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05-22-2006, 05:39 PM
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I wouldn't do it. It's not that hard to get a beater instrument that will play close enough to the real thing for audiences to not be able to tell the difference. I'd probably hesitate to take any amp made before 1990 or so on tour, depending on how sturdily it was made.
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05-23-2006, 11:33 AM
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depending on how good your road cases, climate controls and balls of steel are, I wouldn't trust vintage stuff on the road.
Bands like Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins or The Rolling Stones can afford to tote around their '59 Telecasters and '68 Les Pauls because they've got an ARMY of techs, expensive road cases (i.e. NOT skb), and checks and double checks. A $4k Strat isn't something you just wanna throw in the back of the van and drive to Toledo in during the winter.
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05-31-2006, 04:54 PM
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If you were immortal I would say save all that is vintage, but you're not so what are you saving it for? You won't be playing the stuff when you're dead and you can die at any moment.
Two options: 1. As a crippled (your hands) old man you can admire your vintage gear that you took care of all these years, slightly saddened that you can no longer play any of it. You can be happy that you didn't take it on tour and destroy it. (Don't worry, your family will pawn everything when you expire.) 2. You're an old man with no regrets. You took the shit on tour and you rocked it. Gear was meant to be played and not saved, and that's what you did. Gear isn't an investment, it's a luxury.
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06-01-2006, 01:02 PM
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yea, i like to think of gear as a tool, or tools. better time spent playing and practicing, less time worrying about inevitable scratches. its like peeps who keep their houses in pristine condition like some fufu museum, i just dont get it... it's not real.
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06-01-2006, 02:58 PM
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I think what we're getting at is that if you have a magic 1969 Super Lead that just sounds absolutely perfect when cranked and is your favorite amp to record, you'd be insane to drag it on tour when a reissue plexi head will do the job just as well. The audience will never be able to tell the difference, and in the din of what's happening on stage, you probably won't be able to either. If you can afford to have a super-expensive vintage amp, you can probably afford to pick up a reissue version that would be easily replaced.
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06-02-2006, 12:11 PM
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06-07-2006, 04:17 PM
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yea, cheap gear on stage, hehe, this reminds me of good ole kurdt cobain, how when nirvana went on tour, every city they would visit, they would go to a local guitar store and buy an el cheapo geetar, so when at the end of the concert, he could splinter to pieces the geetar he bought earlier that day. now thats a really good reason to bring junker gear on the road...
i wonder if jimi hendrix did the same thing, since he liked to pyro torch his geetars... mmm guitar destruction tasty...
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