Do you get more attached to gear when you got it on your travels?

Cirrus

The kind of stupid question that you'll only get later at night I think. If you get a piece of gear while you're out and about do you think it's more interesting than when it just arrives in the mail? I do. Here's a couple of mine;

- Vox AC30cc2. My first valve amp, bought down in Poole on an awesome summer weekend in 2008. Me, my girlfriend and two mates drove down and stayed in a sailing boat in Christchurch, took the motor dingy around the coast, saw the red arrows and generally had an awesome time. I sold that amp last autumn and wish I hadn't, just because of the memories attached.

- Little Big Muff bought very cheap from a music shop in Prague this summer. Usually I hate big muffs, they've never worked for me before, but this one made me embrace the mid scoop/ vacuum cleaner sound and I've done some really cool music on it in the three months it's been on my board.

Phil_aka_Pip

Not really. I get attached to it if it 'works' for me. YMMV

Cirrus

That's way too pragmatic for art!
:P

Flanging_Fred

Picked up a NOS Zoom Ultra Fuzz from a little music shop in Bulgaria a couple of years back.

I tried it without knowing how to set it up correctly and just got a load of self oscillation noise and left it in the shop. My wife later convinced me to go back and get it.

I'm glad I did, it's an awesome pedal when you figure it out and I love it even more because I almost passed it by.