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Laser disc never died either; just ask my 8th grade science teacher and his collection of documentaries. Still (!) evidence of use today.

The remote people don't get to take their eyes off the screen...

It would be a lot better without karma.

This occurs mostly in private student loans vs. federal ones. Private offers even fewer options than the federally mandated ones provide.

I was really good at parks & rec basketball. I was so good that sometimes I'd score for the other team, too.

There's still an idea of wearing the pitcher out in the majors. Of course, if you're an ace throwing no-nos then you can routinely go 110+ pitches per game. Most pitchers go about …

I was speaking more about "riffage" over presence, but I'll keep an ear out for it. If anything to say, "here, listen to this".

8. The answer is 8. 7 was so late-90's/early-00's. 9 string still gets laughs. But wait long enough and everyone will want to get lower.

I ponder GC's choices. It was like a cancer in my major metropolitan area. Within 5-10 years all the mom-and-pop stores with a good solution of beginner and high-end equipment left…

Slightly related, and assuming you like Blues, have you seen Joe Bonamassa's videos and tours of his collection? Very cool, too. Emphasis on Fender/Gibson, but still quite entertai…

The parallels to technology careers and music backgrounds is staggering, for sure.

> Confession: I've been playing since I was 16 years old, and I didn't buy a new guitar (an acoustic) until I was over 30 years old. There was no need to. When I started playing gu…

This is evolution in the industry. It opens itself up to another whole population that wasn't seriously marketed before (Pink cheap guitars, Guitar World Swimsuit edition buyers' g…

I didn't downvote, but pegging the guitar as something with a "terrible user interface" was probably your problem.

LOL, $1k on a new Les Paul. Serious players will still spend serious money on stuff. I think it has a lot do with oversaturation of the market. In the beginning, when White Stripes…

Long-lasting alloys/coatings/technology will skew your results. Especially considering all they had back in the heydey was Nickel (soft). But that's a great idea!

They're an investment, plain and simple. The holy grails outlasted their original owners, and with enough care (even playing!) they'll outlast the current owners. I mean, it's very…

> 90% of kids learning guitar quit in the first 2 months (according to Fender) True, just ask anyone who's ever had a teaching career in guitar (or music). It's hard, everything ab…

Almost every collector I've met usually collects with the market. Not all of them hoard as much as you'd traditionally think. They're always buying/selling trying to get that Holy …

Fender and Gibson are iconic, classic brands. They'll never deviate from what they do; because when they do (look at the double-cutaway Les Paul they just tried to hawk) they get t…

OP values Dylan over Tay-Tay. That's okay. My daughter thinks the opposite. That's also okay, and evolution of popular music.

When I was teaching guitar, the overarching trend I saw again and again, from the South the Midwest (so not a complete profile, but one large enough) was an interest in playing gui…

They're not dead, yet.

Or position yourself in a market that's competitive where you can demand higher wages and still benefit from tax/mental/equity-based benefits of having a stable home. If stable is …