patient conversation
"so how do you like your takamine?" i asked, starved for a good musical conversation, hoping to talk about the martin, my martin, whose sound enthralls me.
"um, it's good. when i went to the store, i had $200, and i didn't want a tan guitar. so i bought the only black one, and that's it over there."
"oh. so you picked your guitar by its color then," i said, smiling politely.
"yeah."
yeah. okay.
nevermind, i guess.
addendum: suddenly i remember that i too wanted a black guitar at first. i remember thinking it would be much better to have a black one. but that was short-lived, and i love my tan martin. more on that later.
"um, it's good. when i went to the store, i had $200, and i didn't want a tan guitar. so i bought the only black one, and that's it over there."
"oh. so you picked your guitar by its color then," i said, smiling politely.
"yeah."
yeah. okay.
nevermind, i guess.
addendum: suddenly i remember that i too wanted a black guitar at first. i remember thinking it would be much better to have a black one. but that was short-lived, and i love my tan martin. more on that later.
posted by CamoBunny at 00:45
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colour seems like a logical way to choose a guitar to me... of course, i can't play a guitar so if i were to buy one, it would be more for decoration. but then it would also prompt questions from all of my guest such as "oh, do you play?" and i'd have to say "why are you always so nosey? geez... i bought it because i liked the colour. no i don't play." and then they would be disappointed with me... yet again... and probably say that i have an attitude problem. so then i'd say "get out of my house, but leave the cookies," only to realize that they never brought cookies in the first place. turns out they were lousy guests all along, so i should never have expected them to simply enjoy the presence of the guitar without asking me all of these personal questions.
i'm really tired.
8/20/2006 04:56:00 AM
i have a black takamine. i thought it was the coolest thing when i received it as my birthday present when i turned 9, barely able to grip the thing. i thought it must be badass because it was acoustic and electric and had a cutaway. i would only discover, years later, how terribly cliche and cheesy black cutaway acoustic guitars are.
ray = jealous of your martin
but i love my takamine. my second guitar that i bought for $50 from a neighbor was a black squier strat, with a black pickguard which i always liked. the neck was maple though, and i remember the obsessive compulsive side of me always hated how that looked, how it clashed with the dark body, and later, how it felt when you played it. i always wished it was rosewood so it'd be more like the fingerboard of a violin and dark all up and down the instrument. i'd end up smashing that guitar after an argument with my mom and keeping the neck as a reminder. i remember when i was 15 and i bought my first electric guitar(s) i wanted two black ones to match my black takamine. however, i ended up with a jackson dkmg (i was a real metalhead in those days) that i got so excited seeing just sitting out on the floor, i didn't realize til i got home that it was in fact a dark forest green, the dkmg's signature color. i also fell in love with a les paul with a iced tea, flame maple finish. it wasn't until last year, after i'd sold those two guitars away, that i was able to get my black stratocaster and my black dot and finish what i had originally set out to do.
i'm not quite sure what that says about me, wanting these instruments to all be black. it could be my lingering juvenile fascination with darkness or a subconscious obsession with maintaining a workman-like attitude of substance over style. could be that i just lack any real imagination.
sorry about the rant camobunny and co., my blog just died and i haven't written anything in a while.
8/22/2006 02:16:00 AM
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