Late today, sorry.

Prompted by the "Sad Goodbye To An Old Friend" thread -- I have been looking for the dividing line between a card-carrying musician and a non-musician (a dope like me) ever since I got here, and today I got a big hint. Total obsession with your instruments, past, present, and future is critical. I thought this was merely Rick Fielding and a few Martin guitar fetishists -- turns out the whole place is a seething mass of instrument fetishists. I am duty bound to say that while I like the things, this sexual frenzy, sentimentality, nostalgia, and longing for that guitar which will never be, is completely alien to me (I save it for other things). They seem to be pet, lover, friend, historical marker, security blanket, torment, all in one....Maybe one day.....