Robin’s Blog

I think it’s safe to say that everyone has an addiction of some sort. It’s just a matter of how harmful your addcition is..and for every addiction there is a ying and a yang ie: some are addicted to food where as others are addicted to working out (I wish i was the latter)

I am an addict..for guitars. (before you stop reading here thinking that I’m going to talk and talk about how great I am or talk about something only a guitar player would be interested in you’re wrong …read on I do have a point!) My addiction for has different levels to it. Sometimes I can get my fix by just replacing the strings or even a new effects pedal. But from time to time there’s no cure like a new guitar. This was the case this past weekend. My girlfiend decided she wanted a guitar so we went to see the folks at Long and Mcquade. Bad idea. Unfortunatly for me Long and Mcquade generally has a pretty decent array of left handed guitars ( It’s often hard if not downright impossible to find left handers…generally music stores will have one or two in stock) So as she was looking for the “prettiest” guitar I happened to see a Fender Strat (the type Jimi and Clapton play) After what seemed like an hour of drooling over this thing my mind started to wander and justify why I should buy this guitar… “lately I’ve been playing alot of Jimi and Clapton and the guitars I currently own don’t have the sound to do the tunes justice.” Makes sense right? (i know not so much) Luckily for me as I was about to ask to play it she found her “pretty guitar” and was anxious to leave so we did.

Anyone who as any sort of addiction will also tell you that when you’re an addict and you’re in need of a fix that’s all that you can think of. So for the next 5 hours I spent my time on Youtube watching footage of Jimi, Eric and even amateurs who were pretty good all playing Strats. A half hour before the store closed I had decided if I didn’t get this thing my world could come to an end as the guitar gods from above would forever curse me for not doing their music justice for the vast audience that listens to me play (which is a total of 2… Jack and Dazie…my two dogs).

After getting home and plugging in and playing into the wee hours of the morning I came to a realization. If crack addicts can get free pipes why can’t I get a free guitar? If not a free guitar then why not set up a “safe play site” much like a ” safe injection site” have you ever had a neighbor come knocking at 3am when the amps are cranked to 10 and the more you drink the better you think you are? If not let me tell you your life is in danger!.Think of how much nicer the city would be if we stopped giving crack addicts pipes and instead gave musicians guitars or instruments! ……and now i’ve reached the point in the story where I have no idea where i’m going with this….so….uhh…I guess I’m off to feed my addiction!

p.s. I know there will be spelling errors in this one…but it’s the long weekend..I’m too lazy to put it through a spell checker…we all do things half assed on a long weekend right!

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