bagman67
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Lately there have been great threads on first amps and first electric guitars. How about the piece of gear you no longer have, and look back on with sincere fondness and regret for having let it go?
My two biggies:
1. I once owned a gorgeous Yamaha SA2100 semi-hollow, blonde with gold appointments, loud as hell, silky smooth, and far more guitar than I could really make the most of at my stage of development then. I had it for about 4 years and then ultimately sold it so I could pay tuition without taking out a loan. I miss that guitar. A lot. I bought it used for $500 in 1989 - a pretty good deal for the time - and they're going for four or five times that now. I'll likely never own another unless I win a lottery. Here's a photo from Reverb, including the teddy-bear-brown-lined case.
No. 2. is the Yamaha T50C amp I got when I graduated from college (see above for how I paid for school). Some of you will recall this was a sort of poor-man's Soldano combo. Mike Soldano designed these amps for Yamaha in 1989 or 90, probably to get some capital to roll into his own boutique amp business. It was my first tube amp and I just loved that thing. This was the amp that taught me how to play the amp as an instrument instead of just a noisemaker.
When Marriage 1.0 went south, I had to sell a bunch of gear, including this amp, to keep the light on - and the attempts I have made to replace it have been unsatisfactory. I got another T50C a few years later that just didn't have the same guts; sold it after two years and got a T100C that was (a) too damn heavy and (b) too damn loud; and now I'm bereft. There's a dark part of my brain where I fantasize about paying someone (Hi, @mayfly !) to build one from its schematic, which is available online. But that's still a lot of shekels, and I'm still raising a family. Sigh.
Let's hear your tales of woe and longing. Photos appreciated.
Bagman
My two biggies:
1. I once owned a gorgeous Yamaha SA2100 semi-hollow, blonde with gold appointments, loud as hell, silky smooth, and far more guitar than I could really make the most of at my stage of development then. I had it for about 4 years and then ultimately sold it so I could pay tuition without taking out a loan. I miss that guitar. A lot. I bought it used for $500 in 1989 - a pretty good deal for the time - and they're going for four or five times that now. I'll likely never own another unless I win a lottery. Here's a photo from Reverb, including the teddy-bear-brown-lined case.
No. 2. is the Yamaha T50C amp I got when I graduated from college (see above for how I paid for school). Some of you will recall this was a sort of poor-man's Soldano combo. Mike Soldano designed these amps for Yamaha in 1989 or 90, probably to get some capital to roll into his own boutique amp business. It was my first tube amp and I just loved that thing. This was the amp that taught me how to play the amp as an instrument instead of just a noisemaker.
When Marriage 1.0 went south, I had to sell a bunch of gear, including this amp, to keep the light on - and the attempts I have made to replace it have been unsatisfactory. I got another T50C a few years later that just didn't have the same guts; sold it after two years and got a T100C that was (a) too damn heavy and (b) too damn loud; and now I'm bereft. There's a dark part of my brain where I fantasize about paying someone (Hi, @mayfly !) to build one from its schematic, which is available online. But that's still a lot of shekels, and I'm still raising a family. Sigh.
Let's hear your tales of woe and longing. Photos appreciated.
Bagman