The weird thing that a lot of people do is treat moments like this as the defining ethos of the player when it totally isn't. Mascis, and Tom Verlaine, and whomever else right at the beginning of their careers could only afford this one guitar. Like... nearly all of us were broke clueless teenagers too. They find some level of success and then they buy an assload of cool guitars.superficial wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:27 amFor example, Jay Mascis bought a Jazzmaster because he couldn't afford the Strat he actually wanted. Cobain's Jag was (at the time) a ratty old partscaster (parts-guar?). I'm sure there are other examples.
I know there are plenty of players that have achieved some level of success that only have one or two guitars, but for the most part stories like this are the same for all of us: as you get older, more experienced, and avoid the worst pitfalls of life (death, wars, addiction, disease, nasty divorces, etc.) you tend to accumulate more guitars.
I think it just boils down to personality types and this thought process that we're talking about, along with this ever-present 'thing' that so many (not all) of us have about getting all judgy about who is 'worthy' of gear, how much gear, the cost of their gear, and why. I mean, it's an endless discussion, and my opinion has certainly changed about all of it over time.