guitar playing is like golf

[RJB]

Well that's the analogy I came up with the other day talking to a non-player friend.

Think about it. Most guys that play golf will never enter a tournement, will never make any kind of money at it. Will spend hundreds of dollars on equipment looking for the feel. Actually have equipment that surpasses their playing ability. Have on obsession for the game that drives the spouse nuts.

And the reason the do it, is every once in a while will link 3-4 great shots together for a perfect hole.

Sound kind of familiar Just thought you guys might get a chuckle.

Ron

[dd842]

rjb said:

..... Actually have equipment that surpasses their playing ability. Have on obsession for the game that drives the spouse nuts.

And the reason the do it, is every once in a while will link 3-4 great shots together for a perfect hole.

Sound kind of familiar Just thought you guys might get a chuckle.

Ron

Good one, Ron!

Somehow, the idea of playing guitar in public (at my level, anyway - less than a year and a half) reminds me of the comparison of whether golf or baseball is tougher.

You know the one, where the golfer says "Yeah, but you don't have to play your foul balls." ;D

I think I still foul 'em quite a bit.

Dan

[tacobobbo]

Most of the golfers I know say they do it for either the exercise or for relaxation. The STRANGE thing is that the guys who do it for exercise ride around in golf carts. The ones who do it to relax (read to lower their blood pressure) seem to always hafta buy new clubs because they keep wrapping their old ones around trees when they miss a shot or two. ;D I'm gonna stick to smacking my thumbs with a hammer. Somehow it just seems more productive. ;D
Bob

[lunaalta]

Hello, I'm known here as lunaalta and I'm addicted to playing the guitar!
I've come up with many excuses for this need to play the guitar over the years, but the plain truth is I have been addicted to playing a guitar at least once a week (sometimes I do it up to every hour of the day) since I first heard the like of Django Rheinhardt Charlie Christian, Jimi Hendrix, etc, etc, starting some 45 years ago.

[Ripper]

Im sorry. golf is a nice walk spoiled.

[johan]

if guitar playing is like everything you don't make any money at and sometimes are lucky at, it's like a whole lotta thing in the world. they also have in common that they are both "hobby's of yours" hobby = no profit; no profit = no stakes.

why would you practice playing golf if you know you're not going to make any money at it? maybe out of natural competition... but the answer to the question why would you practice playing guitar if you wouldn't make any money at it is clearly of a very different nature:

you might produce some beautiful music. what that means you have to fill in yourself, you cannot just put it in the fixed hole that somebody else dug...