Bingo! one in Standard, one half step down, one whole step down, one in drop D, one in drop Db, one in drop C, OPEN E, open A, Baratone in B, Baratone in low A, Bass VI, etc, etc...and NOW i need a backup for each one!...now, dare I start on FX and amps? (Don't forget: certain guitars "sound" different, so...each one in each config...) YIKES! it's Pokemon!
I want to say Sonic Youth did that for the longest time, but part of me is yelling in my good ear that it was Husker Du. If i hadn't spent all my money on dirt pedals maybe I could afford those memory pills made out of Jelly Fish. A creature that doesn't have a brain. Either way it was a pain to tour with all of those guitars and then they got robbed ,,,,, So.
If you want Baxter and Johnny to tell jokes and make light of something... tell them "we need you to put an important message out." Them stand back and watch the magic.
I got one - “This is my vacation guitar”; we changed our vacation plans, ended up saving a lot of money, so I spent that amount on a gold top LP 😝 to enjoy my time off at home
I've thought about it and if I was born left handed I would save just learned playing regular guitars. When you first pick it up it feels like a foreign object anyway so get used to a regular one from the jump and should be good to go.
"Here's a vacuum! " 😂 When I was 5 my 21 year old dad bought my mom a vacuum for Christmas! It was lost on me at the time, but I sure remember the fight..
@@allisonholmesmusic97Heh, one Christmas my siblings and I bought our mom more that $100 worth of dress clothes - she liked 'em a lot; the next day she's mad as hell: TAKE 'EM ALL BACK! I WANT THE MONEY!
Mine works. The Cathoilc seasons have different colors. Vestments etc. Sooo.. Advent is here! I need a purple guitar! And the last week is Pink. Rose works Ordinary time! White and green, yes both Pentecost and good Friday. Red is a must And just in case I play a funeral...black. I'm shopping for a pink one now.
@@roberthastings708 I see you eyeing my pink Telecaster hanging on the wall. Don't even think about it! I'm arm-wrestling Baxter for it. I just have to get him drunk first.
@@roberthastings708 It's all for a laugh. There's no way Baxter's coming off of that guitar, but it is the reason I started watching this channel. And FWIW I quit drinking 29 years ago, I will never get anyone drunk for any reason, no matter how selfish.
My wife and I share our birth year. As a matter of fact, our birthdays are only 11 days apart. So about 15 years ago, I bought a 1961 Telecaster at the Arlington Guitar Show. Took it back to the hotel with me and of course took it apart and found the neck date is 5-61, her birth month and year!!!! She was delighted when I showed it to her!!!! And it was a great investment!!!
I quit drinking three years ago. After I had been sober for six months I bought myself a Strat. I used the excuse “I would have spent more than this on alcohol if I was still drinking”
Good on you, I quit smoking and this is how I got my Fender American Road House Strat. The little book that came with the “quit smoking drug” said among other things that after a year off the sticks reward yourself. A year to the day I took my Strat off the hanger and got it rung up (I was working in a guitar shop at the time). Stopping drinking is a much greater accomplishment, so I think you deserve about another couple of guitars! Keep it up!
@@99springhouse quitting smoking is my next goal. I want a Custom Shop Strat. I have a picture of what I want it to look like and a completed order form taped to the back of it front door so I see it every time I go out for a cigarette
Well, I got the first Telecaster with the intention of keeping it tuned to open G like Keef but it plays so good in standard now I have to get another for the open G thing!
One of my old ones was "All my guitars sound different." They do, but most people listening can't tell one from another and truthfully they all sound fine no matter what style I'm playing
I still NEED a reissue Fender Strat with a Rosewood Fretboard. Not a Tokai, but a Fender! There's nothing at all wrong with my Tokai except the neck contour, I just NEED a Fender Roasted Reissue. Yeah roasted that's the ticket!
Exactly! That’s my #1 rationale i tell my wife, actually. Me: “You see honey, this Les Paul Deluxe has different pickups than my Les Paul Standard so they are tonally very different.” Wife: “they sound the exact same to me. Just like your multiple PRS’s.” Me: “Oh god no, babe. They are all very unique. Trust me on this. You just don’t know what to listen for.”
I told my wife that if I bought that new Tele I’d have more girth and sustain. She was strangely excited about the purchase and even chipped in for half!
Sadly, I have to admit that I have told myself almost every one of those lies at some point. I have several guitars, and if I'm being completely honest, I suck lol. Another one that I have told myself is that the guitar I'm getting ready to buy will make me play more. I will look at it, and just want to play it constantly. Never happens lol, enjoyed the video.
If I lived anywhere near your shop I would be in there every other day bugging the hell out of all of you. Thanks for these videos guys. They're a joy.
I'm a Bass player and I just did this today. I bought a new Fender Precision Pro II Bass with a maple fretboard because I didn't have one with a maple fretboard yet. This is my 5th American made Bass
March 1960 here. I came up with cunning excuses a long time ago. One that always works : “ But you already have one like this.” My response : “Yeah, but not this colour. “ Rock On
Never used any of these. Before my wife departed from fighting leukemia, we talked about guitars and leaving an heirloom that Grandpa played for the children and grandchildren. But buy or order it on my birthday, Christmas, or our anniversary and have it come from her. I've honored her request, and they are all played for others to hear at Church, or my other volunteer sessions (medical facilities like memory care, assisted living, nursing homes and others), some 26 hours a week.
That was really touching, and a very cool idea. Thanks for sharing it, and for sharing your time and positive vibes with others who are in need of all they can get.
I went through a phase where I bought expensive guitars that I could never afford back in my gigging days, er, 1980s. Simply because I could. Now I’m back to buying cheap guitars and modding them myself like I did then. Much more satisfying.
Absolutely Brilliant! Had me in tears. I had a tick to most of those. The only additions I would add is when you have kids you also need two more. One for their birth year and one for their favorite color 🤣
You guys are absolutely brilliant... I have not laugh like this in a while... keep doing this... and keep Rocking... thanks for the great down to earth broadcasts... 🤟🤟😎😎🎸🎸🔊🔊😃😃👍👍
If you are young and/or have 20-50 years to wait the investment excuse is still a possibility. I was in Gruhn Guitars in Nashville a few years back, and a kid came in carrying an old Telecaster like it was a hunk of wood. He said he wanted to buy a case for it for his dad's birthday, and brought it in to make sure it would fit. Mr. Gruhn said he would include an appraisal if he bought a case from him. They went upstairs for several minutes, and the kid came down with a huge smile, and was carrying the Telecaster a lot more carefully. I talked to him after the appraisal, and he had no idea how much it was worth. He said his dad bought it for about $200 back when he was in high school. I think I remember him saying it appraised for over $15K.
This video has some overlap with yesterday's video about guitar nerdom. It takes a guitar nerd like so many of us are to believe that these excuses actually make sense. I'm no different. The only thing stopping me from going completely overboard is my budget. I have no doubt that I would have dozens of guitars if I could afford it.
I actually just moved from Maui to Oahu and can't retrieve my 20' container with 18 guitars (and household goods) for three more days when they will be available and am seriously going to (possibly) buy a guitar to get me through the wait!
So I grew up in the 90’s…youngster here. But, last year blink 182 (my favorite band) came back together in their OG lineup. A year after that a new album dropped, I saw them in person in Long Beach and attended their surprise Denny’s show-it was amazing. Tom DeLonge drops his signature model Starcaster, and my wife knew immediately that I had a built in excuse to get a new guitar-“babe this guitar connects me to my childhood…blink even has a new song called Childhood” Anyway, she didn’t get the point, bought it anyway and she rolled her eyes and said “of course 🙄 “
I only have to justify it to myself and I've used the tone excuse every time! Glad I'm not the only one looking at my next purchase while unboxing the one that just arrived! Here's another one: I practice longer because I want to play them all (I actually find this to be true for me).
I need one for playing slide, one that takes heavy string gages, one with a Floyd for dive bombs, one with locking tuners for tuning stability, one with a vintage trem bar, one with a stop bar tail piece for better palm mutes. A 12 string for 12 string parts. One for Nashville tuning. Something vintage for playing classic gigs. An offset guitar for covering Nirvana...
1. Guitars for "hypothetical" situations like a perfect P bass with flats so you get the audition over another bassist who is otherwise perfect but doesn't have that bass. I'd add that everyone in my area says you need a dreadnought and cite Bluegrass as the reason. There is ZERO Bluegrass for several hours in any given direction. 2. You already have one but ________ brand released a limited (of a thousand) in a limited color with a matching headstock. 3. Something that you'd gig but you can't replace. I once bought a really nice dreadnought by a luthier. The Brazilian rosewood had repaired cracks, so I got an amazing deal. After the luthier passed away, I realized gigging could be a really bad idea in the sense I could never replace it.
Ok, props to the Dripping Spring Family Beer Company shirt! Live right down the road from them. And yeah, I've used several of these excuses lmao. Especially it being an investment.
#3 every time!!! #10 🤔 Or my personal fall back is "Boy if I had that guitar, I would be inspired to learn the impossible guitar part that so & so played on a guitar that looked just like it." I can't tell you how many guitars I've sold myself because of that twisted logic. Glad I never was a fan of The Vinnie Vincent Invasion. I'd be a miserable failure with a butt ugly guitar. I came close with Malmsteen once, the 80's were scary times.
So true. The Cathoilc church has different colors at different times. Here is my pitch: Advent is here! I need a purple guitar. But the 3rd week of Advent is pink(rose) Ordinary time. White and green. Yes both Pentecost and good Friday are red And IF I play a funeral I need black. I'm shopping for a pink guitar now. I hope this helps someone.
In addition to all those: Milestone birthdays deserve milestone guitars. Getting a new guitar will motivate me to play more. Getting an SRV Strat will help me sound like SRV.
Hysterical guys!! Jonathan if you’re looking for a LP got ya covered and it’s a birth year to boot! 81 LP Standard Cherry Sunburst, player grade at Brian Guitars in Ct!! Gig worthy! ✌🏽❤️
I’ve been playing the same 2 guitars for 11 years. Finally bought a tele body to build a parts caster just because I want the twang a Sheraton 2 can’t provide.
I stop the excuses of buying that’s beauty’s. This is my biggest happiness of all … I am working ,saving and buying the things that making me happy . People spending the same amount of money just by vacation , flights , restaurants alcohol and football games tickets … my wife understand that because I made it clear in the first date . She ask me how much is enough? I said when I no longer see the walls in my studio. First rule, buy the things you love from your pocket money and not from your bills money , and make sure to remember her birthday date with a gift that she ask for . HAVE FUN BOYS , we on short trip here 🎉🎉🎉😊
@inboxmeontele_gramcasinoguitar yeyyy i won Murphy lab gibson ? I cannot believe… hackers never sleeping. “Free cheese you can find only in a rat trap “ ..
When I bought my Hwy One Telecaster (I needed it for a band, no seriously) I got home and the first question my wife asked, "What guitar are you getting next?" And yes, I did have my eye on another guitar as I walked out of the store with my new Tele. That was many guitars ago. Also an ex-wife ago. That guitar I was looking at? A Mockingbird. Still don't have one. Yet.
Im a left handed guitarist and my wife had the final straw the other day. She told me that I can only buy guitars if we save. This was after she heard the Godin A6 Ultra. So she listens to videos I show her and she tells me what guitars I should get by the way I talk about them and how they sound. Its been a perfect system.
Ok I think I have used all of these, yet I just got a Martian SC13-E, WITH MY WIFE’S BLESSING! Totally helped that she just retired and I bought her $6,000 worth of sewing machines and quilting equipment. And I said this is my retirement gift that isn’t a tool. (I retired to do my hobby full time - I run a one man handyman service. That all being said I now need a Tele to get that signature Tele tone.
While living in Tokyo for 20 years, I'd tell my Japanese wife I wanted a motorcycle. She said NO! Well then, could I buy a guitar? Sure, she said. I had 47 guitars when it was time to return to Tokyo. Try this with a Corvette or a Harley. Works every time...
"this is the last one" ya right I've been at the register trying to pay for "the last one", but couldn't remember my credit card PIN number because I was looking at another one hanging behind the counter and trying to figure out how I'm going to spin it so I can walk out with both.
I got a once in a lifetime time deal combined with, it’s a one of a kind diamond in the rough bought my last 2. I dod trade 2 others to feel some pain. That’s how I knew I really wanted them. That backfired once years ago where I bought the traded in one before it went on the floor. That’s another topic.
After not having any guitars for 12 years I decided to buy a Les Paul Junior last year. Afterwards I told my girl friend that the bridge was too rough on my picking hand because the saddles were too sharp and weren't rounded enough and it was too heavy. So I bought a Squier 60's Classic Vibe Telecaster Custom. I had it in the closet for a couple of days and a good friend gifted me a 72 Thin Line Telecaster that was in parts. So I had a local guitar tech rebuild it for me. Then I let her know I had the other telecaster a few days before. She flipped out, so I told he I would sell the Les Paul Junior. I later discovered I had a problem playing the Telecasters due to my forearm and upper arm getting cramped from playing them. So I bought an Epiphone ES 339 thinking it would solve the problem and it did. However the problem of weight reemerged. It was over 8 pounds. I did more research and found a Sterling by Music Man Albert Lee HH model. It was light, has body contours on the front and back for comfortable playing, a smaller body but with the same string scale as most Fender models. The good news is I've only sold the Les Paul Junior and Squier 60's Telecaster custom. I've kept the 72 Thin Line Telecaster, Epiphone ES339 and the Albert Lee HH. Out of 5 guitars I've bought in the past 1 1/2 years I've been able to keep 3. I seem to have been able to adapt to them all and use them for different kinds of music and playing styles.
My last guitar was a p90 purchase. The one I have in layaway right now is a p90 for a backup. Paid most of my taxes last year with my guitar purchases. That's two on the list. I could probably check off a few more.
Upon just completing my fifth partscaster (a blinged blue quilted tele with a varitone, named for her cuz "it's the nicest") I told my wife I now have all I could ever want. So next'll be a white franken Billy Bo.
I have 4 guitars, 2 electric, 2 acoustic. One electric is in Standard tuning, one is in Drop D usually. One acoustic is in Standard tuning, the other is in Open D usually, for playing Slide. And yes, one acoustic is my campfire, pack around, throw in the truck guitar that I'm not too worried of losing or damaging.
Yes I've used a few of those but number 8 is still true. I have two beautiful guitars that I don't ever play out. And my birth year is tough. 1955. They ain't cheap.
Hi Baxter and Jonathan I have an SE Tremonti 2022. Can you tell me if Dunlop 62 cleaner and products are safe to use on the new nitro hybrid finish??? I've asked Dunlop via customer service and they aren't sure. What do you guys use on your nitro guitars in the shop to clean and polish?? I play A TON of outdoor shows in Vietnam and cleaning is kind of a must after a gig. Thank you and I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! It helps me big time with being home sick. Robert
