Not a guitar, but a musical instrument story worth telling ...
I’ve wanted a Mesa Boogie rectifier amp since they came out in 1991.
I looked longingly at them in the music magazines ... so shiny! And so many knobs!
More knobs must be better, right? And cool musos were using them! So they must be cool!
At Xmas time, 1991, we were at Disneyland in Anaheim. We rode the greyhound bus (!) from Anaheim to Hollywood to visit the Mesa Boogie store on Sunset to check them out .. but they didn’t sell to overseas customers. I recall they were $1299 USD at the time. Probably Duel Rectifiers I guess.
Now they are $2399 USD over there (they still wouldn’t sell to me direct, I was in the Hollywood store a few months ago) and here they are $3999 NZD ... so I’ve always had cheaper tube Marshalls, Laneys, and now the Blackstar HT Metal (which is a really cool metal tube amp)
Last week, a slightly used Triple Rectifier popped up for sale at around $1000 less than what it was worth at a pawnshop... I was around there like a zip and here we have it. Got it for $1400 NZ which was a sweet deal.
I don’t play guitar so much these days - but now I have the coolest office around, with Recifiers, guitars and pinballs ahoy!
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