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Post by prettynoiselab on Jul 17, 2007 20:58:57 GMT -7
Ok, I now have so much GAS for the Galaxie I look like a pregnant guppie ready to explode. I initially wanted one of the limited ed. SRZ's but after hearing about this new beast I can rest assured I won't be disappointed on my next purchase from the good Doctor. How do I tell my wife I need a Galaxie head to sit on top of my Maz Jr NR. Is there a way to explain the not so subtle nuances of each amp and why my life is not complete without another amp? At the rate Doc is going I don't think I'll ever have to buy from another builder in the business. Oh well, my heirs will be the happiest tonemeisters in existence in the far, far future. Anyways just wanted to ramble and express my stoke on Dr. Z and all of you here on the forum. I check the msg board everyday and it makes me feel great to be in all of your presence. Someday I might even get on stage with you all and play those 3 darn notes that I OWN Take care, Doug O
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Post by hdahs143 on Jul 18, 2007 0:01:26 GMT -7
It is easier to ask for forgiveness, than permission. ;D
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Post by tjstrat on Jul 18, 2007 5:28:21 GMT -7
Just sell a lot of other cool gear, like I always have to.
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Post by dock66 on Jul 18, 2007 6:23:36 GMT -7
She'll understand when you bring some long stem red roses and ask for her forgiveness.
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Post by prsnstrat on Jul 18, 2007 6:36:30 GMT -7
Just sell a lot of other cool gear, like I always have to. Ditto that!!
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Post by Joey Beverages on Jul 18, 2007 6:56:27 GMT -7
It is easier to ask for forgiveness, than permission. ;D +1 on that and, long stem roses won't hurt either ;D
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Post by groovergeorge on Jul 18, 2007 7:08:13 GMT -7
Now you're all starting to sound like a recent Brad Paisley tune.
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Post by billyguitar on Jul 18, 2007 7:33:06 GMT -7
One of my grandfather's used to just come home with a new car. He also came home a time or two and announced to start packing, he'd just bought a house. Never asked or discussed it with anyone. Those were the good old days! Right now one of my brothers and his wife are living out of their motor home while they look for a house. He says he can't discuss any of them with his wife until he's sure it's a good candidate. He says they're both so tired of looking that she'll take anything and he's holding out for something that will work the best for them. What a hassle! I'd go with the forgiveness plan myself. the down side is she'll probably extract an equal value 'gift' as well.
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Post by prsnstrat on Jul 18, 2007 7:48:42 GMT -7
I'd go with the forgiveness plan myself. the down side is she'll probably extract an equal value 'gift' as well. You can count on that!
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Post by Don on Jul 18, 2007 17:35:24 GMT -7
You guys tell your wives? Someone here once brought up a good point. StudioSlips cases hide all sins and create less stress in marriages.
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Post by prettynoiselab on Jul 18, 2007 18:27:52 GMT -7
You guys tell your wives? Someone here once brought up a good point. StudioSlips cases hide all sins and create less stress in marriages. Oh man! StudioSlips would work great! It reminds me of a buddy of mine who wanted to buy a new surfboard but his wife would freak out. He had the best plan, Normally when you get a new board it is either a pristine white or whatever cool lookin' airbrush job you like. What he did is he asked the airbrush artist to airbrush his board so it looked all waterlogged and beat-up, relic'd so to speak. I saw the board and it was great. To the wife it was just another beat up board in his collection but the shape and fiberglass was brand new. People also have less of a tendency to eyeball it and attempt to steal it. Hmmm, perhaps a relic'd Galaxie is calling my name. Scratch off the "G", age the knobs maybe even replace one with a different color, a bit of torn tolex and I am undercover Ketih Richards style! Nah, I'll just tell my wife the Galaxie brings me one step closer to heaven and let er rip.....
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Post by tjstrat on Jul 18, 2007 19:06:44 GMT -7
It is easier to ask for forgiveness, than permission. ;D And it's easier to hide something from your better half if you buy a Studio Slip, put something heavy atop the new toy, and if she STILL notices, tell her, "oh no, that's been back in the basement for ages..."
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Post by Jan on Jul 18, 2007 20:29:27 GMT -7
Roses are nice, but what has anyone brought home for their wife lately that is worth this much? Some perspective helps, because basically we are not worthy, are we boys?
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Post by nitehawk55 on Jul 19, 2007 5:15:49 GMT -7
Walk softly and say NOTHING !! Honestly , unless I don't use my own money to fund a purchase my wife usually never notices gear coming or going
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Post by zimmer on Jul 19, 2007 5:18:38 GMT -7
The "equal value gift" works wonders, but makes each amp purchase twice as expensive. It's mighty tough to get to an amp quota with all the choices out there, but some folks seem to get to a set number, and swap from there.
If the heat gets to be uncomfortable, there's always the internet to show the spouse how bad it can be by showing off someone else's collection of twelve or seventy amps. A handful of amps don't seem so bad, then.
"you can't play them all at once"
8^) Just kidding.
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Post by Curt on Jul 19, 2007 6:06:15 GMT -7
"you can't play them all at once" Stevie did
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Post by jwr on Jul 19, 2007 18:33:51 GMT -7
Hell ya he did!!!! I'm not married yet, so I'm buying all my gear now, before the mortgage and kids ruin all my fun. LOL
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Post by prettynoiselab on Jul 19, 2007 19:25:56 GMT -7
Hell ya he did!!!! I'm not married yet, so I'm buying all my gear now, before the mortgage and kids ruin all my fun. LOL Darn good idea. I am now married and I can't be my old fun selfish self. It was fun back then but I am having just as much fun now.
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Post by highway61south on Jul 19, 2007 20:27:43 GMT -7
Well I'm no longer married,but when I was I always told my wife I had been abducted by aliens.I can't understand why i'm not still married....LOL....Sterling
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Post by jwr on Jul 19, 2007 20:48:50 GMT -7
I understand that kids will be fun. But, my selfish ways of buying guitars and amps will definitely slow or stop all together. And that's O.K. Better to get it out of my system now, right? My advice may not be too good for you but life is short, buy the amp!
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Post by tjstrat on Jul 20, 2007 4:33:24 GMT -7
Walk softly and say NOTHING !! Honestly , unless I don't use my own money to fund a purchase my wife usually never notices gear coming or going Well, NOW it can be told... Mighty apologies went out, and still go out telepathically to Nitehawk over a messed up deal for a G&L Comanche a few months back... I was in the bank, had the money order nearly printed and signed, when the Mrs suddenly walked in on a completely unrelated errand, saw what was happening (with my own money, mind you) and suddenly grew snakes from her head and a mouthful of fangs. And reminded me that she had the name of a ferocious divorce attorney. Totally, heinously busted, and I was out a guitar and Nitehawk out of his cashflow. Fellas (and ladies), I love my wife, but there are times when I wish I'd just gone on tour with someone and never looked back...
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Post by Michael Bartee on Jul 20, 2007 11:29:08 GMT -7
I think we all know this feeling. ;D
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Post by Teleman on Jul 21, 2007 15:28:51 GMT -7
They get over it. A freind of mine used to ahve a shop and he had this one customer that bought about 15 guitars from him. The guy never bought a case with them. He would put the new guitar in an old case he had and smuggle them into the house that way. His wife supposed;y never noticed.
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Post by Don on Jul 21, 2007 16:28:00 GMT -7
They get over it. A freind of mine used to ahve a shop and he had this one customer that bought about 15 guitars from him. The guy never bought a case with them. He would put the new guitar in an old case he had and smuggle them into the house that way. His wife supposed;y never noticed. Wait a minute, wait a minute. The wife never saw 14 guitars sitting around the house without cases?
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Post by Shannon on Jul 21, 2007 17:13:01 GMT -7
It helps to know the Jedi mind trick.
Wife- "Is that another guitar?" Husband- (waving his hand infront of her face) "This is my old guitar that I already had. Now fix me some supper." Wife- "That's your old guitar. What would you like for supper?"
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Post by Don on Jul 22, 2007 6:00:49 GMT -7
It helps to know the Jedi mind trick. Wife- "Is that another guitar?" Husband- (waving his hand infront of her face) "This is my old guitar that I already had. Now fix me some supper." Wife- "That's your old guitar. What would you like for supper?" Hmm. Does that work on the women in 'Bama?
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Post by Michael Bartee on Aug 1, 2007 12:55:43 GMT -7
No!
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Post by Surreal McCoy on Aug 2, 2007 11:03:49 GMT -7
The only thing I like more than playing my "Z" is flyfishing. And flyrods are as attractive to fly fishermen as Z amps are to the Z nation. Plus, you can't hide a new flyrod under Studioslips. So there's this buddy of mine that has the same flyfishing bug and didn't let his wife know he'd spent $500+ on a new Winston fly rod. He just leaned the rod tube in the corner of the garage with all his other fly rod tubes and figured his wife wouldn't notice one more in the mix. Later that same day, they headed out to dinner. As they walked through the garage to the car, his wife glances in the corner of the garage and asks, "Did you get a new fly rod"...... ?? My dear friend Mike, always the quick thinker, says, "Oh, that one? That's Bill's. He left it in my car last time we went fishing." The next day we're all hanging out at Mike's store - he's a tobacconist - and he is telling all of us about how he escaped a fate worse than death by blaming the new rod tube on "Bill". We'll, Bill was in the store listening to his good friend Mike tell this story and gets an idea. Bill heads to Mike's house, knocks on the door, Mike's wife answers and Bill says, "Last time Mike and I went fishing, I ended up leaving my rod in the car, do you know where it is"? She did. She gave Bill the rod and he still has it today. Every know and then he even lets Mike fish with it...... Funny story, but don't any of you come knocking on my front door and ask my wife if she's seen the new Galaxie that one of my buddy's left in my truck......
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Post by rcrecelius on Aug 2, 2007 11:11:57 GMT -7
The only thing I like more than playing my "Z" is flyfishing. And flyrods are as attractive to fly fishermen as Z amps are to the Z nation. Plus, you can't hide a new flyrod under Studioslips. So there's this buddy of mine that has the same flyfishing bug and didn't let his wife know he'd spent $500+ on a new Winston fly rod. He just leaned the rod tube in the corner of the garage with all his other fly rod tubes and figured his wife wouldn't notice one more in the mix. Later that same day, they headed out to dinner. As they walked through the garage to the car, his wife glances in the corner of the garage and asks, "Did you get a new fly rod"...... ?? My dear friend Mike, always the quick thinker, says, "Oh, that one? That's Bill's. He left it in my car last time we went fishing." The next day we're all hanging out at Mike's store - he's a tobacconist - and he is telling all of us about how he escaped a fate worse than death by blaming the new rod tube on "Bill". We'll, Bill was in the store listening to his good friend Mike tell this story and gets an idea. Bill heads to Mike's house, knocks on the door, Mike's wife answers and Bill says, "Last time Mike and I went fishing, I ended up leaving my rod in the car, do you know where it is"? She did. She gave Bill the rod and he still has it today. Every know and then he even lets Mike fish with it...... Funny story, but don't any of you come knocking on my front door and ask my wife if she's seen the new Galaxie that one of my buddy's left in my truck...... Great story
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Post by detuned on Aug 2, 2007 15:39:22 GMT -7
My wife pays the bills, there's no "sneaking" in my house.
However, she's always been supportive of my tone habit. I don't get everything I want, but I do get what I need.
Most of the time. :-)
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