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| I was curious if some of you guy's have any interesting old guitars you owned at one time or another or even just the guitars you wish you did not let go through the years. I'll bet we have some real early and priceless strat's & les pauls in this bunch!.............perhaps some famous musicians previous owners?
I have a short list to get it going.
---A beautiful 4080 Double Neck Rickenbacker in Azureglo Blue. Second month of manufacture back in 1975 if I remember right. This would be my best collectors piece I have ever owned to date.
It was not practical for me to own, it was a total crowd stopper but I just could not afford to own it as the value was to high and I was scarred to use it. I like to play my guitars all the time.
---Rickenbacker 4001 Jetglo, 1977, this is one I could be using right now. Unlike the double neck, which I will never find again, I might replace this bass someday. It was the best sounding and playing bass I ever put my hands on. I am sick about how much these are going for now. they have doubled in price in 5 years apparently.
---Custom made Hammer Jack Blades 8 string bass in tiger maple blue. Al did this one for me. amazing piece of hardware. Monetary needs forced this sale. Will never get to own one of these again, that was a total luxury purchase for me. It was money not spent at the right time.
Anyway there's a few to get this going. I have many more sales but these really stick with me and I think about them all the time.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | '72 sunburst Rick 4001
'68 Ampeg Lucite Dan Armstrong Bass
'74 Custom built Fender Jazz
'73 Gibson SG
All stolen from me back in '85.
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Location: south east Michigan | A natural wood topped Ovation Millenium.
It was right there on the wall.
Right there.
Before I realized that what I really wanted was a high end guitar, it was gone.
Right.... there
Insert a Charlie Brown "sigh" right here. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | My Very First Guitar , an EKO callassical , given to me by my Mom , it " disappeared " from their house...I still think of it..
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | i gave away a new 90 collectors, took 16 years to find another one and a whole lot more money to have john and kim restore it.
grafitti yellow 89 strat plus, new. gave it away.
ibanez jem, yes, new, with the dessert sun yellow paint and all the neon colors, disappearing pyramid inlays...got it for 799 new. gave it away. those stupid things are worth about 4 times that now.
2 really nice 1718 elites, one natural, one pearl white. still pissed about selling those.
After the 90 collectors was gone i made a deal with myself, i will not get seller's remorse again.
I have all kinds of stuff around here that's been bought and sold, but for some reason, guitars are the only thing i have remorse over.
I never thought, damn, i wish i still had that amp or that keyboard, even those old analog synths back in the day.
I think I just find the guitar the most expressive instrument, and some are pieces of art. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | ...Gibby ES330 that didn't get away, my brother has it. My Dad bought it new in '62 with meal tickets he saved during some of the 'canes and storms that hit that year. He paid $230. That was my teething git! It's still minty... I've yet to find another.
Just packed up my CB SB for an adoption trip to Italy. I already have 'sellers remorse'. It was a professional work horse for the previous owner and has that open 'experienced' sound. |
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Location: Jet City | I'll just do the first 2 that got away, but ended up better off anyway.
1. Ovation Preacher (traded for my UKII)
2. My 3rd guitar, a Gibson Explorer (1984?). It was on loan to a friend, and it was used as a weapon when he and his brothers got into an argument over a game of RISK. In place of the Explorer, I was given the Mosrite doubleneck eventually. Neither he nor I knew the value of it. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Uh.....all of them. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | to many. |
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| A 1758 Elite 12-string Factory-Blemished. It was perfect. I should have never sold it... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | A 1950's era ES-125T and Gibson amp with a killer tremolo from the same year . . . loaned to me by a truck-driving neighbor for 10 years from 1960 until 1970, then I gave it back to him when he wanted to sell both to me for something like a hundred dollars. He also had an original Les Paul sunburst from the same era that he offered to me, probably a '57-'59, but I preferred the ES-125 because I was just a kid and neck was thinner, plus the LP was so stinking heavy to hold. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Nope. Never had a guitar worth worrying about until recently. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | 1966 Gibson Firebird 12 string in Cardinal Red: less than 150 of this model made: very few in custom colors: (sigh)
1960 Gibson Les Paul/SG Standard: mint w/tags; bought and sold within 24 hrs: made a grand but worth 10 times that now (sigh)
several others: 1967 Rick 366 6/12 w/Converter, mint...; 1959 Gibson Les Paul Jr.; 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special; 1969 Martin D-28 Brz RW; (double sigh)
BUT: I have a few nice one's now so memories are OK |
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Location: europe | i still own both basses: hamer 8 string bass B8S 4 digit serial number from 1979 (one of the earliest hamer 8string basses), cherry translucent and a hamer 4 string bass B4S custom ordered and owned by howie epstein, bassplayer of tom petty and the heartbreakers (sadly passed away some years ago) goldsparkle.
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by stephent28:
All stolen from me back in '85.
It's one of the reasons I got disgusted with things and stopped playing for almost 20 years. My reason for quitting for nearly 20 yrs was pretty stupid, too. The magic of the memories of Ovations is partly to credit for me regaining some sanity after all that time. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | The one I most regret losing was a 1961 Les Paul Jr., one of only four white ones made that year. Even back in 1975 it was worth a lot of money, which I'm sure was why someone stole it. (I hope there's a special hell for people who steal guitars.) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I think there is. Isn't it just north of you in Canada? |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Perhaps. I was thinking more in terms of a roomful of accordians playing "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" for eternity. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | My reason for quitting for 20 years is that I was too busy working and raising kids. At least that's what it seems like now. Once the kids left it seems like I have a ton of time. |
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Location: Utah | For me, playing now is an excuse and opportunity to spend time with the kids. The reason for quitting had to do with a fiance and another guitarist. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | est tu , Flysig ?..
Vic
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Unfortunately, my kids waited till they left home to play guitar. Otherwise, I might have amassed quite a collection to share with them. |
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Location: CA | First electric guitar I ever bought was a well-used '62 Stratocaster with a blonde neck and sunburst finish. I paid $100 in about 1968 for it, including the tweed case. I sold it about 5 years later (and thought I made a killing) for $150.
The very first time I ever got in eBay, I doodled around to '62 Stratocaster and found one — admittedly in like-new condition — up around $8,000 in the bidding. Luckily the paramedics made it in time to restart my heart. |
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Location: europe | ´55 custom
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The guitars that got away
