In my fantasy world....

Come, take my hand, let us journey off to Malikons fantasy world.

In my fantasy world there are no cork sniffers, because cork sniffers aren't allowed to buy guitars. Much like licensing for a car you'd have to display some kind of skill to buy a higher end guitar. Anyone can get a license and buy a car at the dealership, but to buy a RACE CAR you better have proven that you're an experienced racer. Imagine if that applied to guitars as well. You'd no longer have people with $6,000. guitars they can't play looking down their nose at you. No more vaults full of guitars that aren't being played. No more MIC/MIK/MIM/MIA debates. No more internet strangers telling you that your guitars are crap while their expensive guitars are made out of liquid sex and fairy dust. Then when you look at or listen to them play,....it's bad.

Imagine going into a music store and asking to play a $5,000. guitar and they hand you an exam?

Or you sit down to play it but you can't really play so the salesmen pulls it away from you and kindly points at the First Act guitars and kindly advises you to try those instead.

Imagine if you saw someone with a nice guitar you KNEW that they knew how to play it, because otherwise they wouldn't have it.

Imagine a world where only the actual musicians and players who were good at guitar got to own the "nice" guitars, and all the cork sniffers who can't play got stuck with the First Acts until they improved and demonstrated some proficiency, then they're allowed to upgrade to a better guitar.

If you saw a nice guitar in the hands of an older gentlemen it'd be instant respect. You'd know that he earned the guitar and that he could teach you a few things.

*sigh* It'd be a neat fantasy...


*POOF!!!*

But here in the real world...........







(Disclaimer:I'm not pissed at the cork sniffers. However someone made a comment to me recently that really annoyed me because it came from someone that can't play their way out of a wet paper bag, yet had the audacity to mock other peoples equipment.)

You can't buy talent or skills, those take actual work, checkbooks need not apply.