The one that got away...

boycey

With all the gassing going on between us all at the moment (myself included:pac:) it got me thinking about all the guitars and amps I've had over the years. It actually took me a while to remember them all.
Anyway, are there any guitars you regret letting go over the years, and would you pay to have 'em back?

Ive only just sold an Orville Les Paul custom that I kept wanting to do up, new electrics and pickups etc. I think Im gonna miss that one in years to come. What would you like to have back?

Voodu Child

I had a THD Univalve amp a couple of years back. By jaysus if that wasnt one of the best amps ive had....just ridiculously sublime tone, cool boutique features, and amazing 'industrial' style build quality.

Real sorry I let that one go, but I guess i could pick another up some day. Actually it was a sin that people werent jumping all over it when I advertised it, just shows how unadventurous the average player is when it comes to gear. Fender, Vox, Marshall......yaaaaawn :rolleyes:

Anybody looking for an amazing, and also totally unique and quirky amp could do a lot worse than check one out. Awesome amps

punchdrunk

my tweed Bassman reissue that i put deadly valves ins :mad:

my 3 old rats that i should never have sold...

Dord

I don't regret anything that I've sold thankfully.

Gaspode

I had a Fender Precision USA bass for about 15 years that was my pride and joy (see pic below, and no sniggers from the cheap seats please, I loved that mullet!).
It was a tremendous bass and never let me down, just a good solid reliable instrument that didn't lose tune and took a lot of use & abuse in it's stride.

However, after putting a lot of time and effort into a band, writing our own stuff and playing lots of gigs, we were basically going nowhere, and the last straw was playing to an empty Baggot Inn one night.
I decided to pack in gigging that night, and get into computer music, so I headed off to town and traded my baby in for a synthesiser and a midi cable.

I've regretted it ever since, as I missed gigging fairly quickly, and hated Cubase, midi, and click tracks ever quicker!!

I dont sell musical equipment now without long long periods of contemplation!!

Sell in haste, repent at your leisure!!



PS that 4x12 in the picture is currently being chopped up to make 2 1x12 thiele cabs and a 2x12 (probably). The Laney head was loud but not great and I sold it and a 1x15 cab soon after I sold the bass. No regrets on those though!!

boycey

Des, I salute you. One of the greatest mullets of all time. Respect.

Squirrel

boycey wrote: »

Des, I salute you. One of the greatest mullets of all time. Respect.

I second that, that is a beastly mullet. What height were you then? The bass just looks massive.

I've only been playing about a year and a half so I've only sold my original beginners amp. No regrets on it since buying my Vox AD30

Dord

Jaysus that's a helluva mullet! :eek:

What year was the P?

Voodu Child

And the waiscoat matches the bass! Awesome! :pac:

A waistcoat wearing, mullet sporting bass player! Jaysis, you must have gotten some action back in the 80s :pac:

Dord

voodoo_child wrote: »

And the waiscoat matches the bass! Awesome! :pac:

A waistcoat wearing, mullet sporting bass player! Jaysis, you must have gotten some action back in the 80s :pac:

That was probably the 90's!

BostonB

I never had much stuff tbh. Probably the best thing I had was old 70's 2x12 Marshall , kinda like a bluesbreaker but with a full length reverb not a tremelo. I sold it for very little.

eoin5

At one stage I had Rachel (ricky 4003), Phoebe (jap fretless jazz), and Monica (aria pro II libra). I sold Monica and I do regret it but I guess you have to make space in rental accomodation when you have 6 guitars, 2 bass amps, an electronic drumkit, a keyboard, recording equipment and a miriad of bags and hard cases that take up acres.

I havent named an instrument since.

Gaspode

boycey wrote: »

Des, I salute you. One of the greatest mullets of all time. Respect.

Squirrel wrote: »

I second that, that is a beastly mullet. What height were you then? The bass just looks massive.

The same height as I am now, which is not much, about 5'6" (on a good day). Precisions are big mothers, and on a small guy they look huge alright!

Dord wrote: »

Jaysus that's a helluva mullet! :eek:

What year was the P?

I dont know tbh, I got it second hand around 1983-84, it was in great nick, so I'd say maybe late 70s?

voodoo_child wrote: »

And the waiscoat matches the bass! Awesome! :pac:

A waistcoat wearing, mullet sporting bass player! Jaysis, you must have gotten some action back in the 80s :pac:

And still am on the basis of that pic alone!
Pic taken around 93 methinks.

Doctor J

This may take a while... :pac:

Starting in 1989 and working up to present day, I hope this is all of them

Aria Pro II XRB I butchered this, refretted twice, three pickups, painted, learned a hell of a lot
Aria Pro II Laser Electric I later made one fretless out of the two Aria basses and then sold it
Aria Pro II Cat My first guitar, still have it but it's unplayable, I cannibalised the Kahler bridge off it to make the black strat
Rickenbacker 4003 Loved the tone, hated the lack of contours for the wrist, sold it to a friend, so I still see it and yearn for it, it was dead sexy looking
Jackson Kelly Loved the look, hated the feel, long gone
Ibanez SR3006E Prestige Great bass but I'm just not a 6 string player anymore. Sold it a couple of weeks ago
Fender Jazz 1977 Old != Good. Traded for a Sadowsky recently. Score!
Schecter C7 Blackjack Great guitar but realised I have a hard enough time with 6 strings
Ibanez S2120 Prestige With piezo double edge trem, beautifull put together but never had the tone magnetically nor useful enough piezoically
Fender Jazz 62RI fretless CIJ really nice but sold it cos I just wasn't using it enough
Edwards Flying V Very good guitar, just didn't like the Gibson scale, I like manly string tension
Gibson Flying V As above, sweet guitar, traded for a Fender Bassman
Fender AmSe Strat Great guitar but then the neck started to crack. They replaced it under warranty but it never felt nearly as good to me.
Lakland 55-02 Bought off ebay at an absurdly low price. Never really bonded with it for some reason and sold it on. Unquestionably a great bass though and I miss it

I think that's it.

Zangetsu

Didn't sell my one love, dropped her and she broke her neck, twas a sad day in music history. Her spirit lives on...

Her name was Angelica and she was about 50/60 years old but didn't look a day over 20. She had the most unique sound when rubbed the right way, brings a tear to my eye even thinking about her




I keep her head on my table for the day I can stitch her back together...

munkydanny

I miss my Ibanez Jem 7VWH.

Bought it back in 05, had intended to replicate Steve's "Flo" Jem. All it needed was a Fernandes sustainer p/up and a gold Lo Pro bridge. Then the same old story, funds got tight so I cracked under pressure and sold her. What a dumb ass thing to do! I feel like Morgan Freeman in Shawshank; "I wanna talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense into him.." :P

I guess it leaves the door open to buy a real deal 1987 model with the ebony fretboard and a standard Lo Pro.

Every cloud and all that.. :pac:

lavasoft

MIJ fender strat early 90s kept it for 12 years, it developed a 2 inch crack in the body at end of a very loud performance of voodoo chile:(

A historic series? gibson les paul special in a custom tv yellow and black burst, sold it for 3 times what I paid stupid greedy badtaid

Patricide

Godin radiator i waited 5 years to buy, literally it was in the music store in town for 5 years, i would play it every couple of weeks and i eventually bought the thing. Sold it when i dropped outta college to pay back me da. A sad day .

Darkstrike

Something Ive not had to do yet is sell one of my instruments, espically one that means a lot to me......

I feel for you guys that had to.