I have bought and sold dozens of instruments over the years, but the following are the few I should have kept:
1978 Gold on Black Gibson Les Paul Custom
1972 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Gold Top
1964 Fender P Bass
Early Fender Jaguar
And the one that got away....... years ago I was playing bass for Louie B. and he offerred to sell me the 1963 ES 330 dot that he was playing at the time for $300, but I passed!
P MAC wrote:I have bought and sold dozens of instruments over the years, but the following are the few I should have kept:
1978 Gold on Black Gibson Les Paul Custom
1972 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Gold Top
1964 Fender P Bass
Early Fender Jaguar
And the one that got away....... years ago I was playing bass for Louie B. and he offerred to sell me the 1963 ES 330 dot that he was playing at the time for $300, but I passed!
P MAC wrote:I have bought and sold dozens of instruments over the years, but the following are the few I should have kept:
1978 Gold on Black Gibson Les Paul Custom
1972 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Gold Top
1964 Fender P Bass
Early Fender Jaguar
And the one that got away....... years ago I was playing bass for Louie B. and he offerred to sell me the 1963 ES 330 dot that he was playing at the time for $300, but I passed!
1976 Blonde Fender Mustang Bass.. I really loved this guitar. We found one on E-bay the same year only chocolate It had some bumps but Dick made it look just like new. I treasure this one.
In the last 22 years I've owned over 45 stringed instruments, Guitars, basses, acoustic,electric, mandolins, resonators, and at any givin time I kick myself in the ass for getting rid of every one of them. I most recently got rid of an Epiphone LP that I loved but just didn't have time to play. At least I know it's in good hands. I vow to "Never " sell another piece of music equipment again! Even if I have to buy a second house for storage!
30 watt Marshall Artiste 3203 with 4x10 cab. It really just needed re-tubed, but I needed beer money even worse. I kick myself in the ass every single day over that move. I don't even know if the amp was particularly valuable, but it sure had an awesome distorted channel. I'd love to play that amp live now. *sighs*
"well, why don't you make ten louder and just have that be the loudest one?"
A bunch of Paiste cymbals that I broke or sold. Red Colorsounds, Blue Colorsounds, some old pre blue label 602's that are going for top dollar on ebay now, 4 Signature Crashes, Signature Hi Hats, Signature Splash, Sound Formula Reflector Hi Hats.
Dean 6 string quilted maple bass, Carvin 4 x 10" w/horn bass cab, Marshall 2 x 15" bass cab, Ibanez SR1200 (rare Soundgear) 5 piece neck thru, birdseye maple top bass.
Birdseye maple top Songbird acoustic guitar, Carvin 8 channel powed mixer.
For me, it's a toss-up between the Vox Super Beatle amp I bought new in 1966 and a blond Fender Bandmaster (circa 1964 that had unreal amounts of gain for an amp of that era! Those were the days....
my GK guitar amp. It was a combo amp the size of a lunch box, but it was so loud you couldnt stand next to it. it cost me $75 and was worth hundreds. The amp blew out on me about a year after i got it.
The script was written, and the villian was cast. The provocation needed, they will provide. They did it before, they'll do it again.
I had a Red Snakeskin 2x10 Fender Prosonic combo. It was one of the very rare early production custom shop models. A beautiful amplifier in form and function. There are many times I still think about it's clean tone. Probably the best I've ever heard. I sold it because it didn't have a separate EQ for the clean and dirty channels, and I've regretted it ever since. I've since bought a prosonic head. It sounds good, but it just isn't the same (and doesn't have the killer reverb)!
The shitty Sheffield speakers went & I sold it . If I knew then what I know now, I would have just swapped them out for the incredible awesomeness that is a pair of Celestion V30s.
Right now I'm really wanting another one (or a head/mesa 4x12), or a Mesa F100.
Happiness is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.