I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
I think you create your own hipness.
I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.