what the.... how come i never see you bragging about how much these stuff cost and how much better they sound than what 98% of the members here own and constantly rub it in? .png "lol")
Because these things are just tools and a pissing contest about tools doesn't make any sense.
At the end of the day, it's about what a person creates and 99% of that is what's in the heart, head, and fingers.
The folks who should be admired are those who create coherent expressions of themselves regardless of the tools they use: those old blues dudes wailing on cheap stellas, early Artur Rubenstein on remarkably ordinary pianos, the Beatles doing Sgt. Pepper's on a lowly 4-track machine, the legless guy on the bangketa in quiapo cranking it out with a pampanga special through an amp made of old transistor radio parts, Mike Tupas laying it down with Pinikpikan on drums made with chisels, a pocket knife, and the skin from yesterday's lunch in Palawan. Singular, timeless, seductive, and totally toneful.
And besides, bragging is a real bummer.
