15 watts is all you'll ever need

[MadAsAHatter]

I don't have answers to these questions that you will agree with or be pleased by. I can only say that gear quickly takes on a whole different light when you are in a gigging situation for a large part, or for all of your income. I'll leave it at that.

You can still say your opinion even if I may not agree with it.
Based on what you've said here I'm guessing it's something along the lines of seeing gear as a tool for the job and nothing more.

 

[VonBonfire]

You can still say your opinion even if I may not agree with it.
Based on what you've said here I'm guessing it's something along the lines of seeing gear as a tool for the job and nothing more.

That's pretty much it. It's a tool for the job. Yeah, like anyone here I enjoy nice gear/tone but once it's something that is gigged i.e taking a beating, the parameters for what is of benefit changes. That's how I went from a half stack to a twin. It was born out of convenience for working in congested nightlife areas...

I see rooms full of gear as more of a hassle than a blessing, but that's also cause I exist on a musician's budget i.e a shoestring. A half dozen moves across the country makes you wanna pare it down to the essentials. I own less nice stuff, gear and otherwise, today, than I did 15 or 20 years ago but my gigging tools are much more dialed in that anything I owned previously.

I've often though about what I would buy gear-wise if I sold my house and had some spare thousands to blow and the answer is probably some speakers and a third Twin Reverb...redundancy (assuming I was still gigging). Maybe a Quad or a Showman. How boring. But really I'd probably rather have a new 4 wheeler so I don't have to haul firewood in a wheel barrow no more.

 

[MadAsAHatter]

That's pretty much it. It's a tool for the job. Yeah, like anyone here I enjoy nice gear/tone but once it's something that is gigged i.e taking a beating, the parameters for what is of benefit changes. That's how I went from a half stack to a twin. It was born out of convenience for working in congested nightlife areas...

I see rooms full of gear as more of a hassle than a blessing, but that's also cause I exist on a musician's budget i.e a shoestring. A half dozen moves across the country makes you wanna pare it down to the essentials. I own less nice stuff, gear and otherwise, today, than I did 15 or 20 years ago but my gigging tools are much more dialed in that anything I owned previously.

I've often though about what I would buy gear-wise if I sold my house and had some spare thousands to blow and the answer is probably some speakers and a third Twin Reverb...redundancy (assuming I was still gigging). Maybe a Quad or a Showman. How boring. But really I'd probably rather have a new 4 wheeler so I don't have to haul firewood in a wheel barrow no more.

This can be said about a lot of things; tools, cars, shaving razors, pens, etc. Some people like having a "collection" for personal use and entertainment, others see things as tools for the job and only needing the essentials. Then there's the third option of both a collection and tools. All are reasonable and valid viewpoints; just a matter of perspective. Nothing upsetting about any of that.

I think my original point still stands. It doesn't matter what/how much you own, why you have it, or how you use it. The main thing is that you enjoy what you have and what you're doing with it.

Really, that's one of the draws of Rig-Talk over other gear forums. Unlike other forums **cough TGP TDPRI cough cough** no one gets shit on for what they do/don't have, how talented they are, or whether they're a pro or bedroom warrior. You just catch hell for blindly parroting something someone said on the internet once and talking out your ass.