KVR Audio

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 10:36 pm

o'malley wrote:
kritikon wrote:Gear lust is good.
Have you ever met or heard of any serious musician who was successful, that didn't buy lots of yummy new toys when the royalty checques came through?
well there is willie nelson. he kept the same old guitar and spent all the money on weed.

look up a few posts

o'malley · Post by **o'malley** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:53 am

haha! missed that.

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:00 am

Gear 'lust'? Hell, I know a bonafide 100% 'Gear Slut'! The guy goes through Ebay daily like Dog: The Bounty Hunter and puts up a most wanted list at the end of the day. And he always 'gets his man'... We're talking Yamaha CS's DX's, EX's, Oberheims, Rhodes, you name it... What's even worse, the guy's buddies with Dave Smith as well - so he's got the Evolvers, Poly Evolvers, SCI stuff... Oh yeah, and the kicker - he won a Yamaha Motif8 synth to boot!

I don't know how a sickness like that starts - and can't imagine the impact should it ever end?

I used to like 'little toys' - Casio's, Bontempi's, Radio Shack... And they add up after awhile. But this big ass stuff on a monthly basis - when all the software is out there... That's nuts!

(Yeah, but I can't help but love the guy still... Just so I can be a benificiary in his will hopefully.

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MarkSA · Post by **MarkSA** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:27 am

I had gear lust at one stage. I even set up a small studio and now I am paying for it literally.

I still got most of my gear, including some early analogues.

Because of the income my list of things that I wish to buy is small.

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:42 am

I could have been sucked into the gear thing, but luckily, the free vst world intervened.

Now I have 1000's of free soft-synths.

Gear lust lite.

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:17 am

ouroboros wrote:I could have been sucked into the gear thing, but luckily, the free vst world intervened.

Now I have 1000's of free soft-synths.

Gear lust lite.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:49 pm

mckenic wrote:

Im with you 100% - Groupies would be

The only groupie most of you will ever see!

Josmoker · Post by **Josmoker** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:30 pm

mckenick wrote:Im with you 100% - Groupies would be Love

oh fcuk groupies

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:03 pm

Is that a pic of your own hand Shane? If so, you have some serious frustration going on. The biceps on the end of that hand must be huge!

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:05 pm

well there is willie nelson. he kept the same old guitar and spent all the money on weed.

Yeah well....he smoked that much weed, he probably couldn't hear that his crappy old guitar had rust all over its strings.
Wouldn't you rather be stoned and play around on shiney new toys?

Colonel Flashback · Post by **Colonel Flashback** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:09 pm

i don't care...

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:34 pm

kritikon wrote:...Have you ever met or heard of any serious musician who was successful, that didn't buy lots of yummy new toys when the royalty checques came through?...

Brian Eno. He's got yummy toys, but he's very sparse and selective about it. I think his philosophy on gear is pretty pragmatic: Know the gear you have very deeply before you buy new stuff.

But, of course, that doesn't stop me from suffering from incredible gear lust.

soulata · Post by **soulata** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:41 pm

thanks for the input:

I'm trying to force myself to really think about it. here's the result (1 - most important...):

1) the musician

buying more gear makes me forget about making myself a better musician

2) the instrument

got that covered but always want more

3) room and mic

4) preamp

5) audio card

6) recording sw and what you do with it

...

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:23 am

Then there's that saying....

"It's a poor musician who blames their instrument"

Stupid Bontempi organ! Why couldn't you be a Hammond? I could be just like Keith Emerson then! Amputee or not, I could've been a somebody!

But then I think it's also the design, technology, and just craftsman ship that draws us Tim Allen like 'Hardware Men' to this stuff... "Stainless Steel Look!... Uuuuuugh? "7 LCD Color Screen!.... Arr-arr-arr-arr! Veneered wood grain sides! Owf-Owf-Owf!... 40GB Pre-installed Hard Drive! AAAAAAAAAOOOOOOWWWGAAA!"

A real MANLY synth there boys! Can't wait to look at the new Kurzwe... Well would you look at that, my ties caught in the Pitch Bend wheel!....We'll be right back.

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:44 am

if any of us were real composers, we'd write music with nothing but a peice of paper and a pen. how many of those guys can you think of? old upright pianos dont count as gear, btw ^_^

Gear lust and why not