the first step is admiting it

I envy all of you. If I wasn't such a poor college student I'd be rigt there with all you people. I'm counting the days until I get out of school and have a job and then I will be able to blow all my money. I'm like a heroin baby, I've got terrible withdraw from something I never even got to do. I have a guitar (ESP LTD MH400) and an amp, peavey valveking 112, and a cord that runs between them, that doesn't even really work well, it makes a lot of noise. I also have a metrenome and a tuner for when I change my strings.


Things I want, a new amp or two, new pickups (DiMArzio), recording equipment, I could go for a new guitar, I still need the one I have but a fixed bridge guitar would be real nice, i need a compressor, a delay could be fun for more interesting stuff, i need a mic, and interface and cords for them, software... It could probably go on for ever. So I guess what Im saying is, you could be worse off than buying too much gear.:(

I suppose I could always drop out of school... ;)

Welcome to the club my friend. :D

I've 3 Guitars, a keyboard, 3 amps and a drum set I think thats a good amount for an 18 year old :p

I started laughing when I went back to my post here that I made almost a month ago and realized that in the last 40 days I've picked up:

Fender PA150 PA system
Mic/speaker stands
LP Custom (get it this weekend!!!)


Make it stop!!!! AAAAAGGGHHHH

Since my first post in this thread, it is absofreakinlutely reduculous at the gear I've gone through! Since then, I have sold an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, and an amp... I have bought a bass, 2 electric guitars, an amp, a mixer, a mic, headphones, 2 pedals, a compressor, a power amp, and a midi keyboard.

I really need help! :(

I too am afflicted with the GAS

I'm now at:

18 guitars (4 PRS guitars)
3 keyboards (Roland, Casio, M-Audio)
2 saxophones (alto, soprano)
2 computers and 2 laps set up for music
4 amps (Fender, Kustom, Crate, Roland)
3 multi-effects guitar processors (Line 6, Rocktron, Digitech)
2 portable multi-effects processors (Line 6 Pocket Pod, Korg Pandora)

My next "gotta have it" is a PRS Hollowbody II

I need help :eek: :eek: :eek:

Whew, it's not just me, then. When I started this site a few months ago, I had an old Hagstrom and a couple of acoustics. I now have 7 guitars (counting the one I am finishing), 2 amps and am on my second modeling pedal.

I'm tormented with gas everyday, checking craigslist,fleabay etc... I currently own 3 guitars 3 amps and a ton of pedals I would like to sell, finally found an amp I really don't need them anymore, I just love gasing over gear

Current gear

1989 Stratocaster Fiesta red completely overhauled with goodness.

2009 usa Fender tele

2003 Godin ext 22

Fender superchamp xd with all sorts of aftermarket speakers for it

Fender champ

And My newest addition and my #1 Bogner Alchemist 2x12, insane amp

wow you guys are killing me....lolol
I have dream guitars that I want to buy but I am in no shape to get anything...my work hours keep getting cut and I just cant seem to bring myself to spend money on a guitar that I cant play any better than the ones I have now...lololol..I figure when I get better then I DESERVE one..lololol...well thats how I rationalize it anyway

I have an ibanez electric
a Dean acoustic
an ibanez acoustic
and an Ibanez mandolin for messin around on..I always wanted one...cant play it great but I always wanted one and now I have it!

oh and I have a digitech RG250 pedal and a small amp...that HAS got to be upgraded...

Jackson dxmg guitar, Greco speedway guitar, Ibanez rg guitar, Ibanez rg 7 string, custom scalloped fretboard strat, Tokai love rock guitar, 86 red Gibson explorer.

Stella classical acoustic

little over 20 pedals 4 have been modified.

peavey chorus 212 amp

mesa F-100 212 amp

x2 digital wiless


and I have an SG knockoff pending as well as many mods pending as well ;)

Originally Posted by: Itsmesillywow you guys are killing me....lolol
I have dream guitars that I want to buy but I am in no shape to get anything...my work hours keep getting cut and I just cant seem to bring myself to spend money on a guitar that I cant play any better than the ones I have now...lololol..I figure when I get better then I DESERVE one..lololol...well thats how I rationalize it anyway

I know how that feels. Here I am, looking high and low for shops and stores that carry Minarik Firebolts. Ever since I saw it in the 2010 Guitar World Buyer's Guide, I've been obsessed with getting it, $3,200 be damned! I can just pop it open, and it lands right on that page. Pretty soon, it'll start whispering to me at night, saying "Buy me.... buy me..."

It's not an addiction; it's a nightmare... a really... sweet... pleasant nightmare... with lightning bolt cut F-holes and Tone Perfect Resonata pick ups... neck-through design and symetrically cut flaming V design... and it's beautiful in red... ooooh... :drool:

OK, so I've only got one guitar so far (that won't last long), but you're all in the minor leagues compared to a guy I work with. He has 30 (count 'em) *thirty* guitars, complete with a specially-humidified room to keep them in (we're in Phoenix, where the relative humidity runs in single digits). His favorite? A Gretsch White Falcon. Oh, and a full-blown recording studio, too.

I'll never catch up, but it'll be fun trying...

Hello Everyone,
I have 8 guitars right now, and I still want at least a dozen more. If I still had every one I ever bought, it would be close to 30. The ones I have now are not for sale though, and I'd love to add a 53, or a 54 tele. I also want a custom made thinline tele, turquoise blue, black pearl pick guard, and a maple neck.

One of these days I'll get it, and that pre CBS vintage tele too. I never thought about the humidifier, and a whole room just for my guitars. I'm in Bisbee, Arizona, about 3 1/2 hours south of mbaker824. We don't get as hot as Phoenix does, but our humidity is usually pretty low. We have the monsoon coming up out of Mexico now, thunderstorms most every day means higher humidity. This will probably go on for about another month, then we'll be lucky if it rains anymore this year.

Hi Y'all!

I just started playing my guitar again after a LONG hiatus. I've got a Vox Phanton, and I've been looking at Strats. Found one today that a guy had to sell...American version, royal blue body, gold hardware, Noiseless pickups, not a scratch on it with the hard case for $700.

I'm happy.

i am up to 16 guitars 4 amps 2 digital recorders 1 halphstack an a computer with amplitube protools 9 for a portable recording studio jamvox an a crybaby wha

my favrite gear is 1982 gibson lespaul natural with 1057 paf pickups that was unfinised due to a fire at tennese gibson plant in 82 witch mae the studio not come out till 83 in an all natural swamp ash wood
then 72 tellecaster an 2002 fender strat customshop with deluxe everything
in black cherry red thinking about getting a gibson es-339 for my next act of addiction what do yall think maybe gibdon les paul supream?

Yes , know where you are coming from guys . Current count is 7 axes , 2 amps and a multitude of effects pedals . When my future wife asked " why do you need so many guitars ? " , I told her they are all in different tunings ( which is true to degree ) . She is learning at the moment , so she will discover my little ruse eventually . Will probably have a case of bleeding ears when she does .