez RG550 guitars. This is a very deep subject for anyone that is a die hard guitar junkie. Lastly...I find this is really important with me. Playing different guitars brings different music out of me. What I create on one guitar I never would have done on a different one. It's like cooking. Each guitar is a unique spice. Great video Dave.
My Ibanez RG is my main live guitar…it has been in D standard for almost whole time I owned it, with a two year period when it was in E and I hated it haha. The guitar just kept saying no! Then the Les Paul I recently acquired wants 11s and E tuning and it wants to play blues, to sing and to be played by fingers! Then I have two backups for both tunings, cheap Tele and Strat, they change tunings as I change my mood haha. Sometimes I just take off relatively fresh strings from one of them because it doesn’t feel right, if that makes any sense :) and I go between amps as well, one is more vintage, other more gainy, depending on my mood that day. It is good to have variety, it brings new ideas!
AMEN brother! You are preaching to the choir! I don't justify any of my guitar buys just buy, play, enjoy then sell🎸to one of my fellow guitar fanatics. If I want red I may sell the blue one😁
I once had 16 guitars when I was gigging and recording different types of music. Now I have the ones I love and recently got it down to 4. I might even sell one more. It is all about playing the ones you have.
i find the search for guitars stopped the moment i got the guitar i was searching for (but i didn tknow this) i loved collecting guitars and had around 25 at my most "collected" i had around 5 i would circle through that i played constantly. then i got a prs s2 studio, perfect fit and there is nothing i cant do with it, i sold off everything except a music man valentine (p90 swapped). im done looking for guitars with these two and im happy as is
So many reasons to play multiple guitars. Neck carve, scale length, pickups, fret size, different bridges for palm muting and different dynamics, etc. playing different guitars or a great vintage guitar will often show you that there are very special or magic guitars. certain guitars cause happy mistakes and can inspire a musical gift.
Have you ever come across a guitar sound and then you couldn't recreate it because you forgot the setup? Happened to me when I was 17 and left my room in the middle of my best session to talk to a girl. Angela Biracco. Came back and my little brother had changed things up to play along with Licensed to Ill (let him use my stuff cause I liked that he was into music). Not even sure which guitar it was, much less how things were dialed in. I've been searching for that sound ever since then and I'm sort of convinced it was just in my head. Yet it's one of my favorite memories.
A good GE 7 EQ pedal can make any guitar pickup sound completely different....it can make a single coil sound like a P90 or a P90 sound like a humbucker..or a humbucker sound like a single coil ...if you want the range of tones...get an EQ pedal.
Hey Dave , we get you , in this world of fakes and 9 day wonders , it's nice to hear you speak with so much honesty , and it came across so well what we the watchers and listeners mean to you , so on behalf of everyone watching and listening, we thank you 😊 oh and as for having too many guitars ? Nah!! I've only got 4 but that's gonna change ( er' indoors was a bit inebriated on Saturday night and she said " You buy what you want to buy " and if that's not an invite I don't know what is !! 😁 keep on doing what you do and you will be on the tube for years to come. Keep safe and keep the faith 🙏 😎✌🎸
DS: Great playing as always. Dude - more band jams please, bro. Consider this a bandstand request. Ha! Cheers from mtw and 99 in L.A. Big fans here. We're craving some more Dave Simpson group over here across the pond. Call together the band! Cheers! ps: turn the bass guitar up a little. Ha Cheers! : )
I have to agree with all the points made here. I used to try to make every guitar I bought to do the same thing my strat does (except for my tele that thing is just like screw you I'm a tele and you'll treat me like one) and that made every guitar second to my strat. But I kinda shifted my view and now they all have something inspiring in them. That said I struggle with Allrounder, or like we say in Germany an "egg laying woolmilkpig" guitars like the jem (or in my case the sterling St Vincent signature) . Since they go in all directions I feel like I'm being dragged into all directions and can't find a voice.
great intro as always master dave. my 10 guitars added up i have about $1100 invested, the used price is about $4k. i dont sweat how many, just if its a value. im a crummy player who cant bring out what any instrument has within it so having different guitars is kinda not really important for me. more just me being a poser.
Oh man, I’d love to see Dave build a guitar with Aliexpress parts… I got myself a guitar body (2 piece alder, sunburst) and a Roasted maple neck with rosewood board that are quite nice for the price… I wonder how much dave could acomplish with a guitar like that… I even saw a store that sells pups that supposedly sound like lindy fralins. There’s also a wenge neck that looks amazing! 👀
Oh I get where you're coming from Dave. Amen to that brother! I can see you, me, Curt Cobain... and maybe Joe Bonamassa, have obviously all fallen out of the same tree 😁 Eloquently put my friend. I've just spent the afternoon A-B ing my new East Coast L1 Gold Top against a few of my other LP types and finally even my missus gets it. Guitars have their own souls, vibes, feels, and personalities. Hallelujah!!!
I'm absolutely obsessed with odball and hidden gem guitars, of which I own probably way to much😁 But to be honest, out of the entire herd only three guitars get played on a regular base. When they no longer interest me I either sell them, or donate them. After playing for many, many years a strato, an Es335, and a tanglewood tw47 give me everything I need or want in a guitar.
Is there really such a thing as too many guitars? I recently had to thin out my herd for money reasons and am now down to four. Its hurt but had to be done. Good vid, Dave!
Hi Dave I’ve just bough my first Gibson les Paul classic it’s a heritage cherry sunburst from Anderson’s Guildford I just love It also have a 1987 Japanese fender strat which is fantastic have you ever tried the Japanese fender mine has and American style serial number
Buying guitars is immediate gratification. Learning to play them to your own idiosyncratic standard is deferred gratification and at great cost it comes also. (Went a bit Yoda there).
I must have about 15 guitars I'm not really sure but I buy old knackered ones and fix them up. Arthritis has come to stay in my wrists and thumbs so the playing is limited. I like the hunt of finding parts and refinishing and daydreaming about who owned them and who made them. I'm stripping the paint brushed black gloss off an El Maya em1000, its all over the plastic covers and body but luckily the neck wasn't painted. Anyhow I love guitars and have owned lots and still looking for the next one.
At the moment I’ve got a headless 6 stringer,a fender type 6stringer kit that I’ve yet to put together,an electro acoustic 6 string Ibanez,two 7 string Ibanez guitars,a subzero 8 stringer and an 8 string mandolin and I don’t think I’ve got enough 😜
I find that owning too many for myself has been a distraction, i own several harley bentons and what i tend to do is pick one up, put it down, pick another one up put that down… etc it has a negative effect on my practice time
I find to much of anything is overwhelming for me. I like a small selection and simple set up , which i found out the expensive way. I have one guitar at the moment, one amp and one cab, i may grab another guitar when i find the money and only because, 2 years down the line i’m still thinking of how good that one played. I really dont know how dave can handle all those guitars and amps in his space, it would drive me nuts. However each to their own and if thats his thing then thats his thing. His explanation on why he has so many makes sense to me.
Same here. I will think of guitars as wimen, A Harem full of wimen, heaven and headake. Some will let you into pleasure whiles the others are fighting against giving a hell.
