Just posted a you tube video of my gear collection

[JaySwear]

just curious, what was the song?

that is one big awesome room, by the way!

 

[back2thefutre]

I hate you :icon_jokercolor:

 

[Cagey]

I hate you :icon_jokercolor:

Hehe! Don't be silly. As any student of psychology will tell you, love and hate are but two sides of the many-sided die known as anxiety. The other die is known as depression, which also has many sides.

Most humans have two of these​

So, when you say you "hate" somebody or something, you might inadvertenty be saying you love it. Usually, it's not very clear to you, but it is to everyone else. So, the best thing to do when you feel strongly about something is to say nothing at all. Also known as keeping your cards close to your vest, where nobody can see them and use that knowledge to take advantage of you <grin>

 

[Panthur]

As any student of psychology will tell you, love and hate are but two sides of the many-sided die known as anxiety. The other die is known as depression, which also has many sides.

Please tell me they're inside one of those popping dome things found in the middle of a frustration board.  :icon_biggrin:

 

[Cagey]

Frustration is on the "anxiety" die. And the pop-o-matic bubble is on your head...

Yer makin' me crazy!​

 

[bonepickerx]

Dont have one.

Want one? lol

How much?

 

[bonepickerx]

Ok. Time to make us the most crazy rig you can (you must use at least 6 different amps with different effects on each one).

GO.

A couple of my friends and I actually made up a few rigs and used a three banger to play them in stereo with the amps in different rooms of the house. Ever heard three vibe effects on three amps in Tri-Stereo, it can sound awesome!

Other than running stereo rigs and a bunch of effects at once I haven't done allot of experimentation. Does anyone make a 6 banger box. It would be cool to run one guitar into 6 rigs at once. May sound like poo  but would be fun. I set up the budda and the marshall in stereo once and it sounded nice. I ambuilding a 100 watt plexi right now so I may run both the JCM800 and the 100 watt plexi in stereo to see what I get. My 50 watt Plexi wont stand up to the 100 watt JCM 800.

 

[bonepickerx]

Dont have one.

Want one? lol

How much?

I do now.

Thanks

 

[Strat Avenger]

You have WAAY too much money!

Haven't heard that Brother Cain song in YEARS.

 

[OzziePete]

So what do they sound like when you daisy chain them all together?  

I think if he daisy chained them all up the lights in the suburb he lives in would go out! :toothy12:

That is some very impressive collection you have.

Have you thought of contacting studios around your locale and letting them know you have some vintage pedals for hire (so long as you go along & take the pedal home after the session) and in case a player might want to rent one or two for a session? Could earn some money to buy more? The list you would provide them would knock most guitar players off their chair...it would be like heaven to some.

Do you happen to have one of these distortion pedals....they are kinda as rare as hen's teeth..

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXG7nLr_xI&feature=related[/youtube]

 

[bonepickerx]

So what do they sound like when you daisy chain them all together?  

I think if he daisy chained them all up the lights in the suburb he lives in would go out! :toothy12:

That is some very impressive collection you have.

Have you thought of contacting studios around your locale and letting them know you have some vintage pedals for hire (so long as you go along & take the pedal home after the session) and in case a player might want to rent one or two for a session? Could earn some money to buy more? The list you would provide them would knock most guitar players off their chair...it would be like heaven to some.

Do you happen to have one of these distortion pedals....they are kinda as rare as hen's teeth..

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXG7nLr_xI&feature=related[/youtube]

No I don't Its a rare pedal but not hard to find or come by. They are typically on ebay 1-2 a month. They go for $500 and Up. There are a few versions out there. If I remember correctly they were manufactured by Color Sound, Marshall, Measto, and Dallas Arbeiter (not sure about Dallas Arbeiter). Its called a tone bender and they have a fuzzz tone if you push them too hard. Great pedal I'll get one one day. I do have a late 60's Maestro wedge "Fuzz Tone" which is very similar. The funny thing is Maestro was building allot of stuff for Gibson at the time. It has the original knobs on it which are the same amber knobs used on vintage Les Pauls. So the knobs on it are likly worth more than the pedal.

 

[OzziePete]

The Maestro pedal you mention was used by Keith Richard to great effect on the "Satisfaction" recording. I thought Jimmy's "Whole Lotta Love" tone was from  Roger Mayer, who he knew? :dontknow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzbox

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Whole_Lotta_Love

 

[bonepickerx]

You have WAAY too much money!

Haven't heard that Brother Cain song in YEARS.

Actually this is part of my retirement. It's an investment. I decided about 10 years ago rather than dumping all my money into the stock market which is wrought with fraud and greedy assholess and regulated by greedy politiicians I would rather have a diversified tangible investment. Forbes magazine did an article on vintage instruments a few years ago and concluded that vintage instruments were a great tangible investment with sound historicle high return rates and ranked fifth behind Platimum, Gold, Diamonds, and if I remember correctly vintage collectible automobiles. They used a late 50's telecaster as thier analysis example and it significantly out performed the stock market over time when considering initial purchase cost, broker fees and sale price when sold 40 or so years later. When I retire I plan to sell most of my collection. My son and daughters will get something if they want it. If I die prematurely then it will be donated to a museum. My wife will be fine with my insurance and doesn't need the hassel of trying to sell all of it on ebay or to some other "collector" who is going to low ball the price anyhow. I have serial numbers, pictures, and insurance on everything along with production dates and condition assessments. Yes I am anal. But that is really what collecting is all about. I also collect guns and coins. I also build guitars and all tube point to point guitar amplifiers in my "spare time". I have a couple of grammy winners who use my gear. I mostly build custom one off stuff and do pedal mods and repairs on the side in my "spare time". It's really not a question of how much money and more a decision of where to put the money I have to invest in retirement. It is still a risk. The vintage guitar market took a beating a few months ago and has slowly started to recover. The guys who were paying $450k for vintage Les Pauls are really sweating it. However, It's no more risky than the stock market and allot more fun. I still have traditional investments but why put all your eggs in one basket. I am not rich just an Ohio hillbilly that took advantage of every oppurtunity he got.

 

[bonepickerx]

The Maestro pedal you mention was used by Keith Richard to great effect on the "Satisfaction" recording. I thought Jimmy's "Whole Lotta Love" tone was from  Roger Mayer, who he knew? :dontknow:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzbox

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Whole_Lotta_Love

Very possibly it was. Roger Mayer built some great stuff. The thing is in the years that effects started to get off the ground very few resources were available to build guitar effects. And even then allot of things were copied. So even though the manufacturer was different the guts are comparable. Things in the guitar effect industry didn't really take off till the late 70's. It's funny when i was a kid everybody made fun of Japanese built electronics. Now people covet the BOSS and Ibanez stuff that people laughed at when it hit the US shores. Remember Marshall amplifiers were based on fender bassmens and leo Fender built his amps using schematics directly taken from tube receiving manuals engineered by the tube manufacturers. Very little in the music industry is "original" every body copies something from everyone!

 

[elfro89]

haha, that reminds me of this guy...  :icon_biggrin:  :icon_jokercolor:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvRDC-mGmg

 

[JaySwear]

i love how malmsteen just literally has all these vintage collectable guitars piled up in a corner somewhere :sad:

 

[Cagey]

Apparently, they're getting turned into "relics" whether they want to be or not. I mean, stashed like that, just dragging one out/putting it back is going to do a certain amount of damage.

Of course, you get a guy like Yngwie, and he probably doesn't care. I'm sure he can play anything without making any excuses, and the value of the things probably doesn't mean nearly as much to him as the tone or utility of them. I'm sure SRV was that way, and that's why his guitar looked like it had been through a war. No need to show off, just play the damned thing or STFU. It's kinda admirable, in a way, and I'm sure is part of the reason so many guys do the poser thing, trying to make a guitar look as though it's been loved or slaved over when it was actually just born yesterday and knows nothing/has no history. The poser hopes to present an image (s)he hasn't earned. "Look at me! I played the hell out of this thing!" Yeah. In your dreams. You can see the toupee a mile away.

 

[bonepickerx]

Malmsteen just thourghly demonstrated the difference between a musician and a collector. I work on musicians gear and everything is utilitarian. A players guitar is always grimey and in need of some sort of repair, Their amps are just totally abused and pedals look like they were run over by a tank. I worked on a bunch of tweed amps that the guy who used to play for Tina Turner brought to my old shop in New Mexico for repair, One, a tweed vibrolux was literally sitting sideways because the cabinet was so abused that the finger joints were no longer tight enough to keep the square form of the amp. I asked him if he wanted it repaired and he said all he wanted was a tube job and to go over the amp and make sure it sounded good and was ready to play, it would barely sit up. He didn't want to spend the money to glue it back up, the tweed was nearly warn off the amp. The funny thing is he had a 57 strat that was thrashed as well. He pulled up in a decked out hummer dressed to the nines and was obviously doing well but wouldn't pay $50 bucks to fix the cab on a classic amp. Amazing. It reinforces your point Cagey gear is simply tools to musicians and utilitarian is best because of low failure rates.

 

[Strat Avenger]

You have WAAY too much money!

Haven't heard that Brother Cain song in YEARS.

Actually this is part of my retirement. It's an investment. I decided about 10 years ago rather than dumping all my money into the stock market which is wrought with fraud and greedy assss and regulated by greedy politiicians I would rather have a diversified tangible investment. Forbes magazine did an article on vintage instruments a few years ago and concluded that vintage instruments were a great tangible investment with sound historicle high return rates and ranked fifth behind Platimum, Gold, Diamonds, and if I remember correctly vintage collectible automobiles. They used a late 50's telecaster as thier analysis example and it significantly out performed the stock market over time when considering initial purchase cost, broker fees and sale price when sold 40 or so years later. When I retire I plan to sell most of my collection. My son and daughters will get something if they want it. If I die prematurely then it will be donated to a museum. My wife will be fine with my insurance and doesn't need the hassel of trying to sell all of it on ebay or to some other "collector" who is going to low ball the price anyhow. I have serial numbers, pictures, and insurance on everything along with production dates and condition assessments. Yes I am anal. But that is really what collecting is all about. I also collect guns and coins. I also build guitars and all tube point to point guitar amplifiers in my "spare time". I have a couple of grammy winners who use my gear. I mostly build custom one off stuff and do pedal mods and repairs on the side in my "spare time". It's really not a question of how much money and more a decision of where to put the money I have to invest in retirement. It is still a risk. The vintage guitar market took a beating a few months ago and has slowly started to recover. The guys who were paying $450k for vintage Les Pauls are really sweating it. However, It's no more risky than the stock market and allot more fun. I still have traditional investments but why put all your eggs in one basket. I am not rich just an Ohio hillbilly that took advantage of every oppurtunity he got.

Well, I trust you have a good Insurance policy.   

 

[bonepickerx]

Yea I do but I had to jump through hoops to get it. Its a replacement value policy.  :blob7: