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AndyTokai said:Five decades? Holy moly! You must have seen some rad guitars in your time!
I have made nearly sixty orbits around that big bright giant flaming ball of gas out there since I have been stuck here on this spinning rock we call Earth. That means I'm old. :lol:
By the time I graduated high school just over four decades ago, I had purchased & sold several guitars, and a couple of amps.
I wish I had those two amps (Marshall & Fender) because those things sounded great. I was a teenager then; that's my excuse. :lol: **** kids.
As far as guitars go the biggest thrills I had were likely attending the GSWGSs in Dallas during the 1980s. Every year the Japanese buyers were there with a lot of ca$h (USD) buying up all of the best examples of vintage Gibson, Fender, Martin, and Gretsch. I was witness to many 'deals' involving some of the most prized US made vintage guitars. It was all very interesting; it was basically like going to any 'flea market' with everyone just standing around two parties haggling out a deal, but in this case it was guitars that now command huge money if they ever hit the market today. I saw plenty of old original 'burst trade hands for just a few thousand USDs, and they all got carted off to Japan. Of course, we were all under the impression at that time that prices were WAY OUTTA reality but little did we know then where the vintage market would go. That's the way it was back in the 1980s at the Dallas show; it was something. Now, just imagine ALL of those old vintage Gibson, Fender, Martin, and Gretsch guitars from the 1950s & the 1960s that are still in Japan, that decades ago were bought in Dallas for what is now basically pennies on the dollar. Some of those buyers made out like bandits. 8)
I would be willing to bet I saw Kunio Kishida at more than one Dallas show :wink: and HOLY CRAP Batman, that guy has some really nice Les Pauls 8) among other vintage pieces.