Don't know if I can be arsed anymore.....

octatonic

It is the weather.

I'm usually fairly cheery- but even I'm struggling with the gloom.

welshboyo

Cheers guys, you have all cheered me up a bit :-) and @juansolo, I would love to have a milli escort...wasn't aiming that high...I spent most of my 1st time around rallying in a hedge..probably wouldn't be much better this time around (if it happens) and don't fancy telling the missus that the 60k I have just spent is now embedded in a tree somewhere!!!

NPP

I totally understand the motorsport fascination but maybe trackdays and a Mk1 MX5 will let you combine music and cars? Escorts are about the worst value for money you can get at the moment it seems. 

randomhandclaps

Jeeeezzz... this thread makes you realise how many forumites aren't very secure with their own virtual sexuality.  Giving a man a virtual hug doesn't make you virtual Liberace.  The man need a virtual hug so give the man a virtual hug. 

stickyfiddle

Don't sell everything. 

Done a bit of rallying myself- it's brilliant fun but huge money to do it often and/or competitively. My Dad has an ex-works Mk1 in the garage. NPP is right about Escorts- they were a brilliant choice 10 years ago but they're not getting any cheaper these days.

Either way, does this help? 

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5254/5482436832_b279695d8f_o.jpg

ThePrettyDamned

If you want a go Kart type track day car for peanuts, I drive a puma. Mine is the 1.7 zetec, but you might find the 1.6 has better tuning potential.

Other than that, it's worth the same as a nice strat, tele, lp or prs. So.... Don't be silly.

welshboyo

@stickyfiddle thanks..

@npp @theprettydamned yes, I'm looking at something cheaper, I've already spotted a prepped 205 gti for 1200 quid which could be cheap fun..

Keep an eye in the classifieds..need to speak with her indoors (who isn't keen on the idea)

meltedbuzzbox

give the guitar a break for a while

and man up a little, musicians are fickle at the best of times, bands fall apart etc

juansolo

Rallying is eyewateringly expensive. I've been around rallyists for many many years and even had a go at navigating last year. I'll echo what somebody else mentioned above, if you want VFM wheel time and aren't hung up in the competitive side of thing, trackdays are the answer. In terms of wheel time per £, nothing touches it. 

57Deluxe

yeah - can't beat an old Escort... who needs guitars when you can have a real classic...??

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-ESCORT-MK1-1300L-ESTATE-GENUINE-BARN-FIND-/121159605393?nma=true&si=Hs7w8MYxLwGRtV8KuNeLgip8LSs%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

knuckleberryfinn

Listen to as much unusual (for you) music you can, until you stumble across something that puts the fire in your belly again.

usedtobe

Guitars are shit, anyway. I say get rid!

citizen68

Bought a white Mk 2 Escort with full rally kit and hardened suspension for stupid money circa 1988. The car was completely stripped and had bare essentials to pass MOT - a real boneshaker & the stink of petrol would've knocked you out - but I was only 4 years into my guitar journey and didn't give a flying fec# about music gear back then - I just loved playing the guitar and starting out gigging. 

Don't remember much else about the car other than it had a 1600 crossflow engine and was the first car I had with rear wheel drive - great fun for about a year and a half, until it caught fire one hot summers day in a forest park  

I went through a few phases when I didn't lift a guitar for a hell of a long time, years - keep some of your good stuff if you decide on a clearout - you'll come back to it..

Good luck with the motor if that's what you end up doing!

Setzer

About 10 years ago I had got pretty fed up with playing the usual rock stuff I have played most of my life and guitar in general then one day I saw an advert for a rockabilly band, I gave it a call hooked up with the singer found a drummer and got gigging in what was probably the most fun I ever had playing live.

A total change from the type of music I loved and played almost exclusively to a type of music I had never paid any attention to got me right back into playing, 10 years later Im still loving the guitar and its right at the top of my favourite things I do.

Do what I did and try a total change of direction (rockabilly is a good choice!) and you might find that it was just what you were playing that you got bored with and not actually guitar or music.

xwolf5150

What or where you're playing is probably the answer.
I've just been through it.
Firstly I gave up bands a few years ago.. too many egos... and went solo.
Now my only limit is my own talent. . A big limit though.. lol.

Also I decided no more agent gigs after xmss.
I'm fed up of gigs where they expect a juke box to walk through the door.
They're not there to enjoy the artist or the music, if they don't know the song, you're crap.

Now I've found myself feeling much more positive.
I can challenge my playing more and learn songs I want to learn.
Plus I'm booking venues my friends tell me enjoy the performance.

Neil

OP, anything gets boring after a while so get back into motorsport if that's what you fancy. 

I left off the guitar for 15 years and came back refreshed and excited about it again, you will too. 

monquixote

viz said:

There's something about a LP that draws me. I think I want one.

@viz I think you should buy that 55 LP Jr purely because people's heads will pop when you start shredding Vai on it

monquixote

@welshboyo If you don't feel like playing just don't. I didn't feel like it in my early 20's. I didn't do anything dramatic like quit and sell my gear I just didn't play, and didn't join any bands for a bit. I ended up learning drums and playing in a few bands doing that, then playing some bass then coming back to it some years later. 

The one thing I will warn you if you decide to have a break (and I don't know if this is just me) my knowledge was still there, but the hands were so lacking that I couldn't make them do what I wanted them to do and they would get tired and ache which made me so annoyed that it would discourage me from playing. It took a long time to break the cycle and i still don't think I have anything like the speed I had when I was 20.

You are welcome to a hug, but I can't promise that during what starts as an entirely platonic gesture of masculine respect our eyes won't meet in one brief moment so laced with tension and unspoken intensity that though we'll never speak about it we'll both spend the rest of our lives thinking what if..  what if?

mike_l

monquixote said:

viz said:

There's something about a LP that draws me. I think I want one.

@viz I think you should buy that 55 LP Jr purely because people's heads will pop when you start shredding Vai on it

NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Unless it's at a blues jam.........

keithf

Wayno,book some duo gigs,we'll spit the singing and solo's and have some fun and earn a bit,hows that sound???