Some things you end up missing...

Last night I was shopping for that little Marshall practice amp online and one thing leading to another, I managed to trace back the first Marshall amp (not the actual amp, mind you) that I'd ever used.
 

 
Marshall Master Lead Combo like this one. It was actually my first real guitar amp - I'd played on crappy Radio Shack amps and rented ones up to that point. No tubes, obviously, but it sounded quite good as far as I can remember. Bought it used, can't remember how much it was. 
 
A few years later, I moved to Montreal w/ my first wife, money was pretty tight and I had just gotten my 59 Bassman, so I though I could do w/o the Marshall. I walked through the city from pawn shop to pawn shop carrying this thing on my shoulder. Because one of the pots was rather noisy, I got a big $50 for it. I didn't really have a choice but to take it at that point.
 
It's one of the few things I regret in my life. I'm never selling another instrument or amp again. Even my POD, I regretted selling - but later bought one back. And a little 10w Valvestate amp I sold, I ended up regretting it afterwards too - I'd cut some pretty cool demos w/ it. Living in an apartment, using the Bassman wasn't even an option. I remember doing all kinds of crazy experimentations to get different kind of sounds, putting the amp here or there, putting the mic in the back, throwing a comforter on it - anything, really...
 
It's actually one of the reasons why wanted to get the little practice amp - because I remember how much fun I had jamming w/ that thing - just a couple of knobs, no fx, no modeling, nothing.
 
Any piece of gear you guys wish you could have back?

craigb
I'm not even going to start... *Sigh*

 
This!

I miss
 
my Rick
my first P-Bss
my EB-3 (not my EB-0)
every hoop shot I've eve made
 

64 Super Reverb, 59 Tremolux, 61 Princeton, 61 Deluxe, 68 Princeton, 69 Bluesbreaker. There's more, and I don't remember them all. Guitars I don't regret so much because I never had anything really outstanding. I only got the cool amps because I could fix them. Including the 72 & 73 Marshall 1959 heads and matching slant cabs. I could never get the volume above 1 or 2, who needs 11.

I miss all my stuff that's still in storage in Denver, especially my '59 Shopsmith.

The worst part is it's not really gone. I just can't use it.

Not one thing that I can think of.
Everything that I chunked and replaced turned out to be
a good move
 
Right now the only thing on the fence is Cakewalk.
I'll be glad to get rid of X2 and if the replacement isn't a good move
my next shot won't be with Roland. I've been patient for to long anyway.
 

craigb
Inpatient wood workers have trouble counting to ten.

You are absolutely correct...with X2 one is an inpatient or an outpatient.

Boy this is an old photo, I must have been 16-17 years old at the time.  Taken in Northern Minnesota, sitting in our speed boat in the Spring, just as the ice was about to come off, or had just come off the lake.  You can barely see it in the background.  If I remember correctly, I was prepping the boat and got tired of messing with it.
 
There were several guitars and amps that I have sold over the years that I wish I still had.  This was a 1963 Rick.  I just found out from the original owner a couple of years ago; the actual age of this guitar.  I found him on Face Book and shot this picture over to him.  He wished he had not sold it to me for his first Gibson Les Paul Custom; though he loves his LP.  I bought the Rick for $200 way back then.  I think I sold it for around $300 around 1988.
 
Another guitar that I wish I had not sold was my first Les Paul Standard in Vintage Sunburst.  I believe it was a 1983 and that I bought it my third year of college; about the time I got involve in a college band.  Oddly enough, I have never been able to find a picture of that guitar, nor do any of my buddies from college seem to have one of me with it.
 
 

mike_mccue
 
I've had some shoes that fit so well that when they wore out I really missed them.

 
Those were the ones you wore with them white sox no doubt.
 

mike_mccue
I got lucky with guitars... the older boys that taught me how to select guitars taught me to never buy one you would not want to own 30 years later.

So you sell them when they are 31 years old? 

The only thing I truly miss is my Saga II Es-335 copy. Forgot I had pawned it and by the time I remembered it was too late. Probably one of the dumber things I've done in my life.
 
Everything else I got rid of for a reason and I really didn't need anymore. My old drums were cool but I couldn't play them or store them anymore. My SG was nice enough but wasn't worth having that much money tied up in. My old cabs and heads are too big and not worth the hassle and my current amp more than covers my needs and actually sounds better. Everything else was just junk or I still own it.
 
Just things, man... just things.

Yeah, it's probably the whole "putting down roots" thing. I was more interesting in acquiring stuff and perhaps pined a bit more for long lost gear when I had more room and thought I had my life sorted. Now that I'm kind of floating in the breeze again (even if it is against my will and better judgment) the thought of extra stuff just makes my back hurt. I don't see myself being truly settled again for at least another couple moves. It's ticking me off frankly but as far as gear is concerned I'm a lot more educated and disciplined in regards to what will be useful and how not to waste my money on crap. I have so little cash to put towards stuff that when a purchase is actually made it is something that is ridiculously useful and cost effective.
 
For example my main guitar now which I purchased used just before I built the new DAW is an early-mid 90s Yamaha Pacifica "Strat". I tested a bunch of them when they first came out and any time I saw one I would always pick it up and fiddle around a bit. They were really nice to play and that always stuck in my mind (the newer I think probably aren't as nice but I don't think I've handled one). This one had been completely modded as a hot rod "Superstrat" with Seymours (bridge humbucker/single coil, hot rail and some other fancy single coild I forget the name of at the middle neck positions) and the fancy push button switching system. The electronics alone are worth $300 and I snagged it for $300 online sight unseen. It just seemed to call to me so I took the chance. Even came with an unannounced hardshell case which was a surprise. Well the thing is awesome and completely replaces a bunch of other guits I had gotten rid of and/or wanted to get rid of AND adds some serious hard blues tones to my sound if I want which had always been lacking in my gear. It's not PERFECT for everything but it's REALLY good for almost anything. It needs a new nut and I'd like to get some lock tuners and maybe a new bridge and get the push pots cleaned (the pots are fine but the buttons are a little sticky) so with all that I'll probably be sinking another $300 into it. $600 for one axe to do the job of many when all is said and done. Much better than some of the vintage, super fragile and ridiculously expensive stuff I've owned and more versatile.
 
Sure I'd like to own nicer guits again but really I can only play one at a time and the money is better spent on the recording stuff and... well eating.
 
Sorry... kind of started rambling there but yeah, I guess after years of owning lots of crap it's a little liberating going minimalist. Hope you've been well. Cheers.

Pacificas, Tokai's and Agiles are all really nice (I know people who own all of these and none have a negative comment).  I know someone who's a Tokai dealer and he just posted some pics of new stock last month.  Here's a couple examples of the Les Paul styles (I really like the Strat styles too):
 

 

 
And here's a Agile or two.
 

 

 

Here's a Tokai 335 style Beepster.
 

Love the Lucille's Beep.  Black is always one of my favorite finishes.  I have thought about getting one as well.  Last year on my 50th, I bought this Epi 335 Dot.  I ordered it online through Guitar Center, unseen untouched.  Scared the living daylights out of me to do that, but figured, what the hay.... if I don't like it I will return it.  I loved it right out of the box.  
 
I had a Gibson Classic 57 plus pick up laying around that I took out of another guitar a while back.  It had a chrome cover.  I took a utility knife, cut the soder joints on the back and pulled the cover off.  Then, I bought a gold cover to go with the rest of the hardware.  I took the Epi pick up out and then struggled at putting the new Gibson in.  I have done countless Les Paul's in my life, the hollow body Dot threw me though because there is no access to the back.  In retrospect, I should have tied a string to the old one when I pulled it out.  I have a regular guitar tech that I take them to for set ups any way....so I just hauled it into him.  He charged me, like, $30.00 to install it.  I watched him and it took him, maybe 10 minutes and made me look like a fool.  Obviously, he had done this quite a few times with 335 style guitars.
 
This guitar now plays and sounds every bit the real deal.  I actually play it more than my Paul's.  The tone was just a tad bright compared to the Paul that it came off.  The mahogany back of a Paul must darken the tone a little.  Simple fix is that you dial the tone knob back to 8-9 and it's perfect.  I need to pick up another Gibby neck pick up now and complete the transition.  I figure that I will watch Ebay when I am ready.  The final tweak that I made was to buy a new pick guard for it.  I peeled the "E" off the pick guard, but the glue they use welds a bond to the plastic and leaves an embossed image in the plastic.  I just simply bought another after market pick guard and replaced it.
 
 

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craigb
I'm not even going to start... *Sigh*

 
This!

Me too....