My Crafted in Japan RI Rosewood Tele...I sold it cause I was afraid to play it.

was my first & only,wife said it was damp smelling, i said no its the house,she said no its the amp,I said its the house,she said amp, I said hous see where I'm going here,in the end she said buy a new one, amp needed a bit of work anyway so in the end Dumped it without realizing what I was doing, got the AVT 100 ,great for a while,then you start hearing something change and why do I need all these frickin knobs anyway your saying to yourself, then the I want my baby back , went to another shop, amp story cropped up, the guy was practicaly begging me to take him to the dump said he refurbishes them , as I could tell by the amount of really old gear with really high price tags in the shop, geuss I'm just going to have to find a nicer amp, ...........just interested in others story's

thats a strange one bro

Some real sad storys hear guys, thinkin I should cancel this post before I get someone reaching for the valium

Obviously it's heresy to go on here about trading in a Tele for a Gibson, but one guitar I'll never be without is my 83 Strat. Btw I used to have an Epiphone Emperor, in the Joe Pass style like the ES 175: nice jazz/blues tones ... come to think of it, I quite miss that one too!

Part of me now understands that gear is simply tools and you need to keep the best and most modern tools to do the jobs right.

I do wish that I had back some of my older vinatge tools today though!

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Oh man, those are sweet axes.


I have a friend that has one, he isn't a player.The picture above isn't it, just from the web, but it looks like that. I have been trying to convince him to sell it to me for a couple years. he doesn't even have a sentimental attachment to it, he bought it somewhere with plans to learn how to play, but never followed through.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

I had a cheap 1x8 peavey amp when I was a little kid and sold it wish I hadnt done that

Yeah that's the one, only mine was older, I bought it second hand in 91, and it didn't have the Joe Pass signature. Sweet guitar unless you want to rock out, then all you get is howling feedback! You should try and get your friend to see sense! I got my Strat from a guy who'd been given it as a present to learn on and never bothered! Good price, too!

Man, some of you guys make me sick. Ya know, I thought at first I was the only one who has kept guitars and amps, and then it hit me. i have gotten rid of some gear, but I never missed it. I almost forgot. Anything I loved or had sentimental value is still with me.

It all started when I was 11 yrs old. My uncle gave me an acostic guitar. Now, I wish I still had it, but it fell apart. The bridge was lifting, so I put light guage electric strings on it. i let my brother borrow it to learn on, which he did. Then he loaned it to a friend, who wanted to do something nice for letting him borrow it. He put brand new acoustic strings on it for us. Well, that did it in, and pulled the bridge right off. So, no hard feelings.

Then my mother bought my first electric, which I still have. I will keep it forever. She bought a cheap battery powered amp for it, that sounded like a fart. it got mutilated, but not before she bought me a used 1982 Peavey Backstage, which I still have. I played that guitar and amp exclusively for 13 years, when I upgraded to a 2x12 crate combo in the early 90's. Then some dude sold me a Marshall 2x12 cab and two extra celestion 80 watt speakers for $75. I used an old bass head as a slave to the Marshall and powered it by the crate for a year or two. It sounded kinda cool. I traded that crate for an ADA MP-1 and ADA microtube 200 and used that to power the marshall cab and was in tone heaven. The ADA's got ugraded too.

Of all, this I do wish I still had the MP-1, the marshall 2x12 cab and the speakers. But I have an ADA Mp-2, a marshall 4x12 1960 AV and a mesa 50/50 now, and have had since the upgrade back in the mid 90's. Since these were all better than what I had, I never looked back and have no regrets. But if I have got rid of the guitar and peavey amp my mom bought, I would regret that.

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Guitars:
1. mid 70's Ventura MIJ Gibson l6-s clone (Pre-lawsuit) in Black with Rosewood FB and EMG 81 BR/ 85 Neck
2. ESP KH2 Neck Thru
3. 2008 Am Std Strat in 3 tone sunburst

Can we keep it Mom uh can we, can we
you can see why it catches the eye

Strange thing about the Epiphone Emperor is that I'm not bothered about it but my wife still goes on about how could I have got rid of the pretty guitar! That one incidentally made way for my Taylor acoustic. Out with the old and in with the new is my rationale. I can't afford the money or the space to keep shipping in new guitars. Now I'm down to three beauts and I plan to keep it that way.

I have bought guitars and amps in the past where the soul purpose was to repair and sell them. After getting a few done I thought about just keeping them but then there goes the purpose I bought in the first place, to make a few dollars. Sometimes you just got to let it go.

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Bottom line is, like MiamiMike says, they're tools, not people or pets, and you can pretty much replace anything anyway if you want to get an old guitar/amp back.

Some of this gear nostalgia is about signposting our pasts.

Guitars I never should have sold;
1979 Fender Musicmaster Black
1985 Gibson Les Paul Custom Silverburst w/ chrome hardware(Ow, that hurts to remember!)
1986 Dean Belaire Pink sunburst w/ Kahler
1974 Ibanez Custom Agent(with all the cool inlays and scroll headstock!)
1980 Ibanez Artist Cherry sunburst(with an awesome tiger maple top)
I feel sick, I think I am going to lie down now..........