I've gotten an 8 string guitar, which has opened up new worlds for me in sound. I've been exploring it in a new prog metal band. I've also been doing acoustic material with a female singer. Up until this point it's been covers, but we are now putting together original material.
So surely, I couldn't possibly need any more guitars? Surely I have everything I need?
Well, yes. At the moment I have everything I need to be fully creative in the projects I'm working on. However- I have a guitar hit-list of sorts that still has a couple of things on it.
Many readers won't understand this. I know, I can only play one guitar at a time. That much is true, but guitars all have different voices.
Sure, you COULD play blues on my 8 string. However, it would probably never sound as good as it would on a hollow body. You could play metal on a road worn telecaster, but you won't get the sound or feel you'd get from guitars built with that in mind.
Here are a few of the guitars I wish to own in the future:-
A double neck- possibly the BC Rich Bich one.
A hollow body- probably the Hagström Viking Baritone
A Harp guitar
An Ibanez Universe
A Gibson Flying V
Some kind of Single-cut
An Ibanez Destroyer
An Ibanez Fireman
Those are some of my more realistic aspirations. There are others, but they go from the sublime to the ridiculous. I also hope to make the jump to Axe-FX or Kemper for sound modelling, as well as numerous effects to expand my pedalboard.
I'll always be chasing that sound in my head- and no single piece of gear has it.
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