CL vintage guitars

[Guildedagain]

The good old days are returning to Craigslist, and you can understand why. Like why someone has to pay a ridiculous but exorbitant tax just for buying an old used guitar, and in turn the ultimate slap in the face, to be taxed for having the intelligence to have hung on to to a guitar for 20 years while watching the value of cash money plummeting. I bought my '74 Strat for $1500, now worth a lot more, but money's worth a lot less. To be fair, you'd have to adjust the purchase price for inflation to gauge what actual "profit" there is rather than a simple and completely meaningless but advantageous subtraction.

And this is why CL is just simply busting out buslting with vintage guitars, albeit at higher prices, silly if Gibson/Fender, but a lot of eye candy and trade possibilities abound.

This morning, just the tip of the iceberg, but a Guild ;[]

 

[Guildedagain]

I can feel the parking lot meets coming back, wind in your face, running an amp from a Honda EUi1000 generator to see if it works.

This was a good day for me, traveled halfway to coast and back to trade for Les Paul Custom for a '73 Orange half stack.

Two deals in same town at different ends of town, sold a priceless amp head and 4x12 cab Fender never made and then went to the other gas station and traded a 2 p'up Custom another amp because I had a 3 p'up I liked better.

When I left.

When I came back, score of a lifetime. Dude in top level Seattle band, the amp was coveted by everyone in the other bands around town with a stack of dibs, swore me to secrecy on the trade. The amp was really something too, I remember him telling me "when those original Plessey caps get warm" an OR80 with original Mullards. The amp and cab both turned out to be much too wild for me, sold the cab 1st, kept the head a while longer and then gone. A JMP50 I could play all day and my ears would be fine, but the Orange was way too brilliant, even the speakers, too clear.

Cabs were 13 ply Baltic Birch, much deeper than Marshall, with skids, no wheels. A pair since new, near mint, holy grail amp/cab.