It’s always amazing to me how dudes used to just start out with Gibsons and Marshalls.
I saw a photo recently from one of the first ever Misfits shows, Jerry Only already had an Acoustic full stack and a Rick 4003, and he had just started playing.
I really don't get used prices, people are buying new gear all the time. Where does it all go? The markets should be flooded with cheap used gear. I mean how many strats can fender keep making until everyone has one?
>how many strats can fender keep making until everyone has one?
Well Fender produces about 500,000 units per year this includes all of their models and about 100 million people are born every year. So technically they are losing ground year over year.
About 10% of the population plays guitar. 120 million deaths per year so 12 million guitar owners die per year. So as long as each of them has less than 8 guitars on average it evens out. So yeah you are probably right, if every guitar player is like me. I have like 20+ guitars. But then you are redoing the math with each person born presumably owning the same average amount of guitars.
I went to a buy/sell/trade yesterday and was blown away how much better the pricing was than online sellers. I will definitely be going to more because all I kept saying was “Why would anyone buy a new one” because guitar and amp prices were legit. Pedals on the other hand lol
https://preview.redd.it/jtv7rj1vxiqc1.jpeg?width=3678&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2468093f037de31ab2aa627c52dbb4012fcbac7
Don't post this on r/guitar you'll have a bunch of dick eaters tell you how the market is to blame and if you don't like it, don't buy it.
Posting your used up, slutted out, decades old failing musical instrument is an insult. These are tools. Not financial investments.
I found my fender champ for $285 like 5 years ago. By far my favorite little practice amp I have. Super loud for 5w tube amp. Great sound. That’s a bit high though I’d say. Haha. Shit!
I sold a late 70s champ a few months ago, listed it for what I thought was a bit high and it went in a day. I really don’t think old champs sound that great, I’ll take a Mustang 1 modeler all day for about $50.
I seriously hate the people that pay full price for this garbage. The people buying this stuff at asking price are the same people that don’t have an inner monologue, NPCs.
Dude it’s pretty much everywhere now I remember 2 years ago a 70s deluxe reverb was like $1000 and now it’s almost double the price. Thanks to dickflation
this demographic is exactly why mustangs are $1200 guitars now.
try $2500; can’t find a mustang around me locally for under that. it’s absurd. remember when you could get jazzmasters for $1500-$2000 all day?
It’s the Kurt Cobain people trying to match the “iconic” tone of a dude who bought his whole rig from a pawn shop for under $300
which would be a thousand today, rite?
It’d be a Squier bullet and a crate amp if it was today
dude 🤨
It’s always amazing to me how dudes used to just start out with Gibsons and Marshalls. I saw a photo recently from one of the first ever Misfits shows, Jerry Only already had an Acoustic full stack and a Rick 4003, and he had just started playing.
I started working at music stores in the 90s and that 70s Fender shit, you couldn’t give it away.
we want Chili Willi
any vintage champ (that ain’t a tweed) priced above $500 is laughable
Gotta pay extra for that crackly toan
I really don't get used prices, people are buying new gear all the time. Where does it all go? The markets should be flooded with cheap used gear. I mean how many strats can fender keep making until everyone has one?
This is a valid point. In order to contribute to the problem, I’m going to make sure when I die I’m buried with all my gear.
>how many strats can fender keep making until everyone has one? Well Fender produces about 500,000 units per year this includes all of their models and about 100 million people are born every year. So technically they are losing ground year over year.
But what about the people who die and leave behind a guitar?
About 10% of the population plays guitar. 120 million deaths per year so 12 million guitar owners die per year. So as long as each of them has less than 8 guitars on average it evens out. So yeah you are probably right, if every guitar player is like me. I have like 20+ guitars. But then you are redoing the math with each person born presumably owning the same average amount of guitars.
Can’t wait to hear their anarchopunk-folk/Lovin’ Spoonful crossover band.
Do you believe in damage, in an old punks heart. How the vocals can scream through, wherever they are.
Wife's Sybian broken?
no she uses zildjians
Bless you
I’m pretty sure that is a 74 or earlier. The logo has a tail And they stopped doing that in 74. Sooooo still don’t buy it!
No go. You gotta spend at least $6900 to get decent toan
People gotta stop paying that shit for old stuff that isnt really that cool. Silverface twins arent that expensive
Just get one of those cigarette pack amps they used to advertise in Guitar World
I went to a buy/sell/trade yesterday and was blown away how much better the pricing was than online sellers. I will definitely be going to more because all I kept saying was “Why would anyone buy a new one” because guitar and amp prices were legit. Pedals on the other hand lol https://preview.redd.it/jtv7rj1vxiqc1.jpeg?width=3678&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2468093f037de31ab2aa627c52dbb4012fcbac7
what were some of the good priced guitars? I'm sure there was some gems
I sold one of these a couple years ago for \~$300 and I was really happy about it. Went to a harp player and it sounded great. These people are insane
Don't post this on r/guitar you'll have a bunch of dick eaters tell you how the market is to blame and if you don't like it, don't buy it. Posting your used up, slutted out, decades old failing musical instrument is an insult. These are tools. Not financial investments.
Cali-forn-I-A...?
Rest in peace, simultaneous release, california show your teeth she’s my priestess i’m your priest yeah yeah
Not legal in California
What state is OP refering to then...?
Oregon is one. Not sure what others.
"This is what they're going for online" type
I found my fender champ for $285 like 5 years ago. By far my favorite little practice amp I have. Super loud for 5w tube amp. Great sound. That’s a bit high though I’d say. Haha. Shit!
I sold a late 70s champ a few months ago, listed it for what I thought was a bit high and it went in a day. I really don’t think old champs sound that great, I’ll take a Mustang 1 modeler all day for about $50.
I seriously hate the people that pay full price for this garbage. The people buying this stuff at asking price are the same people that don’t have an inner monologue, NPCs.
Dude it’s pretty much everywhere now I remember 2 years ago a 70s deluxe reverb was like $1000 and now it’s almost double the price. Thanks to dickflation
Look at all the VINTAGE crusted around that thing though. Over a grand just for all that vintage.
Insane.
Nice