bluefoxicy Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I'm 56 now and my wife and I have collected Antiques for 30+ years. Better than money in a bank! Antiques' date=' Amps, Guitars, etc. are all great investments. [/quote'] Get that stuff the hell away. It's bad enough you live in your biggest investment and if something happens to it you're penniless AND homeless; find somewhere else to keep half your **** in case you burn your house down, so in any case you only lose half of it. (Rich people with REALLY expensive stuff actually loan their crap to museums, which works extremely well...) That or invest in a flame/tornado/flood/earthquake proof storage facility under your house. Sad to hear about your earlier life troubles. I know a guy here that had some bad drug/alcohol addictions in his life, he now does counseling because he doesn't want anyone else to grow up like he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 First..."Vintage" is a marketing ploy! An "inticement" to buy a used guitar, for a ridiculous price! And, it's worked! "There's a sucker born every minute," or "One's man's junk is another man's treasure!" The real "Vintage" guitars are long gone, and commanding astronomical prices, when they are for sale. Way out of the price range of any, but the most well heeled "Rock Stars," or Venture Capitalists/Investors. The others are just nice, to completely "trashed" or...in the current lingo, "Relic'd" used guitars, that have a buzz word attached, to gain a heftier price tag. So, if you are of the "Well Heeled" variety, and can afford the REAL "Vintage" and collectable guitars, Go for it! I'll be most happy, with my regular, non-relic'd, new or slightly used quitar, thank you very much! ;>) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingfrets Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 First..."Vintage" is a marketing ploy! An "inticement" to buy a used guitar' date=' for a ridiculous price!And, it's worked! [/quote'] You got THAT right. I'm old enough to remember when these very same "vintage" guitars were thought of, and sold as "used" guitars. True, some sold for more than others, but "vintage" didn't mean "Holy Grail" back then. It meant "old." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubstar Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 "When The Beatles are long gone and the kids who grew up listening to rap/hip-hop come into their own, where are the vintage guitar buyers going to be?" lots of younger kids are into the beatles and guitar bands...and I don't mean metal, thrash, or punk...if anything, rap (which I am a longtime listener of, back to the 80s) will fade away long before the three chord 4 piece band song does...I personally listen to quite a bit of 20s and 30s music and jazz from the 40s and 50s... and I really don't think the beatles will ever be "long gone"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 A bit "off topic," but yeah..."Beatles" music, is truly "Classic Rock," in the best sense of the term. In, that every new generation, rediscovers their music, and loves it, as we did, growing up. And, quite often, the newer generation is just as determined to keep that music alive, as we have done, and as "Classical" music buffs, have done with that music, for centuries! Beatles music, will indeed, be around for a long, long time. Maybe different inturpretations, arrangements, but there...none the less. It just "feels" good, and always has! Lennon's Casino (and George & Pauls, too, to a lesser degree) has sold more of that guitar model, than any other endorsement (planned or not), could have hoped for, seems to me! Epi should be (and I'm sure, are) proud....and thankful, too! LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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