Growing up a music fan, I never gave much thought to a musician's gear. My interest in music and musicians was solely in the songs and the lyrics. When I envisioned myself being a musician, I pictured writing lyrics and coming up with songs and that's it. It wasn't until I really started following music and musicians online the last five years or so that I was hit with how technical the job is. Musicians spend, it seems, much more time discussing their gear than their songs or music. I suppose if I took up the guitar as an instrument as a youngster, I would've found that out early on. But I played the piano instead. Take your average musician's electric guitar. To get music out of that thing takes more than the guitar. it takes a pick, capo, amplifier, microphone, tuner, effects pedals, and many other things that a humble writer like me doesn't know or couldn't describe. I just know they probably involve miles and miles of cables. This made me glad ...
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