I'm not taking money from you guys, but I do appreciate the offers.
i'm still going to try to make it.
Basically the long version of the story is I had a gig in Atlanta the other week with the chick singer I occasionally play with, and she was having issues with her acoustic, so we went to a random Guitar Center on the way to the gig, and they had a used Steve Lukather Music Man guitar, which I've been lusting after for the last 5 or 6 years. In years of looking I'd never seen a used one, since the only people who buy that kind of stuff are either huge fans like myself or collectors...they're about $1,500 new, and they wanted $800 for the used one. So despite my best attempts at financial planning for the move to Nashville and the cushion i was hoping to have for a bit to find a job and whatnot, the transaction was pretty much complete within about 5 minutes of me walking into the store and seeing it on the wall. So, on the upside, I have
this sitting next to me right now, but it kind of threw some other plans into jeopardy. If no one here needs the ticket, i'm just gonna suck it up and go, I think (thank you, Bruce

) but I figured at least making a half-hearted attempt would be the
responsible thing to do, in lieu of very un-responsible guitar shopping.
On the other hand...the guitar sounds like pure sex in musical form. Totally worth the financial hardship. And it's puuurty.
http://www.marcosfogli.com/images/Luke.jpg