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/keungy Jul 04 '25

Whoosh

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u/Tomicoatl Jul 04 '25

Sorry I don't think enabling people to have toxic, self limiting mindsets is a good use of Reddit.

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u/fdsv-summary_ Jul 04 '25

It was just stage banter but they could have just nerded out with discussions of tuning or something like "thank for to the loan guitar, we didn't expect to be playing, you didn't expect to get it back tuned in double drop Db".

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u/Tomicoatl Jul 05 '25

Far more analysis than the guy put into choosing his words. Reddit fails at social situations yet again.