How Many Guitars Do You Really Need? The Truth Revealed!
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How many guitars does one guitarist really need? It's the classic question every musician faces-often from a baffled significant other! As guitarists, we know the answer is always 'just one more.' In this video, I dive into why we end up with so many guitars and how each one serves its unique purpose. From years of playing, to needing different tones for various gigs, to getting sent free gear by companies, our collections grow for many reasons. I break down the logic (and passion) behind amassing a collection and whether there's ever such a thing as too many guitars.
Leaving your wife some guitars to sell doesn’t not count as responsible estate planning. 😂
perhaps not but it's better than nothing...
As soon as I get the new one home I am all ready thinking on the next one. Then I begin to shop.
Man this hits hard....
Sounds like me too. Part of the fun is researching the guitar.
@@chriskitchen4772
I am on the hunt for a Gibson.
I am watching several currently.
I can’t reveal more at this point.
You understand I am sure.
Best of luck!!!
Great video. I told my wife if something happened to me, to call a friend of mine, who is a pro player, to help her sort my gear. He is honest and won't let her get ripped off.
Great tip!
My stable:
Squire Classic Vibe 50s strat
Squire Classic Vibe telecaster custom
‘83 Japanese squire bullet 1 (favorite)
Ibanez Am93qm (335 style)
Squire vintage modified 70s jazz bass
Taylor 210ce plus acoustic
That's a cool lineup.
yep, need them all! Acoustic, nylon string, jazz box, tele, strat, LP, bass, I even have a 12 string electric, a bass 6 and a mandolin. Never needed a banjo though! My wife never gives me a hard time since I have a storage unit. If I haven't purchased anything in a while she will ask "Why haven't you gotten anything new?" she's a keeper!
She's a keeper....
A true unicorn.😍
I always tel myself one more right ater the new one arrives brother. 🤣 I have a Fender Player Mustang II coming for my 9 year old. His guitar journey has begun. That lucky kid! haha
That is awesome!
My tech told me the equation to determining how many guitars I need is: x+1
lol
Hey Brad! I'm not much of a guitar player, but I love guitars, and learning about them. I'm glad you were able to keep your guitars, and land that gig! Keep rockin, man!
Thanks bro!!
I bought 18" tall metal bed frames (don't need box springs) to hide 25 guitars under the beds in the guest bedroom.
You slick guy you!!!!!
You've got it hard !
I was born 1962 with severe hearing loss in both ears. All my life I wore hearing aids and over two years ago I received cochlear implant in my right ear. With my hearing devices I could hear music which I grew up on especially being the youngest of 6. Middle school and high school I was in the marching band playing the Cornet so I was taught how to read music. Also as a teen when I got my first Billy Joel album it had the lyrics written on the album cover which made it so much easier to follow along for the first time. At 61 I decided I wanted to learn how to play the guitar and began with two beginners Fender guitars acoustic & electric so I could learn the difference between the two. Two weeks ago I got another electric so I would know the difference between single coils and humbuckers. Therefore, my purpose for having more than one guitar is to train my damaged ears to recognize the different sounds.
Man I applaud you for your journey and pursuit of tone. Very inspiring story. Wish you well on your discovery.
How many guitars did the WHO need? One new one for every new show - smashing.
They use to glue em back together
"...I don't know who they think they are- smashing a perfectly good guitar..."
love that song
The rodies earned their pay😂
Great video BB! Guitar consumption is definitely an addiction. Please do a video detailing your guitar collection. Nice old school VH photo in the back!
I need to do one of those videos....
They’re good to have, I plan to sell off several to pay off some van repairs.
Buy low and (try to) sell high haha.
Always try to do that....doesn;'t always happen.
Most excellent review and very informative ! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
He didn’t review anything 🤔
Thank You Bad Brad. 👏👏👏👏🌟🌟💯💯💜🤍💙❤️
Thank you so much!!!
Thanks!
Dana thanks so much!!!
My biggest fear is that when I die, my wife is going to sell all my guitars for what I told her I paid for them 😂
LMAO
Cool episode, one more is defintely a good one. Once you have enough gear the additions cannot be easily spotted by your supervisor 😂😅
Yes.....exactly....
Good plan, you are clever.😄
My Thought process with a new Guitar and Gear is usually.... "I don't need it... BUT I STILL WANT IT!!"
I agree!
My lady buys me new guitars. She asks me what guitar I've been drooling over and then finds one atnanserious discount somewhere and there it is on mynbirthday or under the Christmas tree. It's been a greatnpastn7 years. I moved in with 2 guitars. Now I have 14.
Amazing!!!
Oh, another unicorn ! 😍
@chriskitchen4772 It's crazy. She bought me a guitar and gave it to me on HER birthday. That was the last time though. The rest have been Christmas and birthday gifts. For my 50th birthday in 2020 she got me a Schecter Sun Valley Super Shredder in seafoam green. Absolutely one of the best Shredder axes I have ever played.
WOW
@badbrad So you know, I love your channel. You have the best stories. Been binging your vids to get caught up.
How many shoes and purses does the wife need?
EXCacTLY!
How many do we need? I used to go with two electrics for different styles/features (and fail-safe redundancy) and an acoustic. In retirement I've accumulated more electrics and another, nicer acoustic but I hardly play my acoustics. They're wall furniture except when the electricity goes out. I admit I 'need' less guitars than I have but like you said, I want one more. Always. A guilty pleasure for an old man. My rule now is I have to get rid of one first before buying another. And my last few new (to me) guitars were pawn shop fixer-uppers, usually Epis or Squiers, and a couple of those are my favorites now to play regularly. But if the house is on fire, I'm running out first with a Les Paul and a Tele.
Yes grab the Les Paul in case of emergency...
@@badbrad you bet
Don't forget the banjo dude.... you'd make a good Banjo Brad!!!
I'll take a GANJO.
OH ! i forgot I have a 1995 Honey burst les paul, I never play it too darn heavy lol
Yeah those are heavy.
Cool running!
Thank you!!!
brad, would like to hear you talk about the typical amp set ups for small clubs back then, how it worked then, outboard gear, and why it should work the same today!
L.A. days?
@@badbrad yes.. and thanks
Never really used combo amps out there. Most clubs would have a 4-12 cab on stage and you could just roll in with your amp head or use the house rig, some spots had the Carvin X100B amp head. I didn't use pedals, just dialed in a crunch tone and either rolled back volume for clean or switched to clean channel. Even in a small place like the baked potato...people played loud.....I never really had any outboard gear while I was out there till the tail end of my time....
Great channel
Thank you!!!
Your guitars are the tools of your trade, just like the tools and equipment of a mechanic or a woodworker. There are much worse things you could spend your money on.
Got that right, Sugar Britches!!!
You know it....
Hello …Betcha a cold beer 85% of guitar players out there don’t do paying gigs or even play out….Wanna bet ?🤔😊
@@edpetrikk2027 Probably so...
Time slipped away and I suddenly realized I hadn't bought a guitar in 30 years! Never had a maple neck so I got an Ibanez RG. My ancient rack stuff was about shot so I got one of those do-it-all pedals. These amp sims are cool! Had only used them in the DAW previously.
Some cool stuff out there these days…
Used to watch other channels now my mornings are breakfast with brad if I can't its Brad at bed time.
Much appreciated!
Oh Man ! It really depends on the situation (always evolving!), and most guitarists could write a book about it, but you forgot to talk about 'the effects rack'...! Pedals also, could be an entire chapter. In French, there's a say: "When you love it, you don't count" (Quand on aime, on ne compte pas). Take care
ps sorry for my bad English, hope you get it!
I do get it. I like that phrase....
For the last decade of so..I've had a 'good' guitar for each of the main, 'regular' tunings that I frequently play in.. E Standard..Eb standard and D standard..and use those same guitars if I ever need to use it for the closest drop tunings. Then I have 2 other, 'cheaper', guitars that I use for wonky tunings or that I use whenever I get the 'I want something new' urge. So 5 electrics..and for the last 10 years or so, I have been able to do everything that I've needed to get done. However...lately, I have been getting the urge to get something with true single coil pickups....I have a LP Junior..and while P90s are single coils..they don't sound exactly like the traditional single coil sound...so I've been fighting the urge to buy something like a player's series Tele. I tell this story because that is how 'I only need 1 more guitar' bug gets you.... You justify needing something....even though I've been fine without a guitar with traditional single coils for at least 10 years, I could easily convince myself that I need one....even though i'd only play it for about 5 minutes a day hehe.
Oh man I got to many with single coils...but I couldn't live without those pickups....
We do love those guitars and a few never seem enough. I read somewhere once that all one needs is a Les Paul and a Strat or a Tele. I would add to that an acoustic. I once had twenty something guitars and felt that I needed to sell a lot of them because it was getting crowded in my tiny apartment. I got down to about seven. Funny thing is, they seem to be multiplying again.😊
The always seem to multiply
Honestly, I’ve always told my girlfriends that it’s better I collect guitars instead of girlfriends 🙂
I will remember that one….☝️
Whenever I question certain purchases she has made my wife reminds me of all the guitars she’s been cool with me getting-LOL. At this point I have 10 and I’m feeling pretty content with what I have. I do have some Seymour Duncan pickups sitting on my workbench to upgrade a few of those guitars. That’s where I am at this point in my life-just taking what I have and enhancing those guitars. Waiting until the winter to do when I’m snowed in.
It's a trade off in any relationship. Pickup swaps are the perfect winter time activity.
Met this guy in my twenties, who told me: "All that stuff you are hording is dead capital. Get rid of it." Never listened. Another friend who died a few years ago said: "You need only one guitar." Didn't listen. But honestly, when the grim reaper comes, you can't take it with you anyway.
It's so true....
even though I realized while back resale on guitars is pretty low, it didn't stop me from buying three or four of the squire fenders for under 200 bucks and two my astonishment set up was really good and not much needed to be done. Even the pick up sounded good in a couple of these. Oh well who knows what's gonna happen in the future thanks for posting your vids
Thank you for watching!
Yes. I do get you don't need that many guitars but I am down to one each. In fact I am down several from the 2008-2009 recession.
It's all about what works for you.
Back in the 80s all the pawn shops in Alamogordo New Mexico had several hundred guitars in each store. People heading west would need money and they would pawn off thier guitars. Teles strats les Paul's
I was blow away. Most were in cases and stacked up. Wild
Wow
Like you said at the end, people always complain about you hoarding gear, but it's like money in the bank when life happens. Especially if you've only bought stuff at good deals. I had several unexpected major vet bills recently, Excess gear will cover most, if not all of it, and I'll just reinvest in more gear, and keep growing the guitar fund haha
There ya go
i trimmed a lot in 2018 but am slowly climbing i find need play one guitar mostly strat
I hear ya.
I do love a Strat.
I got to get back to the Guitar Exchange before the prices go back up. They said they would do some tradeing too.
Oh ya!!
Man, I am down to 2 electrics. I have a Hwy. 1 tele and a Les Paul I got from a lady who shaped guitars at Gibson for 30 years under the friends and family thing they do. I just sold my 50th anniversary strat not long ago but I never bonded with that guitar. I do like the Hwy. 1 strat with the jumbo frets and will find a deal on one some day. Peace!
Hey man you found what you like 👍🏻
Nice! 😎
Thanks! 😁
I'll add this. It doesn't even matter if your buying budget guitars when they are on discount, I still hear about it!
Me to bro!
I've got a 40th anniversary strat and a nice Ibanez Jazz box.... I sold my 1961 ES345 Gibson and my 1948 L50 Gibson, too much money there, and paid off the house with the sale.
Wow good on you!
I have been around musicians since I was a kid,my dad was in a country and western band and at that time he tried to get me to at least play some musical instrument.But now at 58 I started trying learn guitar again, I go from heavy metal to old country . I now have 3 electrics 2 acoustic and a bass guitar and still sound like 💩 . I bought a Washburn acoustic at a pawnshop last weekend when I have a $300 Yamaha. I bought a $500 Ibanez semi hollow at G.C. 2weekends ago when I have a great Les Paul (epiphone) 🤦🏻♂️..HELP before my wife finds out 👹
Man I can relate. You got the bug. Keep rockin’!
one more than you currently own, of course.
indeed....
Yep i have 17 right now. And have been playing on a 2008 silverburst star caster strat that was sold at walmart. It makes no sense how good this thing sounds. Im nailing the brown sound. So my cheapest guitar is #but hss is the way.
Very nice!
I’m most happy with the 27 scale baritones one with one without trem, one s s s one Tele alnico V from China, both Solo necks, both 2 3/16 bridges, 12p•24w•30w•36w•46w•52w D’Addario strings.
Two guitars same scale inherently satisfying sound spectrum and Fender - like.
Too many guitars is no bueno.
I hear you.
Dang! This video hits me hard. I have been going back and forth thinking about getting a Headstrong VC amp on consignment for $1300.
It's always something....
I am surprised, I only have 15 basses. About ten guitars, and a drum set (nice Yamaha Custom Birch with top hardware - more than I deserve).
Spector NS2 (current favorite)
1974 Fender Precision (most gigged by far)
2018 Fender Jazz American Standard
1965 Gibson SG EB-3
Ernie Ball - Music Man - Sting Ray "Old Smoothie" Ball Family Reserve (BFR)
BC Rich Eagle 1976 Sunburst - Bodine Era, Earliest spec, one of the 1st ever made
Maruszczyk Elwood 4a (current favorite)
Sandberg California VM
Mbasses Mj-5 2014 Sunburst
Mbasses Mj-4 2014 Natural
Carvin Bass Early 80's
Ibanez Roadstar II RB650 (1987)
Tokai Jaco Tribute Jazz Fretless early 80's
SX Fretless Jazz Bass (cheap Chinese model)
Michael Kelly Acoustic Bass (cheap)
Nice collection!!!
One vintage maple neck PBass, one modern active 5 string Jazz Bass morado board active passive pick ups & vintage tone control, one ES335 style type hollowbody with Novak pickups, 2nd hollowbody Gibson vintage style look single cut type hollowbody with dual, super Alnico 5 humbuckers mahogany back & neck , maple top... that's it... nuthin' else. Can handle anything.
That is a solid collection bro!!!! Nice.
@@badbrad thank you !
8:02->>> have a hunch it will be a good thing when you go through & debut guitars & gear>with the story
Great Idea...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's bored with sunburst finishes on guitars, lol. Related to what you said about vintage guitars: I was changing strings last night on my main Strat, a Player series that I'd modded with locking tuners. It got me thinking about vintage guitar nuts having to deal with old Kluson tuners, etc., with zero adjustability, basically. With locking tuners it's loosen the screw, take old string out, put a new one in, tighten the screw, done. None of this "Oh, you need wind the string around the post like this, with this many wraps, oooh, this is how such-and-such famous guitarist does it, none of that b.s. lol. And you can adjust the tension of the tuning keys so they don't turn when you so much as breathe on them.
Locking tuners are pretty much must on the road....especially if you have to change your own strings
Here is the science:
the formula is :
Ng= Gc+1
'Ng' is the required number of guitars where 'Gc' is the current number of guitars.
Yes indeed!
I used to think that guitars were a good investment, something like "poor man's real estate" but given the current glut of guitars on the market, I think I will stack them up like cord wood and use them for my funeral pyre!
That would be a sight....
2 electric bass left behind though, & small amp. I imagined any easy 3 piece band like Morphine to begin with. Only graduated to practicing & learning with a band that sounded like Perfect Circle. Learning just variety of riffs Then auto accident & neck surgery 🤕. Haven’t picked it up since 09. Moved to FL for the Sun 🌞 & beach (another dream ) Still love live bands though. Aced music theory but can’t grasp playing any instrument except “ more cowbell! “ 😂
The sun is very healing here as is the live music.
I have at the moment... 6 electric 🎸, one acoustic 🎸, and one bass... that seems to be enough at this time...
That's a good number...
I don't have enough
It never is...
A Strat, Tele, SG, Les Paul, and a good Acoustic Electric, and maybe a vintage acoustic or 3!😜😜😜
Nice selection....
I have way to many guitars. Last count I think was like 15. I ran out of space and have my favorite 5 and one Bass in the studio. Some of my most expensive ones I just did not connect with. Sitting in cases in closets. I use the one and only Bass I have for recording. I can get every tone I want out of it. It's an Ibanez SR700 with Bartolini active pickups. Got that thing new some 15 years ago from Guitar Center in Chandler AZ. I was on a business trip and had a day off. Went to GC and that was that. I do not think I will ever get another bass. I can sculpt any bass tone from this monster. Guess this shows I am a guitar junkie and a bass...just getter done thing. It's really stupid the money I have spent on unused guitars...Gear also...Ug..embarrassing really. I guess being a guitar junkie is better than being a drug junkie.
It is the better option....
@@badbrad I gotta share this...I do not lie. It's not a part of my thought process. I went through a chapter 13 bankruptcy 7 years ago. I had an IT business and lost almost everything due to a partner that got on meth. I was going through a job transition and had to sell one of the very last Ovation USA Custom Legends guitars made in the US. I put it up on Reverb. Sold it for about $1,200 I think. The person I sold it to is the interesting thing. I chatted on the phone with this man. He is a guitar hired hand that played on and off with Willie Nelson. So we were working out this deal and I was going on the road to work in Springfield Missouri in a couple days "BNSF conductor". He had a gig just out of Springfield coming up. He said that he had the exact same guitar and it was stolen from a bar. He chased them down the road and the thieves through his guitar out of the truck. It was broken beyond repair. So when he saw mine fore sale he had to have it. I sold it and he got it. He was very greatful. He was really happy with it. I was not able to make his gig due to my job. True story. Just wanted to share. I have one song and video I did all my self with that guitar. If you want too check it out, on RUclips look up "Prevailer Broken". I do not think RUclips will let me share the link. I wrote, recorded everything by my self.
Man what a great story and so glad you shared it. Wild.
I heard a guy say just get the same color woman only see color?!!She won't know the difference.
lol
All the guitars…that’s how many 😂
Exactly!
I have the ultimate response to the wife …. Well as I play professionally for a living I need this one to to this and that etc … a jedi mind trick lol
I have had that conversation so many times......
Everybody needs at least one Gretch. I had to get a used Japanese one but it was in great shape.
Yeah you gotta have one...
Have about 4 nice playing electrics and one or two nice acoustics. Tour with your two road dog electrics and bring your banger acoustic.
That is solid advice but....always room for more.
If you only had one guitar would it be a hss straf or prs i always read hss strat
HSS Strat if I could only have one...
Going through this now,I have 12 guitars and do not gig and I am thinking about buying another one,why.
It’s what we love.
@@badbrad exactly
Do you like hollow bodies? How is your hearing? I've got tinnitus and it drives me crazy at night. I only play acoustic now and I have a number of electrics sitting in their cases. Through the years I have sold only a couple. My girlfriend can't understand my sickness. Knowing they are there is a comfort that only guys like us can understand.
I do like Hollow Bodies but don't own one now. I have every now and then slight tinnitus. I can only speculate that perhaps I was spared due to excess ear wax....I don't know.
@@badbrad Ha Ha ..
@@terrygrady7683 You would think I would have crippling tinnitus but it's very mild and happens very rarely for me...I can't explain it...
"I have a few electrics still sitting in their case.... Knowing they are there is a comfort..." I feel the same way about the clothes, shoes, and purses I have with the tags still on them. 😂
I always hide my "new" guitars in the closet behind the broom...my wife NEVER finds them.
lmao
I've snuck in a few through that back door too. lol
Haven't we all....
somewhere between not enough and too many?
YES!!!
How many guitars do you need…?
Most of the time I would say probably one more the Keith Richards Guitar story reminds me… I don’t have a telecaster.
Got to get one bro....
@@badbrad had one in the past, I loved it and should not have sold it. Sometimes you gotta go through it to learn from it. Keith Richards is my all-time favorite guitarist by the way. He’s not the best guitarist, but he is my favorite.
He is one of my favorites as well.
Answer: How many hammers does a carpenter need?
At least 30
Me:
"This old thing? It's been sitting under the bed for years."
"Babe, you'd rather I'd be buying drugs?"
The wife:
"Aha! More candy from Sweetwater! What'd you get now?"
"One comes in, two go out."
Sweetwater candy is the best candy.
If you’re a great player you only need three…Me I barely need one 🙁😊. P.S. How many guitar companies would still be in business if every guitar player only had one guitar ?🤔
Not many...
That is me and I am not even that good. They color. got to look cool.
I worked my butt off and it messed up my back and hips. We flipped our house in Massachusetts and moved down here. I am not rich at all so it takes time to get them . But I will try to finish my bucket list of Guitars before I am done. I just enjoy playing . But I would sit in with a band with my harps, lone wolf and other harp peddles and green bullet anytime. I would prefer a few practice sessions but I could get by without them. I got a friend John Doyle a pro drummer maybe you might of met him . He played with a few pro bands and another guitar player friend Fred if you want to get a local thing going. I haven't started jamming with them yet because of my health but I might be able to soon I hope . It just fun for me.
I hear ya Jay. Have not considered playing down here yet.
This isn't the right question.
ok
Why are you whispering? 😅🤔
Filmed very early am, family sleeping.
Hey Brad that Mexico session. Sounds like a great band with a healthy production budget trying to polish a turd recording poorly written songs.
The songs were ok, the artist meh....
Fucking whispers. Just like nails on a chalk board
No need to cuss. If you don't like it...watch something else.
As Alex Lifeson....blah blah blah. Who cares how much gear you have.
I hear you.
18 hooks on the wall. Occasionally I just move everything around.
...."oh, that one. I just moved everything around ........."
Fortunately I don't really have any wants at the moment that I am likely to fulfill.
Just shift em around...
My delusions have determined that 12 guitars are necessary, so . . . .
13?
@@badbrad I'm trying very hard to suppress the urge, but . . .
good luck with that