KEEPERS

Guitars are funny things. We ought to simply examine our musical needs, buy a guitar within our budget that fulfils those needs, and then just focus on getting better at playing. But, as Roger Daltry sang in I’ve Had Enough: “Things ain’t quite that simple.”

It can be hard to shake the feeling that if we just bought that next guitar we might achieve more on the instrument than our poor backsliding selves have done to date. We might, if only we had that new guitar, turn our attention to practice with redoubled zeal. We might play more gigs. We might record