Endless Paradigm

Okay so for starters i have two guitars, Fender's, a white Squier Strat, and a black Squier Strat. I bought the black one for 230$ @ Guitar Center in San Marcos. The second one i got from a friend who found it in the apartment he moved into. I'm not a patient person so i never learned much, mostly because I never really picked it up to try. Recently i tried to sell both of them on craigslist.org, i got some phony-donkey offers like some guy that's gonna send his horses to pick it up after its shipped to his province in Canada... I clearly posted that the items posted are for local pickup & cash only, so i got a whole bunch of stupid offers like the one above. i kinda give up because my next option is to sell them at a pawn shop or back to guitar center, and neither are gonna give me a fair sum of money. So I decided to keep them and try to learn again, i have come across some problems with learning, and that is that i always want to learn Über-hard riffs or solos like:
Source: YouTube

or
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so as you can see I'm pretty ambitious. The first part is to learn the basics so that's what I'm gonna do. But the problem is my guitars don't sound the way I want them to sound, something a technician can easily fix. I have no idea where to find a guitar tech around my area, its almost as if they don't exist, the other option is to get myself a nicer guitar and a nicer amp. I want to get a Epiphone Les Paul, they run at about 300-500$ that is around the same price range as a PS3, I want both :P but i prolly won't manage both for awhile and I have to choose one because MGO & MGS4 are coming out soon. What do you guys think I should do?

ps3

mgs4


need i say nore?



edit1: local pick up? how much are you asking for the black strat?

Are you daft, boy?! THIS IS METAL GEAR SOLID 4 WEE'RE TALKING ABOUT!!! I say you get a PS3 with UT3 right now, then reserve MGS4. MGO is gonna come with MGS4 in starter-pack form, and it can probably be turned into the full game through online downloads. Basically, just get a PS3, dammit.

Also, it seems like you live pretty close to where I used to live. I used to go to that Guitar Center all the time. My house was about a 15-minute drive up I-15, counting stoplights and such.

ahh i used to work right by there....


go fudge yourself San Diego- Ron Burgendy

lol yeah i member shady you said you worked in sd painting right?
and metal gear you said you lived in san marcos too one time, cool
anyways i was gonna go with metal gear since its pretty much my life next to doing nothing :he:

Metal Gear Solid=EPIC FUCKING WIN

And I didn't live in San Marcos, I lived a bit south of there, in Rancho Bernardo, near Escondido. All my friends lived in San Marcos, though.

metalgear08 Wrote:Metal Gear Solid=EPIC FUCKING WIN

And I didn't live in San Marcos, I lived a bit south of there, in Rancho Bernardo, near Escondido. All my friends lived in San Marcos, though.

oh yeah when the fires happened wee talked about it huh

beaner2k6 Wrote:oh yeah when the fires happened wee talked about it huh

Yep. I don't live there anymore, now I live in Utah. Going from CA to UT is a BIG CHANGE.

explain please i'd like to know more about this "change"

Three words: Snow in November.
One (or more) word: Mountains (IN MY FREAKING BACKYARD)
One more word: Mormons.