Selling your life

[Robert Randolph]

sooo.. Im selling most all my music crap that's not necassary. If it's not keeping me in business or has very strongly emotional attachment (3-4 things) it's going. It's all so uninspiring.. ive got SO much stuff I dont use, or need just to have it or use it.... it's a status symbol, nothing more really. Somethign to experience just to try it.

So.. keeping the stuff that works really damn well. And everything else that's accumulated is gone. And that's at least 95% of my shit.

For some reason I feel like I had to tell kvr... sad really :-\ This is where I go to be "myself" rather than maintaining some stuck up business image that I do everywhere else in life. Ive done this once already... torched my racks, sold my console and most expensive mics... now goes all the computer crap.. loads of instruments I gathered and useless furniture.

I guess Im just looking for support in a manner... talking to blaster tonight made me realize something quite important that Ive always felt deep inside. If it's not something I can look at and smile and think "yeah, that shit rocks". It's really worthless.

[vurt]

dont be down,at least you have shit to sell

[blaster78]

talking to blaster tonight made me realize something quite important that Ive always felt deep inside. If it's not something I can look at and smile and think "yeah, that shit rocks". It's really worthless.

glad i could be of some use

don't feel down tho rob, sell the stuff you don't want, free up a load of cash, take wendy on a nice holiday, come back inspired

come visit us in manc.... we'll make you smile (although i'm not sure that fits the definition of a nice holiday)

but seriously tho... sell it, move on and as vurt says, at least you've got stuff to sell in the first place

cheers,

steve.

[Ford Prefect]

I guess Im just looking for support in a manner... talking to blaster tonight made me realize something quite important that Ive always felt deep inside. If it's not something I can look at and smile and think "yeah, that shit rocks". It's really worthless.

I see what's getting to ya, but in the same regard, you shouldn't misplace the blame. Getting rid of stuff can do wonders for the psyche, but as you admit, you've done it before. So are you saying that you've self-medicated with the temporary satisfaction of buying this and that and now it's weighing on your heart...or is there some other reason you're feeling this way? There are lots of other things you can do rather than sell all your gear. How did you feel last time you did this and how long did that feeling last? Did you regret it at all? It is fall and as days get shorter and the smell of everything going to sleep and woodsmoke...I'd wait and think through the whole situation before making any rash decisions...Sorry if I'm way off base, but you did ask...

peace,
Ford

[Robert Randolph]

I already talked to blaster (Steve) about it for an hour or two..

But generally I have so much shit that I dont use, I didnt want.. but I just wanted to see what it was like, if maybe I could get into it.

Of course Im keeping the things I use to work, a few decent pre's, converters, monitors, my room and a bare set of software and a new tape machine (:-D).


I still smile everytime I play my epiphone explorer my wife bought me for my birthday a few years ago... or my multivox mx-20 which is really a peice of shit, but it makes me smile...

For me gear is what alchohol is to a lot of you. It gets me away from the world at the end of the day, but in the end it's just a fantasy and a cheap escape. Ive became a huge gear-a-holic... I do it to get buddies.. to get away from the world.. for a quick high. It's all complete crap in the end and all I want is another fix.

I got rid of all the stuff before and it felt so much better... My audio work was streamlined, I got much more done, clients more satisfied. I could actually focus on the music and not which compressor...

Im just a poor victim of the music industries marketing.

[original flipper]

HI

I ended up 'feeling' the same way about my analogue studio some time ago - so I pretty much sold it all, I also go through phases like that in a more general way like I cleared my wardrobe and ended up with 2 large sacks of clothes I have grown (out of!) or just never wear - this clearing out is a natural thing - I think it has a lot to do with maturity and having 'moved on' - its like a catharsis.

On a deeper level we are all highly spiritual/expressive entities that (thank god) will never truely find real comfort in the short term diversions on the material plane, so we battle away seeking some little gratification in whatever, I have always known this; alas I travel a similar road and only 'jump lane' occasionally although I at least know that the lanes of existence are tangable.

For me though I try to learn from it as I don't want to keep repeating the process!

Flipper.

[Robert Randolph]

For me though I try to learn from it as I don't want to keep repeating the process!

yep.

[mauseoleum]

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

I tend to go through a "cleanup and consolidate" cycle every six months or so. Since I like to experiment with new things, I'll get a bunch of stuff and then 6 months later have discovered that it wasn't The Right Thing For Me and out it goes!

This applies to music gear, household stuff, and the like. I don't dump friends every six months (lol). At this point I'm down to "just stuff I use", musicwise. At least so far...

Succumbing to GAS (Gear Acquitision Syndrome) has been a major issue for me the past year, coming here surely doesn't make it easier to resist.

[Sicklecell666]

If you're getting rid of any decent monitors, let me know..