Longest you've been away from your board...

[tuffteef]

bout 5 months

i sold everything except my space echo to go on holiday around asia

it was worth it

[Jwar]

Well I once stopped playing bass for around 5 years...............so that long?

[Fuzz_Pi]

The month I was in the Netherlands was the longest I've ever been away from anything remotely musical altogether.

As for my board, since I got my first pedal, I've not touched an electric instrument without them boxes

For you--and anyone else who's gone this long without playing anything musical--what was it like returning to it after the break? Was your playing/attitude/anything different?

I definitely felt a surge of creativity, kinda rusty in the fingers, but felt an almost 3rd person appreciation of my own playing that I never have

[OddKnowledge]

I spent only a month out of the country away from my gear, years ago, and that was enough withdrawal time for me to draw this.

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[coldbrightsunlight]

Spent 7 weeks travelling a couple of summers ago. Around week 6 I bought a shitty toy guitar on the street because I just couldn't stand not playing anymore. That thing is TERRIBLE. I still have it and plan to fit a pickup some day. 6 weeks without guitar was craaaazy, I feel a longing before the end of a single week.

[kralc]

I spent only a month out of the country away from my gear, years ago, and that was enough withdrawal time for me to draw this.

missyou.jpg

Is that a cello bow? Or someone trying to bend a penis in half with a rubber band?

[OddKnowledge]

LOL! its for the talking drum.

[BitchPudding]

I was in Mexico for a week last December. Nothing musical around at all. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. Was fun for other reasons tho.

[greyscales]

Went without an amp and pedalboard one summer in DC, then the next summer without any guitar.
I was pretty productive after. So much inspiration came after listening to more music than usual over months. Granted, a lot of it went nowhere but I really loved guitar once I had one again.

That said, I don't really want to go without again.

[kralc]

LOL! its for the talking drum.

I did not see that there.

Guess I see what I want to see...

[rustywire]

About 1 week....in June of this year when I had poison ivy rash all over both forearms. It was a grueling 10 day streak of discomfort...