Back in my day...

There are 4 new Emerald guitar models that were recently announced.  One young guy (turns 30 next month) happened to get in on one before they were announced, due to him ordering a "being discontinued" (but nobody knew) line.  So, he got his new model X30 a couple days ago.  Very cool timing for him.

One of the other frequent posters mentioned that his young age would probably significantly lower the median age of the participants on that acoustic guitar forum.  The young guy's response was that it was "great to be accepted" and how he was maybe too young to get in on this carbon fiber stuff.

My response:

Smart to get in when you're young... you may not have to buy another guitar (other than desire). Whereas some of us geezers had to learn the hard way about humidifying our wood guitars. Plus, the wonderful ergonomics of your Emerald means you will be playing comfortably for decades... why, back in my day, we had to play hard, pointy guitars... not only did our fingers bleed, but we lived with contusions on our ribs and forearms. Yeah, you kids these days have it easy. And, guitars were heavy back then... we didn't have those fancy-schmancy padded gig bags... no, our cases were made out of heavy wood with that crappy covering that tore and scuffed... and, we liked it!

We didn't come waltzing into a gig with a guitar in one hand and a Bose PA in the other... no, we carried in amps that weighed as much your Prius, and hauled Voice of the Theater PA cabinets that would make a Sherpa cry "Uncle!"

"Carbon Fiber"??? If it existed, we didn't know about it. There was no interweb thingy where you could look stuff up... no, we had to go to the library... and walk 8 miles in the snow to get there... and the librarian lady would "Shussssshh!" us... and she had never heard of carbon fiber, plus she told us: "Get a haircut and get a real job, hippie!"

We didn't have wireless anything. If you wanted to make a phone call, you had to put money in the phone and have an operator connect you, 'cause that was too complicated for normal people to make a long distance call unassisted. If we wanted to show people what we had for lunch, we couldn't take a photo with our phones, 'cause all the phones were connected to a wall, and cameras used film, and you had to send it off to get it developed... no, you had to drag 'em back to the restaurant, or throw up on their shoes, to show 'em what you ate.

Umm... too far, again?

Yeah, you whippersnappers have it good. Now, get off my lawn!