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Post by mlrpa on Mar 4, 2008 12:34:11 GMT -5
Greetings! Time to polish up that crystal ball again.
Back in the early 80's, I bought three guitars one day. A '66 Gibson Melody Maker SG, a 67 Gibson ES330, and a Dan Electro Vincent Bell Coral Firefly. The total for those beasties? UNDER $500!!! Today, that purchase for those same guitars would be around the $7,500 mark.
So the question is this: What guitars do you think you buy today for cheap, will be tomorrows collectables?
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Post by Runewalker on Mar 4, 2008 12:42:31 GMT -5
Greetings! Time to polish up that crystal ball again. So the question is this: What guitars do you think you buy today for cheap, will be tomorrows collectables? None of today's generation will actually touch strings, but will buttons. |
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Post by sumgai on Mar 4, 2008 13:52:13 GMT -5
I can see it now.......
Sometime in 2061:
Master: Welcome to the Juilliard Conservatory, in what instrument are you interested?
Wannabe: I've got this ultra-cool GuitarHero Controller from 2008, and I need to go beyond what the game does for me.... I feel like I can really, you know, play music or sumpin'......
[clunk (body hitting floor in a faint)]
Master? Master?
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Post by ChrisK on Mar 4, 2008 18:22:35 GMT -5
Exactly the ones that I've already invested in.  (Psst, pass it on.)  |
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Post by newey on Mar 4, 2008 20:54:00 GMT -5
There's so much sameness to guitar designs nowadays. I suspect that, among the cheaper guitars one can buy, all the Strat clones, LP clones, etc. will never have much value 'cause there's so damn many of them. A future collector will want the "real deal" and not the clone, so the clones will be a dime a dozen. So I will take what is literally a WAG and say buy something unique among the cheapies if you want it to have some collectable value down the road. Maybe something like this: www.rondomusic.com/product1148.html |
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Post by ChrisK on Mar 12, 2008 18:52:59 GMT -5
Yeah, and what makes us think that the next generation will be interested in the toys of OUR youth? |
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Post by newey on Mar 12, 2008 19:19:22 GMT -5
It won't be the next generation, it'll be us, at age 108, our lives extended by medical advances, sitting in the assisted living facility's activity room, jamming away on our vintage Tanzanian-made Stratclones and griping about the lack of decent tone from modeling amps . . . We will be playing "Smoke On The Water" because that's the only tune we can all remember.  I might even be kidding. |
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Post by Runewalker on Mar 15, 2008 9:43:31 GMT -5
Strat, SG and Explorer Controllers!  |
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