There's a term I've learned, GAS, on the guitar forums online, which stands for "gear acquisition syndrome". It afflicts all electric guitar players - there are just so many gadgets out there to buy, and each one contributes to a slightly different tone in the end result. And apparently it hits early, because earlier this week I was positively lusting after a particular guitar on Musician's Friend.com. Thing is, it was all but identical to the guitar I have now, from a music point of view. The only difference was one humbucker pickup, where mine has a single coil, but my teacher lambasted this idea saying if you have to have a humbucker it has to be with a hard tail bridge, there's no point even having it with a tremolo because the sound is too thin. Well, I'm sure there are others out there with the opposite point of view (they probably wouldn't make this guitar if there weren't, right?), but that thought held me back from hitting "buy now" the first minute I saw this lovely object.
The most lovely thing about it was the color - "Electron Blue". It's a lovely blue, not light, but knocked back from navy. It's kind of like the blue at the top of the Internet Explorer browser in Windows NT, but of course on a guitar body shinier and rounder. And then I found out that this color is being discontinued, so this guitar will not be available in a few months. Would I forever regret not hitting "Add to cart"? Would I, 10 years from now, be paying tens of thousands of dollars on eBay to recover a model of the one that got away?
And then I was at the Mall the other night, looking at handbags, and found one from Nine West that is exactly, precisely this same Electron Blue color. So I bought it intead, and the GAS went away immediately.
See, boy guitar players don't have this option!
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