It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
That's just the way it is nowadays. People are paying him to provide entertaining content because youtube no longer will. From a business perspective, this strat might be viewed as an asset that elevates his brand (serious musician), and yes: assets can be divested if the company goes bust.
Several years ago I remember reading an interview with Joe. He said that he doesn't get attached to guitars, that they're just bits of wood, and that they're tools tools to get the job done, that's all. Something to that effect, anyway. To me it's an excellent insight to consider, especially for our lad Dave. To differentiate between actual needs and unnecessary wants can be difficult when GAS explodes in our face (pun unintended); to embarrass yourself online with the latter and getting others to fund it is simply unjustifiable IMHO.
Guitars.
Bits of wood.
Tools.
That's all they are.
A '62 strat is nothing more and was never meant to be.
I don't think somehow that purchasing this strat will change his career or life in any way.
If he does happen to get the amount required, funding him the means to get the strat will do him no favours whatsoever and I suspect it'll end up being a bittersweet acquisition that'll turn sour over time. If I was one of his mates I'd be telling him to shut the whole thing down, let it go and move on. Personally I'd rather be known for working hard and making it with a cheap squier than a public funded '62 strat totalling a small fortune.
Honestly, he might not recognise it now but it's got 'buyers remorse' written all over it, and not just at a monetary level.