What would you do with a trillion dollars?

[Kirk Hammett worshiper]

Well, I think the subject of this thread is pretty self-explanatory. What would you do with a trillion dollars? I myself would of course, buy every guitar known to man, buy the McDonald's food chain, and then run through Oakland, CA with hundred dollar bills glued to my naked body.


Now it's your turn.

[lalimacefolle]

I'd pay some guy to kill kirk Hammett. Then I'd buy a new pair of shoes. Running shoes... Moma always said you know an awful lot by a person's shoes...

[u10ajf]

I'd pay someone to protect kirk hammett from murderous people. I know you say the guy's over-rated and I know there are more technical and original players out there but I think some of his solos are seriously cool, Satch rated him as a good student.
As for shoes, don't ever judge a guy by his Buck (skin) cover!
I wear terrible shoes.

Seriously though.. a trillion's a lot of money. I'd buy myself a double neck (bass and guitar - Michealangelo style with necks at 120 degrees), through neck with synthesiser potential double floydd roses with a built in harp for cool drone notes.
Then I'd pay off my sisters debts, provide mother for a comfortable retirement buy a couple of houses, a motor caravan, driving lessons, diving instructions, more education (learn some scarier maths and physics perhaps) and then give the rest to OXFAM bar some put in the bank to acrue intrest.

[lalimacefolle]

I wasn't serious you know? :D

Seriously, I'd build some kind of place where aspiring guitarists could come and learn music. Much like a college or something like GIT. Except it would be based on motivation, not money.
Then I'd open some kind of Bar (a blues one) and bring all them players to gig there. (BB, Buddy etc...), then, I'd buy myself some kind of cool guitar, not a fancy one, maybe a 1952 reissue telecaster.
Oh yeah, and I'd give away all those guitars... I'd buy some cool ones, then give them to the best students, and to my friends. I know a lot of players out there can't afford a guitar with a decent playability...

Then I'd pay Kirk Hammett's protector to kill him themselves... Or maybe I'd pay Lars or James to kick his butt in a live show, during one of his solos... Big boot in the ass... Or maybe I'd pay Joe Satriani to kill him during a G3 tour... :D

[u10ajf]

Maybe you won't have to, perhaps petrrucci will anyway!

Having said this overall satch is my favourite writer of guitar music and possibly a deity but I'm more scared of Pettrucci who might be the devil.

Like the idea of a guitar college..

I've thought some more. I would set up a commune based on sustainable energy sources, organic farming, recycling, learning and trying to convert the dissinterested, materialistic and corrupt western world with common sense secular (hence actually shared by the majority of religions) values.

Then I'd pay for President Bushes assasination. Following this I'd sit in a bar all day drinking absinthe, smoking toad and getting sexual favours from nubile young women.

[u10ajf]

Oh my God! I've just realised I'm a senior member, how did that happen? Fame at last.. ahhh..

[jesse sutton]

the first thing i would do is got to McDonalds and buy two hamburgers with only mustard and ketchup and a large fry, with a small coke (because of free refills.) Then i would move to banff alberta (canada, for those who dont know) and open a little bar/pub that plays little musicians that pass through or whatever. then i propose to the love of my life, and move to a tropical island in the south pacific like pago pago, or bora-bora. Then i would buy a smaller island, and open a little resort, but it would so small and it wouldnt be a big hassle. the rooms would be little cottages on the beach, and every night we would have little beach parties with the tourists. but the place would be extremely cheap so that even the poorest of travellers could stay there. Every day, i would take the people out on my home-made boat and we would scuba-dive and swim through the reefs. Then i would take them on tour through the island, which is small enough to walk around within a day.
oh and i would play guitar and write songs to my wife, and write wonderful guitar songs meant to be played with an orchestra, that most likely wouldnt ever be played anywhere but in my head, and i would play little shows in the dining area of the main cottage. Then i would give most of the money away to charities and stuff, because it wouldnt be too expensive to maintain a little island resort, (no more then fifty million, i assume.)

this is what i would do with a trillion dollars.

jesse sutton (canada kicks ass)

[Kirk Hammett worshiper]

After I did all the stuff I mention at the very beginning, I think I would buy Canada, too. I'm sure that would only be a couple hundred billion. And then I'd buy a huge house boat and live off the coast of Nova Scotia.

[Zeppelin]

hmmm where should i start?!
get myself a huuuuuge house like all the rappers from mtv's cribs
then have a golden toilet
then ill build a studio in the basement
and opening a nice blues pub is a great idea

oh yeah and ill get my own "celebrities only nudy bar"
with britney spears and such and such

[educatedfilm]

first thing first... a child hood ambition i need to forfill....
I'd get on the underground/ the subway, and pull the emergency brakes, and pay the on the spot fine off £200... i would keep repeating this untill i would get bored...
So a few months later, I would begin to use my finances to de-stabalize the markets (and teach the capatalist pig dogs a lesson :D)... in a matter of time, the markets would crumble, and i wouuld be the main holder of world wealth (by this point i would have aquired gold in place of dollars, so should the dollar crash, I'll still be rich)... there would be anarchy, the world armies would be in dissaray, after several months of never once being payed. That would be the chance i'd be waiting for, I'sd seize the world arsenal of nuclear/ boilogical weapons, fire them off into space (or have them destroyed by other means). I would buy the pentagon and other big millarty establishments around the world, and transform it into a botanical gardens, I would share the wealth, fight to solve the clean drinking water problem, yada yada yada, and we'd all live in peace, because i will start schools (cos the old ones will have collapsed), and peace will be taught as a part of the cirriculum, and i'll get them to run lots of tapes of the horrors of war instead of getting them to watch frigging pokemon...

My "houses": would have everything including lots and lots land on witch i'd have my own aircraft hanger (for those genuine echo sounds when your rehersing), man-made lake, danish pastery bakeries, like 10 chefs on call at anyone time (so i can have what ever i want when i want it), guitar facotries, the biggest aquarium you'll ever see, a painting island (where i could go to paint and relax in the tropics), and guitar island (same as painting, but differnt island), pay bill gates to be my court jester, private army for tracking down those who have wronged me... ooops, did i type that last one?, scratch taht *for now*

[Josh Redstone]

I would buy a huge house, half of it would be a music room, on a lakefront. I'd have an airplane and a big electric death ray to scare off salesmen.
Then I'd buy all the guitars I've ever wanted, and maybe a music store to run, just for the experience, and put the rest of the money in the bank and live off the interest.
I would also eliminate all the money problems of everyone I know that have money problems.

[PonyOne]

That's a tough one... probably sleep a really long time, buy some stuff, see if I could pull strings to get my record deal thing working...

[nechako]

I would buy my home town, everything, pay every loser to go somewhere else, then bulldoze it and build a nice town. Next I would buy the media out so that I could get my music out. Then, then, the, women, travel, spacetravell, I would build myself into a cyborg and live forever in the future like eddy from iron maiden, basically start by paying my bills and buying my freedom.

[PonyOne]

wouldn't it be gratifying to just buy out the corps that you owe money to?

"Hi, this is Tammy, from AT&T. I'm calling about this $35 phone bill that has gone unpaid for three months."

"Thirty Five Dollars, huh? Hmm. How much is your company's net worth?"

"Three hundred seventy five billion, sir. Now, we do accept Visa, Mastercard or check..."

"Hmm... you think they'd give it to me for three hundred seventy four?"

[Bardsley]

Pony, that's the best yet (though I love the painting Island ed). He he, don't get mad, buy out the company. :D

[Josh Redstone]

Come to think of it, I'd buy microsoft off of Bill Gates, then buy him some cool glasses.

[PonyOne]

I'd send him some Fubu pants & shirt, an Avirex jacket & some Timberlands, get him an Eminem cut, hook him up with some Oakley's and a wave cap and give him a pimped out Excalade. That'd be a kick. And hell, with all the billions he's making, he should SHOW he's got high class.

That's why he'd have a big platinum & diamond chain that said "BILL G'$$$$" as well. Maybe get Michael Jackson to rewrite Billy Jean...

Billy G is not no corper
he's just some guy who
helped write DOS with someone
but Steve Jobs is not no one...

[Ginner]

Originally posted by jesse sutton
the first thing i would do is got to McDonalds and buy two hamburgers with only mustard and ketchup and a large fry, with a small coke (because of free refills.) Then i would move to banff alberta (canada, for those who dont know) and open a little bar/pub that plays little musicians that pass through or whatever. then i propose to the love of my life, and move to a tropical island in the south pacific like pago pago, or bora-bora. Then i would buy a smaller island, and open a little resort, but it would so small and it wouldnt be a big hassle. the rooms would be little cottages on the beach, and every night we would have little beach parties with the tourists. but the place would be extremely cheap so that even the poorest of travellers could stay there. Every day, i would take the people out on my home-made boat and we would scuba-dive and swim through the reefs. Then i would take them on tour through the island, which is small enough to walk around within a day.
oh and i would play guitar and write songs to my wife, and write wonderful guitar songs meant to be played with an orchestra, that most likely wouldnt ever be played anywhere but in my head, and i would play little shows in the dining area of the main cottage. Then i would give most of the money away to charities and stuff, because it wouldnt be too expensive to maintain a little island resort, (no more then fifty million, i assume.)

this is what i would do with a trillion dollars.

jesse sutton (canada kicks ass)




couldnt have said it better.


but......i would also buy the guitar company GODIN

[aiwass]

I would buy myself some real expensive guitars. Some Parkers, some LSR's, Vigier's, and have some custom ones made. Then I would buy a VHT Pittbull, a recording studio and an education at Berklee. Then I would enroll the world's leading guitar heroes as slaves at my mansion, working 24/7 as my personal guitar teachers.

And then I would buy Shakira. Grr....

[PonyOne]

I used to live up the street from Berklee, and knew a whole ton of Berklee students, present and former, and i as well as most of them would tell you it's not worth it.

[aiwass]

Erm.... Yeah right. I don't give a sh*t about the education (cuz you don't need that to get good), but just hanging out with so many great musicians every day must really be a great experience. Master classes with Steve Vai and John Petrucci not worth it?!

[PonyOne]

I don't know... did vai, petrucci, bb king, etc etc hang out with master artist while they were learning....?

[Josh Redstone]

Probably not. And they certainly wouldn't have enslaved them.

[Zeppelin]

Originally posted by PonyOne
I don't know... did vai, petrucci, bb king, etc etc hang out with master artist while they were learning....?

actualy... vai hanged around with Satriani, or at least was his student
and b,b king.. well when b.b was young all the blues players hanged around witch each other, so he probably knew all the blues guys
but im just being a smart ass now :)

[aiwass]

But Vai, Petrucci and B.B. didn't have a trillion bucks...

;)

[malweth]

Well... after my first private concert with Billy Joel (just family & friends :)) And my $6,999,000 house in Narragansett, http://www.riliving.com/PropSearch/sfformdetails.asp?MLSid=115499, I'd probably think about some nice guitar (and other music) companies I'd buy. Maybe I'd get Fender and move the squier line out of Mexico...

And, of course, I'd also get my nice big vacation house in Bermuda (purchased from Alan Greenspan). I saw Greenspan's house down there... it's not huge, but it's a really nice mansion!

After all that... who knows! Settle down with my hobbies and businesses, I guess... :)

[Raskolnikov]

If I had a trillion dollars, I'd squander it.

[aiwass]

Hear, hear!

[Slow Diver]

I would buy pay the Backstreet Boys let their hairs grow a little bit and play some grindcore-death metal thing. I will make them sign a contract for 10000 albums with grindcore death metal.
I will do the same with all the pop stars. They wont refuse -- after all they are all doing it for the Benjamines.

[aiwass]

And make the grindcore death metal bands play pop...

[Slow Diver]

or latino
Imagine Napalm Death playing latino
that would be fun
:D

[Azrael]

i would buy the whole music industry so that they have to do what i say! *MUAHHAHAHAAAA*

or i would go to a casino and put it all on one number on the roulette table *LOL*

[malweth]

I would buy the whole music industry and... well... disband it ;)

I'd still collect the music, but I'd have the industry work FOR the musician, not against them! (And MP3s? Purchasable and tradeable, of course)!

[Mud]

heh OD

[Josh Redstone]

Originally posted by aiwass
And make the grindcore death metal bands play pop...

I'd get a kick out of Slipknot jamming to some Elton John. I would pay money for that.

[PonyOne]

On the topic of the recording industry mutiny... good article

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-15-artists-rights_x.htm

[iiholly]

I would buy... salt and vinegar potatoe chips and a guitar pick cause I've seem to have misplaced all of mine.

[aiwass]

I would buy a very nice guitar and a very nice amp, and then I would retreat to my mansion in the countryside to play the guitar for the rest of my life.

[howie50]

I'd offer Saddam Hussein to get the hell out of Iraq to prevent the outbreak of a general war in the middle east. If that failed I'd offer George Bush a couple of billion to step down to prevent the same then arm Saddam's opponents and let them sort him out. Then I'd treat myself to a 59 Les Paul, a Marshall stack, a sackful of effects boxes and every CD I ever wanted, oh and a good guitar tutor so I could improve my technique. Then every Friday night pay the world's top bands to play just for me and my friends although I woud'nt give in to their ridiculous demands (you like removing all the brown M&M's from the bowl, I'd start with The Who, then Led Zeppelin. (who would you choose). I'd open a recording/rehearsal studio where young bands could practice and make demo's at very cheap rates and let them develop at their own pace, if they were any good I'd have them managed in a decent and honest way.

[SLY]

Well, Well... let me see... First of all, I'd buy Gibson,Jackson & fender companies, to make me custom 1 of a kind guitars...

Also I'd buy Marshall to supply me with cool stacks...and PlayBoy to supply me with good looking females...

Then I'll buy MTV , and every other music TV & Radio channel, and BAN all the POP Sh*t from the whole world, and play some real music instead .

[Incidents Happen]

do you mean you'd put yourself on tv?... that wouldn't be cool.

[PonyOne]

Why?

[stratman42]

Exchange it into pounds sterling.....:p Then proceed to pay someone like Malmsteen or Satch to teach me, quit school, fund my own band with good friends and musicians, buy lots of nice guitars, still have lessons with my current teacher cos he's cool, buy a new "cellphone", jam with famous guys, have a nice house, let people download my amazing music off the internet free of charge buy people who are important to me nice houses, set up charities/donate to current ones, fund my school (a supposed technology college) so it has more building materials than MDF,invest a sizeable amount in a high interest account so i never have to work again, buy my own PC so i dont get shouted at whenever i download something or something happpens to this one, buy a whole village in the Yorkshire Dales and live their with my friends.....mebbe a tropical island too..., probably pull a lot more (even if they only want me for my money*sniffle*), still send the odd thing on this forum, fund a HUGE, almost definitive tablature site that would be very reliable, have lots of bodyguards whenever i feel the need, make power metal and prog metal the worlds most popular music genres....somehow, go see lots of ace bands, go see some not so ace bands jus so i can say i've seen them.....is that enough?

[Devin11]

Lets see....I would buy every guitar and accessorie and pedal ever made and i would buy the worlds biggest house and i would try to get alot of hot women lol! :P

[iamthe_eggman]

I would buy all the salt & vinegar chips in the world, as well as all the salt & vinegar in the world. The resulting monopoly on those three items would lead to my achieving world domination, in line with the Keynesian model of economics.

[PonyOne]

while you're at it, purchase all of and figure ot some way to patent/trademark all peppers in the world; the Central and South American gov'ts would crumble before you like the towers of Babel as their people threw the Revolucion de Picante.