It seems that the prices for classic electric guitars are now on the rise. According to Business 2.0 magazine the index for collectible guitars has gone up 80 % since the year 2000. That's far better than the index of paintings (up 20 %) or Dow Jones industrial average (up about 0 %).
The reason for this is that the baby boomers with spare cash are now buying the instruments that were played by their idols way back. 50's Stratos could go for like 40.000 bucks right now, and a 1960 Les Paul was sold for $192.000 dollars and a same type of a guitar manufactured only a year earlier went for $250.000.
What is excpected to be the next trend after these pre-70's classic models is actually early 80's heavy metal models made in the US: B.C. Rich, Jackson etc. You could easily make a good money on those babies, if you buy 'em now and wait a few years.
My metal shredding baby from the eighties is an Ibanez RG-750 from the year 1989. I guess I'll have to wait 5-7 years until those babies are worth a lot. But I ain't still gonna sell my baby, we go way back a long time...
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In fact, those original early eighties Charvel-guitars made in the legendary San Dimas workshop in California are already reeeaally sought-after and expensive. The guitars that Eddie Van Halen, guys from RATT, Steve Vai etc. played.
Yeah, those were the guitars I was dreaming of when I was about 14 years old, but all I could afford was a crappy Yahama at the time. Damn!
On the other hand, I am still waiting for my compeletely trashed and Heavy-Metallized 1974 Gibson SG-1 to increase its value from the 170 euros I paid for it around 1991... One day I will sell it and buy an SUV. Maybe.
yep, the 80s Charvels were hot. i know all about that!
back in the day my cousin's dad worked (and still does) in a music shop and customised all the jacksons and charvels that came to this country. so i got to see many axes that guys from all the HOT 80'S FINNISH METAL BANDS (!!) used. before they used them.
i dont know if many would consider that so cool, but it is what it is. but im really not so sure i would pay all that money for them. gibson flying v has always been the ultimate rock tool if you ask me. not that i ever owned one...
what I hated of those guitars was the floyd rose bridge, a trap. It took ages to change one string and you couldn't keep on playing with five, because it all went untuned.
On the other hand, with it you could make that laser-pistol sound that steve stevens made.
Jep, the floating tremolo system was an innovation that divided people. I used to like it a lot, because once the strings were locked and in tune, they stayed in tune no matter what...
What do you mean by the "laser-pistol sound"? Is it the same effect that comes when you push or hit the whammy bar down a bit and then abruptly let it go up again? That's a cool sound that resonates really fast like "trtrtrtrt"... . Add some delay and it's like honey to ears.
Another favourite trick was one that I got from Steve Vai: you point the whammy bar towards the end of the body of your guitar. That way when you push the bar down the sound actually goes up. It is impossible to pick strings in this position, so you must use hammer-ons and pull-offs to make any sound. But using this technique with straight pentatonic scale creates a nice "oriental" soundscape.
I'm so stoked on this subject that I had to post this link here:
http://www.chrisguitars.com/iban88rg750-bk.jpg
There's a pic of gtr just like my metalmachine...
nice, dude, very nice! that Ibanez really rocks. you still got that?
if you do, we seriously need start using some of those whammy bar techniques on Kriton beats. it would be like the ultimate revenge to the geeky turntablists and retro-synth fascists.
Just read today that a 1968 Strat was sold for 120,000 € or so in NYC. It was old and it was also a used one, and I'm not sure if it was in a mint condition.
Oh, and it was previously owned by some fellow named James Marshall Hen...Hendriksson...Hendrix, maybe?
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