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Johnny Storm · 16-04-2009 10:22AM #1

Now you can rent out various high end guitfiddles (USA only? :mad:)

https://www.guitaraffair.com/how_it_works.php

"Make a date with a world-class guitar" :pac:
I hope they clean them properly in-between "rentings"

brendansmith · 16-04-2009 01:19PM

Jesus!!

If you are rich enough to pay $400 a week to rent a guitar then you are rich enough to pay the $6000 to buy it imho.

rcaz · 16-04-2009 02:44PM

YAWN

What real musician would bother with this kinda stuff?? Your instrument is supposed to be your own thing, with a story and a history and a bit of meaning. Guitars aren't ****ing DVDs!!!

This just encourages pretentious elitism and uninformed wankery.

Quattroste · 17-04-2009 01:30PM

El Pr0n wrote: »

This just encourages pretentious elitism and uninformed wankery.

Quote of the week.

Ravelleman · 17-04-2009 01:51PM

El Pr0n wrote: »

This just encourages pretentious elitism and uninformed wankery.

How?

rcaz · 17-04-2009 02:50PM

Anyone who's actually into guitars will buy guitars. So then you get guys (or girls) who are going to rent guitars, whether it be to play them and pretend they're people they aren't to satisfy a midlife crisis, or as a display piece like a painting or something. How is that not pretentious?

A custom shop strat, even though not my cup of tea, is a very well-built guitar. But it's been well-built so that it can be played by a musician. Any musician worth his or her salt will OWN INSTRUMENTS. And someone who doesn't own instruments but will pay $400 a week for a great guitar is pretending.

I'm not saying you're going to get this with everyone, but do you not think that you're gonna get people saying, "Oh, I was playing Brian May's guitar last week, it was a beautiful instrument... What do you have? A Squier? Oh, right..."?

Zangetsu · 17-04-2009 03:16PM

Rent and run ftw...

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