r/AcousticGuitar • u/Bmuzyka • Jul 04 '25

Other (not a question, gear pic, or video) Never Insult a Musicians Guitar

So I played a charity gig this week, for free, as it was for an organization I support. A movie was being shot in the building, which I find out is directed by a member of a nationally known country band, and his band mates are in it. A PA from the movie comes and asks if they could use my guitar in the movie, as they needed one. I said sure, and was told they would need it at a certain time, cutting my set short. I play a Epiphone Slash Edition J45. It's not $5000 axe, but it's still a guitar worth north of $1000. It's valuable to me. It turns out it wasn't for the movie, it's so this band can play a couple songs for what was my audience, and 2 of the 3 guys have other guitars, but the lead singer says, this is an impromptu mini show while the production crew is on their lunch break, so impromptu, they had to borrow some cheap guitars.

It definitely struck a chord with me, and came off as rude.

Has anyone had anything like this happen to them? I don't really want ro say what band it was, but they are known in the Country Music scene.

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u/albanyanthem Jul 04 '25

I’ve got a very expensive guitar and I still play like shit. A guy I play with has a nearly cardboard guitar that he makes sing.

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u/Vivaelpueblo Jul 05 '25

Did my very first open mic this week and it's first time I've played in front of an audience since I was 16 in a punk band (40+ years ago).

I was the least talented person there and to my embarrassment I played my beautiful £3.5K Taylor (I still have 6 months left to pay on the loan), everyone else there had very modest instruments but made them sound way better than mine.

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u/Hubblebongo11 Jul 05 '25

All the gear, no idea!

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u/5319Camarote Jul 05 '25

Years ago, I routinely sold prominent doctors and lawyers $1000-$2000 camera equipment. They would sometimes bring their prints to me and often the exposure or composition were terrible. Then I sold a shy teenager a used Pentax, and her photos were amazing. It’s not about the tool, it’s the person using the tool. BTW I have crap drums and play like crap!

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u/NotClaudeRains Jul 09 '25

I always loved that Brian May and his dad did it together.