Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] re: was Sonny Jr now lust

["Splash" <celtiac@xxxxxxxxx>]

GEAR AQUISITION SYNDROME


What good is a dream if it doesn't come true?
PEACE
Scott    
Believe in Magic!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: EGS1217@xxxxxxx 
  To: jdeall@xxxxxxxxxxx 
  Cc: celtiac@xxxxxxxxx ; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:48 PM
  Subject: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] re: was Sonny Jr now lust


  hey ...wait a minute. i thought GAS stood for 'guitar acquisition syndrome'....ergo HAS would be 'harmonica acquisition syndrome'..congas CAS...and so on.

  ...now you guys have me completely befuddled by using it for melody makers and amps! (though that last one would make an interestingly pronounced acronym)  ;)

  Elizabeth

  P.S. $90,000!  Holy $***!!  That's beyond sanity, as is even $640 for a used (by anyone) diatonic...let alone $12 grand.

  I have a guitar looks just like that one gathering dust in my music room, Scott.  Only it doesn't say 'fender'. However, in every other detail (shape, colour, style), it's identical.  It was given to me at the end of the 60's by a TV Producer I knew who realized I was a poor kid, and who had just gotten a brand new one for his wife's birthday.  He gave me both of her old electric guitars.  I never owned an amp nor had any clue about playing them, so they've sat unused all these years. Gave one away last year on Freecycle to a mother whose kid was taking up guitar, and still have one left.  Hey, that proves the provenance, doesn't it?  Of course he was fairly old then so I'm sure they're both long gone but at least one of their two sons was still making commercials in New York, last I'd heard. Somehow, though... I doubt it'll make me rich ;)



  Message: 11
  Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:59:10 +0000
  From: jdeall@xxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: [Harp-L] re: was Sonny Jr now lust
  To: "Splash" <celtiac@xxxxxxxxx>, <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
  Message-ID:
      <072920082159.19442.488F92AE00037BBB00004BF2221556126404040E0A0B06@xxxxxxxxxxx>
      

  For real cool GAS check out these amps.

  http://www.arkamps.com/


  -------------- Original message ----------------------
  From: "Splash" <celtiac@xxxxxxxxx>
  > I don't lust after gear.  I might have GAS from time-to-time, and this one
  > certainly caught my attention.
  > 
  > http://www.jacksonsrareguitars.com/fender-stratocaster-1959-slab-board.html
  > 
  > HOWEVER, someone else apparently ponied up the almost $90K before I could
  > mortgage the house and send the cashier's cheque.  I guess I'll have to just
  > keep working on making a natural relic out of my 54 Reissue by playing it to
  > death.
  > 
  > Anyway, I have what, to my ears, is a pretty good 60's vintage 4x10
  > hand-wired combo with 2x6L6's.  Also a number of smaller vintage hand-wired
  > amps from the 60's which sound real nice (to my ears).  a half-dozen or so
  > pro quality bullets, both Astatic and Shure variants (and several other
  > shells waiting for the right cartridges),  and a bunch of stick mics.  All
  > work just fine thank you.
  > 
  > And not too long ago I acquired a brand spanking new - in the box - Pre-war
  > Marine Band in C.  Never been played till I got it.  Mebbe tooted on once or
  > twice - toot, but not played.  Pure mint.  Wondering how to go about
  > tweaking it for maximum performance without swapping combs and otherwise
  > making it a hybrid.  It just might be my harp of a lifetime.
  > 
  > Now GAS ??  Oh yeah.  I got it.
  > 
  > I have GAS for a nice early 60's Melody Maker.  Single cut preferably, but
  > will look at a double - no trem.  Bastards welcome cuz I plan to put a pair
  > of mini-buckers in it anyway.
  > 
  > And I just bought a set of congas.
  > 
  > B'urp  Fffft!
  > 
  > "quote: some harmonica players would rather go to that place than mess with
  > gear."
  > and being stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is the Blues way to die,
  > too.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > What good is a dream if it doesn't come true?
  > PEACE
  > Scott
  > Believe in Magic!
  > 
  > _______________________________________________





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