What piece of gear was "the one that got away"?

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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For me it was one of these:

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I had a 100 watt Silver Jubilee Marshall halfstack that was my first real amp....I bought if for $1200 new at the Guitar Center in Santa Ana when I was 16. I worked making pizza for a year to afford it. In 1992 or so I sold the head for $1000 and bought a Mesa Studio preamp rack system. I still have the 4x12 slant cabinet that goes with it at Premier. :annoyed:
 
An SG-shaped LP Jr a guy had listed in the newspaper classifieds (remember those?) when I was like 15. I bought it for about $225 I think and sold it for $400 a few years later when I needed rent money. I should've lived in my car to keep that thing, it was summertime. :(
 
For me it was a Marshall MKII 50w amp..one of the first with a Master Volume. It had the PERFECT Schenker tone. I sold it 'cos I thought I needed a 100w amp, which of course, sounded like shit at manageable volumes. :facepalm:
 
I havent really sold a lot of gear, only one guitar and a couple of amp, I do miss my squier and peavey bandit though

also...yeh I would absolutely love one of the silver jubilee heads :facepalm:
 
Took my Fender Musicmaster Bass amp in 1987 to the landfill and threw it in myself because I was tired of it not being loud enough with my bass.

I wish I had that thing today.
 
1963 Telecaster custom in candy apple red/creme binding. Really a great guitar. I got it from a friend on my dad for next to nothing, replaced one vintage tuner that was broken (from an old parts bucket at a local shop) and was off to the races. Played that guitar for several years, and it was a really nice instrument. I wasn't so happy that it looked kind of junky, with crazed paint, chips all over the place, some yellowing of parts, etc, so I traded it in on a a jackson soloist after a few years. I think I got like 200 bucks trade in value for it, but no one wanted old guitars like this back then. SRV hadn't show up yet, so relic guitars were just old. I still miss that guitar and wish I had it.
 
I've never sold anything that I'd want back. :embarrassed:

There have been a few things that I wish I'd bought....

For example, a few years ago I really, really wanted either a Gibson LP R7 or R8. Called up Center City Music and asked about prices, and they quoted me something like $1900. At the time, those models were going for closer to $2900 at Musicians Fried. I damn near whipped out the credit card and ordered one, but thought better of going into that much debt for a guitar.

Now the new prices are so high that I doubt I'll ever own one.
 
Marshall 50W SS combo--my first amp I got when I was 14.
That thing sounded awesome.
 
Item 1) Early 70's Princeton that I bought used as a teenager. I traded it for a Champ II in the mid 80's because I liked the higher gain amp. Then I sold the Champ II a few years later.

Item 2) My original Big Muff PI from 1977. Sold it to my bass player after I bought my Mesa Boogie.

Item 3) Marshall Single 12" Extension Cab.

Sigh.....
 
The 2 pieces for me, would be the first Fender Lead II I bought back in 94 or so. I sold it when my wife was in grad school (for her masters), that thing was hands down the best playing guitar I have ever owned. i have bought 4 or 5 since trying to get it back, but none have measured up. The other piece would be a Mesa Mark I reissue I used in my last band. When I moved over to bass, I sold it to get a bass amp.
 
A couple I could mention...

But I'll settle on this one - the custom built Paragon MJ Acoustic I had a builder in Vancouver make for me (one man shop). It had a red cedar top and figured walnut back and sides. It was the best acoustic I have ever owned and among the top 5 I have ever played, and I have played literally hundreds of acoustics. I sold it to pay some bills and they did need to be paid. But I won't have the money for that kind of guitar again. When I ordered mine Rob (Paragon Guitars) was just starting out and had no 'rep' so his prices were really cheap for a custom acoustic. I think my total cost was $2300.00. The same exact guitar today would probably cost in the neighborhood of $5,500.00 to $6,000.00.

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I havent owned enough decent gear but I have thought about two guitars after selling them. The G&L Legacy HB I sold was one of the better sounding guitars I have played to date. Second only to my current Asat. But I never really just loved picking it up. It played well enough but didnt necessarily inspire me. The Tele I sold to Kerouac felt amazing and I loved to play that guitar but it never sounded as good to me as I wanted. Maybe I just needed to get better. I may beg for that one back one day.
 
Johnny N. said:
I havent owned enough decent gear but I have thought about two guitars after selling them. The G&L Legacy HB I sold was one of the better sounding guitars I have played to date. Second only to my current Asat. But I never really just loved picking it up. It played well enough but didnt necessarily inspire me. The Tele I sold to Kerouac felt amazing and I loved to play that guitar but it never sounded as good to me as I wanted. Maybe I just needed to get better. I may beg for that one back one day.
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If you ever really, really miss it I could part with it again. I'd just need to pick up a new Tele first. :embarrassed:
 
I have two:

1) Dean EVO Deluxe/Premium/Whatever. Can't remember the exact model, but it was the highest end non-USA production model, the one from the Czech Republic. Two zebra humbuckers that had push-pull taps and a really comfortable thin-C neck. My mum won it in a contest and it was my first electric guitar. I ended up trading it for a MIJ Strat w/the weird trems in college, because I wanted a whammy bar. The Strat trem ended up breaking, and I traded it for an Epiphone with a Khaler, which is currently in pieces. :( I still have my first acoustic and my first bass, but I'd love to have the first electric.

2) Fender Vibrochamp. It was a '68 or '69 IIRC. Was stolen by an ex-bandmate when I was in college. My dad got it for me for my 12th birthday and it had belonged to a friend of his before that. I'd love to have another one, but at today's prices that's not going to happen.
 
That's a sweet head, Mark.

For me, a Ric 430, looked just like this:

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This was back in the 80's when I (arguably) knew how to play guitar but nothing about set-up, maintenance, etc. I remember there was some prob with the guitar that bugged me, which today I might've been able to fix myself, or at least have the sense to take it into a tech. Instead I just sold it. The 400 line was Ric's budget bolt-on models, but still made in USA. One almost never sees them nowadays.

:(
 
Brian Krashpad said:
That's a sweet head, Mark.

For me, a Ric 430, looked just like this:

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This was back in the 80's when I (arguably) knew how to play guitar but nothing about set-up, maintenance, etc. I remember there was some prob with the guitar that bugged me, which today I might've been able to fix myself, or at least have the sense to take it into a tech. Instead I just sold it. The 400 line was Ric's budget bolt-on models, but still made in USA. One almost never sees them nowadays.

:(
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Reminds me of my frankenstrat I had with all Performance parts and pickups. And OFR.

It had a cold solder joint and my drunk ass was too stingy to buy a 4.00 sodering iron and solder. Got pissed off and parted it out in a drunken rage.Scattered the parts amongst "Friends".
 
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