any you slutz shed a tear over some gear?

[conguero]

I sold my royer 121 to buy a u87. I love the U87 but I wish I could have both.

[PoorGlory]

I've traded away guitar after guitar for different guitars. Theres quite a few I wish I never got rid of.

[soupking]

I can tell you that the money that I've made from selling gear has all gone to the man. It hasn't escalated my studio thus far.


And yes, it sucks.

[Vandergraf]

I shed a tear everytime I think about my dad's beautiful 1959 sunburst strat, that he sold for $100.00 during hard times in the 70's. . . (sniff) or his Martin D-28 that is long gone.

[Stratgirl]

I sold my 1965 Fender Strat to pay for law school. dumb, dumb, stupid, dumb.

[GregoryC]

Originally Posted by mic anon

I was just thinking about when i had to pawn my keyboard (i long since got it back)
I came within 24 hours of losing it!
I remember at my Job at the time trying to hold back the tears acting like something was in my eye.
I guess you don't really know how much you value your craft until its ripped a way from you.

Just wondering if I'm alone on this one.

1936 Martin destroyed by Katrina...oh well...the string were old anyway! LOL

[warhead]

I'm very slow to move gear that I'm thinking doesn't belong anymore, if you wait you may fall in love with a piece all over again.

War

[Unclenny]

Just sold my Pod Pro to help finance new converters.

Tears of Joy!!!

[ScottTunes]

...shoulda, woulda, coulda...

I missed some of the gear I used to have so much, I bought the exact same things again years later. Then I find that since it wasn't "really" mine from whenever, there was no magic.

If I'd known then what I know now... I woulda gotten a "real job" so I coulda kept the original goods!

[mic anon]

Originally Posted by tifftunes

If I'd known then what I know now... I woulda gotten a "real job" so I coulda kept the original goods!

Amen

[Daniel Antix]

i haven't parted with anyhting that i love... hope i never have to.

[Stitch333]

I cried the first time I got to record vocals with a C800g, neve-pre and a Fairchild 670...it was just so goddamn beautiful...

[Sugarnutz]

Two of my three cherished pairs of KEF Corelli speakers had the cabinets damaged by smoke and water in our house fire 2 years ago. The one pair that survived was still in the shipping cartons inder a cabinet since I just bought them from Ebay ($29 BIN), saved the drivers out of the others, can't have to many spares for these things. The first pair I ever had blew a bass driver when a second hand high dollar amplifier I had just gotten decided to lunch a channel with 60 hz on 11 and took me 6 months to find a proper replacement driver.

[PlugHead]

I have one helluva time offloading ANYTHING that has to do with music or production.

However, I stupidly LOANED a late 1920's Ludwig bass drum (marching style) to a drummer friend while we were in university - he moved out of town before I ever got it back.

The only other time was after graduating (yes, University, but a different one!?!) I didn't have the room to move my Fender Rhodes (Mark1) back across the country, and sold it to a friend for $100 (1990). That one hurt, but fast forward 15 years, and I land another one (Mark II - in MINT condition!!!) for the EXACT SAME PRICE!!! It makes me feel what comes around goes around...

I've had many a tear shed over damages incurred on various instruments I own, but luckily each and every time have been able to be fixed/refinished well enough that when I got them back they were like new again...

Great topic!!! thumbsup

[bitman]

Almost.

I fell on hard times last October and had to sell an 80s Les Paul Custom.
I needed to make the mortgage on my home and studio which is 1800.00
I got 1900.00 for it at musicgoround. I was so happy to be able to stay in my little Rocky Mountain home that my tears were shed in thankfullness to my God for the timely transaction.

I'm still here and the studio kept on makin money as well as my day business.

:Ron

[Exsanguis]

I had to sell one of my two pre-lawsuit Ibanez Flying V's to pay rent a few years ago. Every single time I play the one I kept, I think about how awesome it would be to still have the other one. Haven't cried about it yet, but I've been close more than a few times

[Jules]

any you slutz shed a tear over some gear?

- No

[mxeryus]

Originally Posted by Jules

any you slutz shed a tear over some gear?

- No

Aha, and you consider yourself a gearslut ?

[harry_seldon]

One of the very oldest Les Paul Studio in pearl white with silver hardware. just a wonderful guitar, and I sold it. It had a great tone. Not as heavy handed as my Les Paul Standard.

[vizcities]

My first Strat - a Just Fine Mexican one, but it was a gift from my dad and stolen from my apartment while I was on X-mas break. I'm STILL fuming over this and it happened ten years ago.

[LindenGarcia18]

Not really gear, but my Piano.
My prize possession.
Not anything really expensive, but I loved it.
We just didn't have enough space for it, so I had to sell it.

Cool part is, that 2 years later, we moved into a bigger house.
I was looking on ebay, and saw it there!
Of course I bought it back
Couldn't live without it.

[Stel]

Walked into guitar store in maybe 1997, had TWO Travis Bean tb1000s. One koa, $325, the other red, $275. Went to the bank, but when I got back the next day, the guy had tacked $1000 onto each.

Had I not shown the interest I did they might have been mine. I knew Exactly what they were, He had no idea but must have researched a bit later after I left. I did not have the funds for either after that, and they were gone a couple days later. I still cry about those guitars, especially now that they would go for well over $5k apiece.

[monkeyxx]

Had my first fancy kebyoard, Nord Electro 2, stolen from a friend's house. All kinds of weird/bad emotions from that one. No tears though, per se.

[Oldone]

Pair of Neve 5033 EQs. Had to sell them or there was no Christmas for the family 5 years ago. That's the only hardware ever that I miss.

[hasbeen]

1958 Fender Precision stolen. Cry to this day.

[magicmike]

sold my behringer xm8500 mic. I really want another one now.

[ljefe]

I got an entire keyboard rig stolen, but that's not why I cried. I cried because I had to try to program the sounds on a Roland JV1080, quick! before the show started.

[leviathansounds]

Originally Posted by ljefe

I got an entire keyboard rig stolen, but that's not why I cried. I cried because I had to try to program the sounds on a Roland JV1080, quick! before the show started.

[hasbeen]

Originally Posted by magicmike

sold my behringer xm8500 mic. I really want another one now.

Start saving my friend!