onewilyfool Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 How do you know you have GAS? (Updated and worth a new post in new forum!!) If you enthusiastically talk to non-playing friends about guitars all the time (regardless of their yawns and eye-rolls) You probably have GAS. If you get excited when you see a guitar positioned in the corner of a movie scene . You probably have GAS. If you sit close to the TV when a band is playing trying to work out what make and model they are playing, you probably have GAS. If you have more guitars than your can physically play......you've got GAS If you have some guitars that you haven't played in over six months....You've got GAS IF you don't know the exact number of guitars you have, You've got GAS If you get excited about when someone else buys a guitar in the forum...you've probably got GAS. IF you spend more time scouring forums, Ebay, Craig's List, than you do PLAYING your guitars.....You've probably got GAS. If you are sneaking Guitars into the house so that your wife doesn't see them, .....You've probably got GAS. If you are thinking like this, " You know, I don't have a guitar with (fill in the blank) (Koa, Walnut, Blackwood)......tonewoods on the back and sides yet.....You've got GAS If you already have a hand built custom designed guitar by a world reknowned Luthier, AND you are still looking for another custom designed guitar, You've got GAS If you have some guitars under the bed, in the closet, in the attic AND your music room is full already AND you are still looking for another guitar.....You've got GAS If you explain away all your guitars by saying."I am holding on to these as investments", You've got GAS If the spouse is saying, "honey, please come to bed" and you'd rather sit up and pore over eBay lisitngs.....You probably have GAS. If you find yourself short of breath every time you see a UPS truck.....You probably have GAS. If you've ever caught yourself thinking, "boy, if I wasn't married..."...You probably have GAS. If you have more than one guitar shop on speed-dial... If you're offered an early retirement buyout and don't take it because you haven't got all the guitars you want yet...You probably have GAS. if you haven't got time to play guitar because you're working a second job to pay for guitars...You probably have GAS. if you read any of these and thought, "THAT'S just normal"....You probably have GAS. If you are looking at a wooden table top and you are thinking, "Man, that would make a great back and sides to a guitar"......You probably have GAS. If you have to build an extra wing on your house to accomodate guitar cases.....you probably have Gas If you can't have house guests, because your guest room is filled with guitars......most likely you have GAS. If you have more guitars than you do pairs of bluejeans.....you probably have GAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetPeeves Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 LOL!! I can't say I have a lot of guitars, but a lot of that rings true. I guess I've got CHRONIC GAS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Always_Black Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 If you can navigate GC, MF, Gibson.com, or any other dealer's site directly to the guitar you want to see without looking at the screen, you probably have GAS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nid2007 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 If you find yourself focusing on the beautiful quilts in the conference room table, you probably have GAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nid2007 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 If you find yourself focusing on the beautiful quilts in the conference room table, you probably have GAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthonyc007 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 If you sit close to the TV when a band is playing trying to work out what make and model they are playing, you probably have GAS. If you are looking at a wooden table top and you are thinking, "Man, that would make a great back and sides to a guitar"......You probably have GAS. If you have more guitars than you do pairs of bluejeans.....you probably have GAS. I have been guilty of these lately! The conference table at my office is a huge piece of beautiful bird's eye maple. I mentioned this to a co-worker and they gave me an odd look: "what eye maple?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 LOL>...I find myself looking at ALL wood like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 yep I was in hawaii and instead of souvenirs I had two boxes of Koa shipped back guess that says it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Boy Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 LMAO! This happened tonight... When you're talking to your girlfriend's son and he say's, "my guitar is missing the bottom string." And you say, "wait, I keep extra strings in my car." You probably have GAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieDean Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 I definitely have a LOT of those symptoms!! How about if you frequently buy new guitars, sell them, and consider the loss as "not too bad for rental of a guitar for 4 months". ....speaking of ....my Epi Masterbilt 12-Fret is up on the auction block at sleaze-Bay.. PM me for details I just bought a Maple Masterbilt DR-500 this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitarGod319 Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 i have a BAD case of GAS!!!the whole test just screams me.but ill finally have a Gibby by the end of the year (if i make it).It will probably be a SG standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilliangirl Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 If you're counting how many of those you don't have because it's easier than counting how many you do have, then calculating what the percentage would be so that you can stay in denial, you probably have GAS. Btw, out of 24, I don't have 5 of them. Which puts me at only 79%. So I guess I'm okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 I sent a pic of a recent guitar purchase to a friend, and here is his response..... "I'd love to get one of those, but I just bought a Gibson electric. I'm just gonna have to stop buying guitars, so I can buy OTHER guitars!" Those of you with bad GAS will understand his logic just fine..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted March 14, 2011 Author Share Posted March 14, 2011 Thought I'd resurect this one for some of my friends....I don't need it, but sonme of you do....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 If you've ever 'snuck' a guitar into the house, you probably have GAS. If you have several guitars in the house your wife doesn't know are there, you probably have gas. If you have a secret storage unit for guitars your wife doesn't know about, you probably have GAS. If while watching the video footage of the tsunami wreckage in Japan, you spied an acoustic guitar, propped against the bumper of a mangled automobile and you wondered what make and model it was you probably have GAS. I know I did. I probably have GAS. I wonder about the guitar's owner's fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-minor7 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Yesterday while watching a piece of WWII television theater : In the middle of the play an unknown, not important character appears on the screen. It turns out the persons name is Mr. Gibson, which instantly gives me a series of minor tics. This combined with being in for between 90 and 95 of the test lines above, tells me I must be in a state of severe GAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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