yeaaaaah. Check your sources though, jerry didnt have a guitar worth more than $1000 up until like 1974 (SG's back then didnt cost nearly as much as they do now, same with LP's), after they went on 2 europe tours and were one of the top acts in the biz, and then he bought "Wolf" from irwin for $1500, and used that guitar for the next 6 years. it wasnt until 1980 that jerry actually played a "8 thousand dollar guitar", and by then he was 38 years old and had already led the dead through 15 years. These musicians did not sound good because of their guitar, they actually are/were good musicians...you make it sound like they would totally suck if they played through a cheaper guitar (Jerry played synth's through a Fender Standard Strat with a roland thingy in it in 1989 before he got Rosebud, thats a $350 guitar with the synth in it...and he made it sound great)

tell me, if you had $10,000 to spend on a guitar, would you just keep playing your beat up SG, or would you get a new, nice one? simple logic.